Chap. 30, An Expofition upon the Book o f J o B. Ve f , 3 t. _2 3 downe, yet hold up their heads in mirth and jollitie. The Lord loves to fee us beare our Croffe, but he cannot endure to fee us make (port with it, or make flight of it. IfGod once perceave us driving away our forrow with our harp andorgan, or drown ing itinwine, hee can quickly turre that wine into water, and drowne the found ofour harpe with mourning, and the plcafant tunesof our organwith the voyce ofweeping. The Jewes found this made good upon them ; They would not fit dowre,and weepe over the,firis which they had committed in frrufalem; but by the rivers cf Babylon, there they fate dowre and wept, ( P¡al. 137. t. ) And what did they then with their harpes? They hung there up upon willows in the midfb thereof ; they had littlemind to their mufick in that forrowlull day ; yea when the Babylonians who carried them away captives, required of them a long , they anfwered, Hem the!! wee fing ? And they did not anfwer, Hotr/lsall'wee fing a prcphanefang in afl'rarge Land, but bow fhallWee ring tie Lord;Tong in affrange Land, or, in the Landof ,banger: They whowill not hangup their harpes and forbeare their Fong in their ovine Land,when their fins call them to mourning, may Toone be forced to both by the cry of their mifery in a ftrange Land, yea though their enemies call them to finging. Againe Wee may fuppofe that 70b put away his mufick, his harpe andorgan, nor only as being unleafonable, but irkefome and troublefome tohim, in that time of his trouble. His harpe and organ gave a harfh found, andgrated his Bare, when he was in that condition ; All mufrcke is cut of tune to an aflifled joule, 't is grievous to them that are grieved; outward mirth cloth often ircreare rather then abate our borrows. TheScripture is full to that poyne, ( Pro. 25.20) As he that taketh away agarment in coldweather, and viooeger upon Nitre, fo ie he that fingeth fangs unto an beavieheart. -A garment taken away in cold weather, makesthe perfon colder from whom 'tis taken; And vinegar be- ing cold and moyft, dothbut exafperate and draw out the fharp- neffe of Nitre, which is hot and dry ; Thus a heavy heart by a kind of Antiperiftafis, is mademoreheavy by adelightful! bong; even as (on the contrary ) that hot and fiery vapour which is in a cloud, is more enraged and breakes out into thunder and light- ning, when'tiscompaffed about with and more daftly pent in 0 o z by
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