faap. 3 1. Art ExpVition upon the E'boke of j o s. 4'erí, 24.. 5 17 good thingon earth my hope. One of the Greeke tratiftaters rem ce.Agtav feu- ders; It lhave madeg ld my fafety, enyfecuritie ; or the caufe achy Z'¡ra farrccur I was not cf,aid. As if he had fayd, /did n; t put f eare awayfrom niinur pa..ument, mebecaufe 1 had vouch gold, cr worldly goads,.b6ut.me. I' did not Symach: thinbe myMire fafe or cut clam reach j cdanger, bicavfe I was rich. TheSeptuagint have an elegant a, d a very fignificant rendrirg, though not fo clearelycomplying with the original text as ours ; If 1 have made galdmy wife, or, ifI have' married gold. Suc't is it STaÿa ?,pu the fpirit ofa worldlyman towards worldly things, that he cloth o:ov tits yev not only love them, but is in love with them. As a man doch not ba' s, io;x> only love her whom he would marry (to he doch any friend) a;!ridin nmen sin but he is in love with her and is refllcfs till he in;oyeth her. Yea Tod in eirú I may fay, worldly men are married toworldly things, not only Remameadurn as to a wife ( who fhould be in fub'e&ion toher husband) but as v'derur Pro to their husband towhom theyare fubjed. They may jufily be 1,* called, Wives to riches, and riches their husband , who are at the t lncl will and commandofriches, Worldly men are fo, more then the wife is or ought tobeat the will and command of her htuband. But I (hall not flay upon that tranflation,which though it depart not from the (cope of the text; yet from the words it sloth. rind therefore I (hall follow our owne which is cleare to both. IfI have madegoldney hope. The word rendred hope orexpe£lation, fignifies alto the reines or bowells. One of the Rabbins gives this reafoh ofit becaufe Lí err pro= the bowells or reines are the feat of the affections; fròmwhich as ?"; to 'zm iJ.a .l our fares fo our hopes are formed. (Pfal. 7.9.) The righteous e, ,,,,ej b4; - God trieth the hearts and reines, that is, the whole inner man of des a ¡Yuan, every man, his thoughts and dèfres, his hopes and aymes. David 'rule fir us beggs ofGod to make this difcovery ofhim. in the fame words ID t'ro ma;ur. [te (13 jducta ju- ( pal. 26. 2.) Examineme O Lord rove me try my reines, Merca and myheart ; As if he had fayd, Lord I am willing-to he tryed to the turnoff, and that the bent and inward motions ofmy feure may appeare to(from which I know they are not,cannot be hid) thine all Icing eye. Nor is there any thingwhich lycs moreclofe and ferret in the bofome ofman then his hope doch ; And looke what any man earneffly hopes for, his mind is often turning to, if not atwayes fixed upon. IfI ( faith Sob) have made Gold in, hope ; that is, ifmy mtnde bath been upon it , or in the longing expedition of it. 13ope
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