Chap. 3 t, Ax .Expofttiori upon the Bock° of j o B. T/erl. 29. that thoufloosie!? on the other fide, in the day that/hangers carried awayghieforces, and forreiners entred into his gates, and call lots upon t erutalem, even thou wall as one of diem ; that is, Thou waft as one of them that had ahand in his ruine. And hence that prayer of the Church ( t 37. 7. ) Remember O Lord, the children ofEdom, in theday of 7erufalem; solo Paid, rate it, rafe it, even to the.foundation thereof; They did not rafe,it thetnfelves,but they encourraged thofe who did it. Thus they were as one of them ; And the Prophet fhewes further,how they were as one of them, by rejoycing, and by being wel pleated to fee their b;e- threnearned intocaptivitie ( v. t 2.) That fhotoldeyt not havere. »yeaover the children f fudah in the day cf their defiruRlioee This their rejoycing rendred them felferevengers, though they didnot fo much as Touch their brethren. Tobe envionfly trou bled at the good of others, and to he ìejoycingly'pleafed at the butt ofothers, are alike finfull. David prophecied the def°ruEti- onof Saul his enemy (r Sam. 26. to.) As the Lord lived b, the Lord ¡hall /mite him, or hie day(hall come todie, or he Pall defcead intobattei andperi/h ; that is, He ¡hall eyther dy a naturall death, or a violent death, eyther by fotne immediate hand of Godupon him, or by the fword of the enemy. Bur, that David was not pleafed nor rejoyced at thedeftrud ionof Saul, the Funeral ele- gie or lamentation whichhe made at the report ofhisdeath, and the fevere punifhment ofhimwho hoped for a reward for report- ing himfclfe ( though only in cUttefie and commiferation) the authourofit, doe fuficienely declare (2 Sam. r. ) But youwill fay, Maywe not rejoyce at thedeftrudion ofan Enemy, why not? Did not Mofes and all I(rael re oyce with tinging at the deftrudionof Pilo-oak (Exod, t 5.) Then fang Mofes and the children ofIfrael this fong unto theLord, andBrake, faying, Iwill fing unto the Lord, for he hark triumphed gloriaufly ; the herfe and his rider bath be cal into the Sea. And David him. felfe (i Sam. 25. 39. ) blefeth God for the death of 1ildbal, who had only beenuncivil! to him ; `73iofedbe the Lord (faith he) that loath pleaded thecaufeofmy reproach from the hand ofNabal, and loath kept his fervant from evill for the L,rd loath returned the zvickednes fr Nabal upon his svine bead. Now to bleffe God for any thing, is to put it among our bleffings, which is an argument of fome kind ofrejoycingin it, And ( Heft. 8, a5, 16 ) Wheq the 605
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