An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

That is, to liberty and prosperity, which are in Scripture compared to a broad place, where a man hath room enough. Thou hast known my Soul in adversity (say h David, Psal. 31.7, 8.) and hast not shut me up in the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large Room, that is, in a prosperous condition. Thus Elihu ⟨p. 282⟩here promiseth on Gods behalf, He would have removed thee out of a strait, into a large place, Where no straightness is;

That is, to liberty and prosperity, which are in Scripture compared to a broad place, where a man hath room enough. Thou hast known my Soul in adversity (sai h David, Psal. 31.7, 8.) and hast not shut me up in the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large Room, that is, in a prospe•ous condition. Thus Elihu ⟨p. 282⟩here promiseth on Gods behalf, He would have removed thee out of a streight, into a large place, Where no streightness is;

¹That's a broad place indeed. No straightness implieth greatest enlargement, or enlargement to the uttermost, not only of need, but desire. A broad place, where there is no straightness, is full liberty, or fill of liberty. A man may be in a very good, in a very free condition, and yet have some straits. To be in so good a condition, as to have no straits at all, is the top and perfection of freedom. And surely, The full attainment of such an enlargedness, is the reward of the next life, not the enjoyment of this life. The way of the wicked,² in this life, is most strictly broad; the way of the righteous, in this life, is broadly strait, and endeth in a broadness of everlasting blessedness. God at last will remove all his out of a strait, into a broad place, where there is no straightness. Hence,