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Jdenly » I curſed o his habitation p. k I have oft obſerved, itin my experience. Having ſeverly re- buked Job for his tranſports of Paſhon, and intemperate Speeches :gainſt God, he now returns to his former Argument, apd proves | that ſuch dreadful] and deſtruQtive Judgements of God do nor befall | the righteous, but the wicked, as be obſerved, chap. 4. 7, 8. Withal 1eanfwersan objeftion concerning the preſent and ſeeming pro- [perity of the wicked, which he confeſſeth that he himſelf had ' 'ometimes obſerved. 7 7, e. The wicked man,who is quite deſtitute of true, z. e, of ſpiritual and heavenly wiſdom. »» Not only pro« } ſperous for the preſent, bur,as it ſeemed, firm and ſecure for the fu. cure, being ſtrongly fertified with Power and Riches, and Children :60, ſo as there was no appearance nor danger of a change. » In a moment, beſides and before mine, and his own, and all other mens expeQtation. 0 Either, 4. I judged thar he was a curſed Creature, notwithſlanding of his Proſperity, and [ foreſaw and foretold ir, by the Rules of Scripture, or the direCtion of Gods Spirit, that he would certainly ſooner or laterbe ſtript of all his Bleſlings and have Gods Curſe fall heavily upon him. Or rather, 2. I ſaw and percei- ved by theevent which followed his Proſperity, that he wasa Man accurſed of God. For he ſpeaks not ig-theſe words of what his eſtate conſtantly was even inthe midſt of his happineſs, though even then he was really accurſed ; but of what it was'by a ſudden change. p | Or, as the Hebrew word ligniſies, hw pleaſant or commogious habitati- on, perſons or things in it, or belonging to ir, being comprehended in that word by an uſual Metonymy.
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q Whoſe gteatneſs and happineſs he deſigned in all his en- terpriſes ſuppoſing that his Family was and would be eftabliſhed for ever. 7 7, e. Are expoſed to great dangers and calamities in this life, and can neither preſerve themſelves, nor the great inheritance which their Fathers get and leſt. for them. Thus to be far frem peace,Lam. 3;17. Is to.be involved indeſperate troubles, 55 e. In the place of Judicature ; ro which they, are brought for their offen- ces, and where they will Pro = hn wage and few crno Friends ; partly becauſe being wickedly Educated, ard rruſting to their own
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F. and partly becauſe thoſe many perſons whom their powerful Fa- thers defrauded or oppreſſed, do ſeek for Juſtice, and the reco- very of their Rights, which they eafily obrain againſt ſuch perion« as plainly declared by their Aftions that they neither feared God, nor reverenced Man,and therefore were hated by all ſorts of men. 5 They can find no Advocats nor Afſiftants, who are either able or willing to help them ; But like 1bmae!, as their hand was formerly againft every man, ſo now every Man's hand is againſt tzem,
5 Whoſe harveſt « the hungry » eaterh up,and tak- eth it even out of the thorns z,and the * robbersz ſwal-
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u which they now juſtly and confidently expe to reap after all their coſt and labour for that end, but are fadly and fudden]y diſappointed ; Which is a great aggravation of their miſery. x 2. e. The Poor, whoſe neceſſities make them greedy and ravenous to car it all up ; and from whom he can never recover 1t,nor any thingin recompenſe of it. y i.e. Our of the Fields, notwithſtanding the ſtrong thorn Hedges, wherewith it 1s incloſed and fortified, and all other dangers or difficulties which may be in their way. They will rake it, though they be ſcratched and wounded by the Thorns a- bout it. 2 So called from their long Hair, which ſuch perſonsnou- riſhed, either becauſe of their wild and ſavage kind of life, which made them negle& the trimming of their hair and body: Or, that they might look more terribly, and ſo affright all thoſe who ſhould indeavour to oppoſe them : Or, the thirſty, as the word may ſignifie from another root. And ſo it anſwers well to the hungry, in the former branch «, Greedily, and as there is no hope of Recover-
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duſt d, neither doth trouble ſpringout of the ground ;
b Or, For, or rather, Becauſe. So tie following words may con- tain 2 reaſon why he ſhould ſeek unto God, as he exhorts him, v, 8. Or, Surely, asthat Particle is oft uſed. And ſo it isa note of his proceeding to another Argument. ©c Or, Intquity ; as this werd oft ſignifies,and of this the following Sentence is true. And fo this firſt branch ſpeaks of ſin, and the next branch of trouble, which is the fruit of fin : And both fin and rrouble are faid to come from the ſame Spring. Burt this word ſignifies alſo, affii#:on, or miſery, or trouble, as Pſal. 90. 19. Prov. 12. 21 Which ſeerns moſt proper here, both
becauſe it is ſo explained by the fallowing words zrouble ; and again trouble, wv. 7: the ſame thing being repeated in ſeveral words, as is uſual in holy Scripture,and becauſe ri greatrhing which troubled J0b, and the chief matter of theſe Diicourſes was Job's Afi tions, not his Sins. « Ir ſprings not up by chance,as Herbs which grow of their own accord out of the Earth : Or, ir comes not from Men or Creatures here below, bur ir comes from a certain and an high- er caule, even from God, 3nd that for man's fins, and therefore thou ſhouldeſt ſeek to him for redreis, as it follows, wv. 8.
7 Yet man is born unto || trouble e, as f the ſparks fly upward Ff.