;fi } 34 Îh.ap.3o: ,o Expofition upon the Book of Jos. Veg.!, brings fcarcity and want ofbread, both uponNations, families, and perlons ; moftly, they who abound moft in Idleneffe,ebound only in wants. The famine of thefe vile perlons in the Text, arofe from, or was caused by their Idleneffe. Theydid not live in a Land where bread wasnot to be had, yet they had no no bread to uphold their lives. The famine was not national but perfonal, and they br,:Light it upon themfelves by their negle&ofduty and floath- fulneffe, either in or unto bufines. For want acid famine they were folitary. 7cb curling the time of his birth, faith, ( Chap. 3.7.) Let that night be folitary. We may confider this word, fief, in gene- ral], fecondly, more particularly ; in general] it notes any fad or forrowfull condition ; as if it were laid, For want and famine they were very fadand melancholy ; we put in the marginofour I3;b!es, They were darke at the night, that is, their fpirits were darke ; when they had brought this mifery upon themfelves by their finne and wickedneffe, then their minds were mopifh and wofully benighted with black feares and phancies. Hence note ; When graceles men have brought want upon themfelves, as to the things of the world, they are in want of all other Com- forts and contentments. When they want bread, they want all ; when they want the light, or good things ofthis life, they are as darke as the dark- neffe of death. He that bath not, nor delires to have the light of Godscountenarce, mutt needs be in darkneffe, when he bath nor, or cannot have corne and wine. Thus fuch are defcribed { Ifa. 8.2 r.) Andthey (hall paffe tkorow it hardly hefteadand hungry, ( andwhat JIM( they doe ? ) and it Jhall come to paffe, that when they ¡ball be hungry, they ¡ball fret themfelves, and Çurfe their King, and their God, and look upward. They fha11 look upward with their eyes, while their hearts hang down. wards,
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