Chap. 31. Ax expolTtiart upon the 'look of J o B. Vert. 24. 5 t 9' red (as Solomon fpeakes in the Scripture laft named) maketh the heart Gcke,furely then when hope dyes, or (as Zophar fpeakes, Chap. r r. ao.) is as the giving up of the ghoft, the heart muff needs dye too. Now, when lob faith, IfIhave made Cold my hope, &c. He utterly difclaimes,as any filch eftimationofit, that it could doe great things for him, or make him a happy man, fo that he had any longing de fire after ir, or that he ufed any extreame earneft- nes of endeavours toattaine ir, or that he was vent and troubled' in minde when by his moderateendeavours he could not attaine it. lob underftood wel enough the worth and ufeofGold he wel knew howmany advantages it brings, yea how potent it is in the affaires ofStates and Kingdomes as wel as benefici:til to pri- vate familyes;'yer he knew he fhould have made more ofit,then it is worth, or can be worthy of, if he had made it his hope, and therefore he profeffeth ; IfI have madegold my hope, &c. Hence obferve. Firft , Thenaturall man makesgold or earthly things his [cope and hope. He would live to grow rich, and lade himfelfewith thick clay. What this godly man profeffeth he did not, that anatural! man cloth, and 'cis his:nature todoe it. He that is ofthe earth ú earth- iy, and fpeakesh oftheearth ( Job. 3. p. ) For out of the aboun- dance of the heart the mouth fpeaketh. The words of a man are the image of ins thoughts ; that the thoughts of Natural! men are earthly, or hue' ofthe Batch we learne from another Scripture (Tfal. 49, t r.) Their inward thought to that their houfes fball continuefor ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, &c. And what are:their houfes but heapes of earth and the beft fur.. niture of them, Gold and flyer but refined earth. The Apoftle (t Tim. 6.9. ) gives the fame chara&er of the natural! man ; he will be rich ; That's his refólve, and the bent of his fpirit , that he lives to and lives for. What he hath is little or nothing to him, unleffe he bath more ; and that more fatisIeth him no more when he bath ir,then the littledid which he had before. 134 lievers have another bent, We, faith the Apostle (a C,r.4. t 8:) locke not at the things which arefeene, but at the things which arenot f cone,. that is, not at naturallsand temporalh,but at fpiritualls and eter- nails;theft, not thofe. areour ayme or the marke (fo the word: figra?
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