I 04 4 Commentary upon the Gafßel Chap.' 6. becaufe we a! e !hors. A fhort walk is a long journey to feeble Ifa.54 7,8. knees.. It is but for a moment in his anger that God hides his face from his, though it fhould be during life ; he hath an eternity of time to reveal hiskindneffe in.. And to fay that God bath caft you off, becaufe he hathhid his face from you, is (faith one ) a fallacie Ch.r* G ghr, fetcht out ofthe devilsTopicks. When the Sunne is eclipfed, fool- .c, ifh people think it will never recover light, but wife men know it will: and at fuch a. time though the earth want the light ofthe. Sin, yet not the influence thereof : So neither are the Saints at any time without the power,heat andvigorous influenceofGods grace, . when the light and comfort of it is intercluded. Verfe i 8.. We cannot tell what hefaith] We know here but in part : theggreateft part ofour knowledge is the leaft part ofour. Aug. ignorance, faith one. Mans heart,faith another, may be compared to a veffel, themeanes to a pipe, the fpirit ofGod to the wheele that beats the water into thepipe : the Minifter is the fervant . that opens the cock. And then the reafon why we know but in part, is, either the cock alwayes runs not, or not alwayes in the fame meafure And fometimes our veffels are filledwith other things, (as the Apoftles here were with worldly grief, and the conceit of anearthly kingdom) and fo they run over : and ufually our veflèls run over, and lofe what we received by the means. Verfe 19. Now Kw, knew that they Were,&c. ] Hegracioufly prevents their requefts, fo he doth ours often ; And ufually in. Scripture,the anfiwer is given,the queftionconcealed.. God thereby providing for mens infirmity , who are ready to ask fuch odde_ . gneftions, as theDifciples here do, to the difcovery of their own dullnefle. Verfe 20.. re 'hallweep and lament] So long as ye abide in this ii Y.CIXeedl valley oftears, as the Septuagint render that, Pfal. 84. E.. In hoc "CCV erv"- exilio, in hoc ergafNo , in hac peregrination, in hac valle lachry va marut:, as Bernard hath it. My tears have been my meat, faith David,, PfaI. 42. 3. alluding to the Hart , which being purfued, fheds tears.. Thefej in ftead ofgemmes,. were the ornaments of. Davids bed, faith Chryfaiome.. The Churches eyes are as the pools ofHeJhbon, ever glazedwith teares of compunftionorcorn- Cant 7.5. pafïìon. Tertullianfpeaketh of himfelf, that he wasborne to no- thing elfe, but forrow and mourning. ef1thanafius, by his tearer, . as by the bleeding of achaft vine,cured the leprofieofthat tainted. age, Hierome writingof his own life, faith, that there were fur-. rows.
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