An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

Secondly, When Job speaks of Kings, and Counsellors and Princes, these great men of the world, he showeth us what their study and business for the most part is in the world, it is about worldly things; They build desolate places, they have gold, they fill their houses with treasure; These are their employments, the current of their cares and endeavours runs out this way. Hence observe,

Secondly, When Job speakes of Kings, and Counsellours and Princes, these great men of the world, he sheweth us what their study and businesse for the most part is in the world, it is about worldly things; They build desolate places, they have gold, they fill their houses with treasure; These are their employments, the current of their cares and endeavours runs out this way. Hence observe,

That the thoughts of the greatest and wisest of the world, are usually but for and about the world, The poor receive the gospel, and the rich receive the world. As a godly man is described by his faith, Abraham believed God: By fear, by uprightness, by justice, as Job in the first chapter of this Book, by meekness, ⟨p. 419⟩as Moses, &c. by the heavenliness of their spirits and conversations: Our conversation is in Heaven, Phil. 3.20. So worldly men are described by their proper studies. Kings, Counsellors and Princes, build Palaces, gather riches, heap up gold. They buy, they sell, they build, they plant, they eat, they drink, as the worldly world is pictured, Luk. 17.27, 28. In the 17th. Psalm, great men are called, the men of the world, as if they were for nothing but the world, or all for the world; as if all their provisions were laid in for this world, so it follows, who have their portion in this life, ver. 14. It is a sad thing to have received our portion, It is said of the rich man, Son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things, thou hast had thy portion. In