Chap. 2. Sea. 7· J.Loo!ung unto 'jcfttS'. day 11 pon therMth; a~d thOJtgh after my skin worms jh.111 dejhoy this pody, yet in my jlejb jl.a/1 I foe God, whom I jh.tii.Jee fa. m~ fo/f, and mtne •yet Jh•tl. behold, an'.?lOt another, though my reinsbe con[11med twthm me. No mm ever lince Chnrtdtd fpeak moteclearely of Chrifl's refurreCl:ion and his own than Job did here before Chrtfl. Obferve tn tt, 0 my foul , {ob's wiOt ; and the matter wiOted : his wint was, · that cmain words which had been cordial to him, might remam to memory; and tillS wllh hub threewtOto; tn one. r. Tlut rheymight be written. 2 . Tl:-'t they might be regt llred tn a book: enrolled upon record, as publick inflruments, JUdtctal .Pr~ceedmgs, or whatC.;ever JS moll: au– themical. 3. Tlllt they might be engnvcn tn flone, and m the harde{\ 1\one, the rock; records might Iaft long, yet tine might inju~e them, and tbefe words he wouict luvohi\ for ever. •0 tlm the ywere .;raven m the rock for ever! Mofos •nd fob are fatd to have lived at o~e time; now M oj cs writ the law in il:one , and conlidering that thefe words were Gofpei, there was no reafon the Law lhould be Jn tables of !tone, and the Gofpel in Oteets of paper ; no, no ; it were fit tlm this ihould be as firm and durab e as tha[ · Oh rh.u my wotds 1vere written, oh that they 1vere printed in a boo~ &c. 2. The matt't· \Vilhed , or tit< words he would have written, are thefe, J k,_no1v that my Redeemer liverh, and th" f jiH/1/iv; again. Here's fi dt his Redeemer and his rifing. 2 . Hisown riling and his feeing God. 0 this was the matter of his joy, his Redeemer mulr rife again; and it< mu!! rife too, and fee his Redeemer; it wa; a poynr that exceed– ingly ravilhed and revived 'fob, and therefo:·e he iterate; the famerbing over:utd over, 1 Jb•ll fee God, and I Jlu'l foe him for my folf , and I jlull foe him with my eyes, anti Job 8. 56. not with others. As Ctu·ift f1id of .Abraham, Touo Father Abraham re,'oycu/ tofoe my day, and he fa•v it and w.u gl<d. So it appears o~ his fervant j ob, he faw Chriil:'s,day ; both his fir{\ day, and his lattet· day, and he reJoyced and was ghd. Away, away all fcrupulous, doubtful dumpint thoughts! confider what joyes were of o'd, at the forelight of . Chriil:'s refurreCl:ion; but efpecially what joy . was all the world over witen he rof< again from the dead ; then came the An Gr?. h)"i'" gels from heaven, and appeared in white; thenthe. Sun danced for joy, ( foit is fto-~~:•;o. 0 • ryed) or !hone fooner, and bnghter than ever tt dtd befvre, then I am fure the Di- Luk. 24• 4 ;. fciples were exceeding glad, when they Jaw the Lord ; yea fo glad that they believed Apofloiidiedo– ?Jot for joy ; it is won by our obferving to fee how all the primitive Saints were mmrcoexhili– atfeCl:ed with this news, and be aufc of tt, with the very day on· which Chriftrofe; ' f,'• j,"folunt fome call it The Jirft d•y of joy and gladnefs, and bee'afe ofthe joy occafioned on thu day, 't;/f:;a:/!;g, the Apoftles (fay they) devoted the Jirft day of the wee/z. to the honour and forvice of volummt, ve– 'fe[U4 Chrift. .Auguftine applyes tlte words of thePfalm unto this day, Thu u the day '"m etiam per which the LordhAthmade, lee m be glad, 4nd rejoyce in ir, Pfal. II8. 2f. Ignatimwho om1s hebdo– lived in tbe Apoil:les age, and WlS John's Difc1ple calls it the£0een, the Princefs, the ~:,J:fr~uenLady paramount among the other weekly days. Chryfoftome calls it a royal day, and diixer::.:.J~no. Gregory N.1z.ianz.en orar. f2 . faith •t u h,gher than the higheft, And, with admiration, cent. t.Epifi. wonderful abovt other d~ys. Certainly the Lord's day was in high ef\ee n with the an- ad Decenc tient Church, and the principle motive was becaufe of Chrifl's refurreCl:ion from the 11 ' 4· ·dead. .0 that on rhefe days we could rejoyce in .the Lord, and again rejoy.e; ir is obferved rhat M any Chriftians look,_ upon bro~en-heartednefs, and much grieving and weeping for fin, tU if it were the g•eat thing that God delighteth in, andrequirerh ofthem ; and therefore they bend all their cndeav~urs that way, they are ftilt jfriving with their fo~x:ftt;;~hod hearts .to break._them more .and they thtntz. no Sermon 1 no pr;1yer, no medttatr.on, fjeedfo peace. well wuh them, M th.tt wh.ch cmt help them to griv;, orweep ; bm 0 Chriftians 11nder. ftand,. and confider ( fatth my Aorbour) that all your Jorro\Vs are but preparatives for your t•ys, and that it u an higher andfweeter tvor/z.that God callsyo~< to, and would h,we you fpend your time and jfrength in. Deli[ht thy folf in the Lord, and heJl>all give thee Pli 1 the dejiresofthme heart. -- -1Vever tak_e your he.ms to be right, till they be delighting a · 37· 4o themfelves m the.r God: when yoJt k_neel down in pr. 1 yer, labo11rJo to conreive ofGod, and befpea/z.h•m, that he may beyo11rdeligh<? do fo in hearing, and reading and meditating, andmy•ur feajfmg on the flejl> and blood of Jefl« Chrift at hu Su,'per. Efpecially improve the happy opportunity of theLord's day, wherein you may wholly devote your folves unto . th~J wor~'. 0 fpend more of this day in Urirual rejoydng, efpecially in commemoration of Clm!t s refu:reC.tw~ (yeaand of the whole work of red<lnption) or elfe you will not anfwer the mlhtutton of the Lord. - - - · ?. SECT;
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