Chap. 3á. an Expofition upon the Boo/(of J o B. ' Vert. a /and the foules which he bath made. This is a comfortable truth / with refpe& both toNations, and Perfons,both to the cafe of the Church of God in general, and of every believer in particular. The Apoille Peter havingcounfelled the aff3.ióed to humble them- [elves under the mighty handofGod (IPet. ç. 6.) addes this en- couragement (in the next words) to do fo, that be may exalt you in due time : though not in your time,nor at your day,theday when you would havehim do it ; yet he will do it in time,and in due time,that is,when it (hall be moil fit andberl for you. Thus he appeared to and for Job in the Text, when the forrowes of his heart were enlarged, and when he had moil need of fuch an ap- pearance. The Lord knows how at any time, and when 'Lis the moil proper time,to relieve his fervants. Then The Lord anfwcred Job. The word here ufed is Jehovah ; and feveral of the Learned take notice, that it is here ufed with a fpecial fignìficancy for in the difcourfes of lob and hisfriends throughout this Book, other namesof God are, if not univerfally, yet mo(ily ufed, as E lfhad- dai, Eloah, &c. In the firfl Chapter indeed, where God is fpo- ken of by the divine Hiflorianor facred Penman of this Hiflory, . he is named Jehovah, as alto infome other fuch like places ; but in thebody of the difpute not fo : And two reafonsmay be given of it.. Firll, The name Jehovah imports the Being of God and therefore God himfelf, being about to fpeak of his giving a Be- ing to the whole Creation, and to feveral forts of creatures, he is moll properly reprefented by his name Jehovah, which, as it im- plyeth that he is the Fir(i Being, the Fountain of his own Being, or that he is of himfelf, fo,that he gives a Being to all things, and that inhim (as the ApoRle told the great Philofophers of A- thens , _AEts r 7.) we live, andmove, and have our being. Secondly, Lord (though he came in a Whirle-wind, 'yet) manifefled himfelf in a clearer light to Job, than ever he had done before. Nowr,as in the third of Exodus, when the Lord fens (Moles to the people of Ifrad to bring them up out. of Egypt, to Canaan,( which was a great work, one of the greatefl that was ever done in the world, and inwhich the Lord made the moll glorious difcovery of his Power,Juflice, and Mercy ; whenGod I,fay,..
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