P.alt. r. Cap. j. ~fftif!ed Confcicnce.t. Satan I CO'rife!fe, is wont to roare 4ri~1:rage :fiercely enough about Gods blefled Ones, to doe them all the mifchiefe, He can poffibly :but rarely hath he fo large a reach, and his chaine fo lengthened as be had agaipfi: .Jo!J. The painefull anguifh of fome one part. would not only deprive a Man,c.fthe pleafute of the worlds Monarchie, if bee had it iq pofleffion : but alfo make him weary of His life. In what a taking then was I) Job, who frvmthe foleof his foot, -unto·his (rowne had. . 110 part free &of.n fore .htles and(~) horri~ly .hl~arrted ("J !~!/Qd fuer]~ »Jorbi< . ulcers,exa:fpera ted and enraged w1th.the fhngH1g finart t,eM_w.,~ncerwm efl:fi~nt of Satans extreamefl: malice, who had power given qttz puta~teleph~ntz.t- ·I;Iim to inBi~ them, . God Hi~fel.~ f~?wnes many ~~r~p~ff::;t:f:g;~~ tunes) an~ Wlthdra~es thebeames GfHlS pleafed £1~~ viu.J malum fuif?e, & · from >the foul'es of Hrs fetvants, to their grce:at gr·tde, quRti for [an nunquam· · tho for their fpiritu·alJ good•: But fetdome at>th 'lie ~[e't qu'i(quam bomznum la~ · them up for Hu Mar:kf • hunt thefll. ;u a fiel'cffif.jQn .. foP 8oravrt. Mere. H · · . · · ' ' ,fl. 1.. : d · ·... : ' . h Job I:) U & IO Itfo u terrours m arrtry agam 1 • tHen1 ;· -an ·colntna-t1<:i:t e 6 • ·' ' · ' poyfon ofHi& arro~u to drin~ up thoit fp'iri.t ,. as-Job eom.:. 4 plaiues : It is no (hange thing, t1either ilioufl!tt_iwnach move, but or.tely make us wa\ke more wat~uU.y, · t~ · heare men of the world, and-dtunkct1 &liul~' t'0 bekh out from their rotteil he~rts upon t~e Ale.:bench fucb· bare Oanders as thefe, Theft Profef{durs for ~~11 their · faire foewu, are, certainely all' of them\no·toriolu Hypocr-ites. 'Tho they loo~ ttever fo. diirriurely, :·theJ. a_re not· the 1lnn tbsy are tak,tn for, &c. But to have a· Mans . neercfl:, familiar, undedl:anding Chrillian friend's to ' charge Him with HyfJocrift~.,~ is-a tn<'ft-ct-uell:cut to a troubled C?nk:ien~e •: -Alld>thtswas· (o):Jobs cafe. So' . tb~ as·']>r!b was fingular. .it\ tli~uni\retfality-ofhis afffi.. (0 )'llit'imO.focrmrtlohi; Cbwns, fo there was afingulir:ityr of bitterlleffe above amici/1' far~JWares,«cr ordinary in: e\·ery pax:tic'tll~r afflid:ion.· .And what ofVe(ttll· gr.eg~Jes: Beza. , .aU thi~?- An~t yet for all this,tl1is holy man by the help f:b no~Idubb1 fi 11'!1'dfpea~·- . , . .' . · mg o. o s rm s;qHJJJ·i • • . • · . ~ · ....• ' • . · • .< ·.1 · .;, ·' ' admirat~di[~tpientia vm (11ermt,utcz eorumdi[pfmzt.itmib'wrqmc.becrtibro·irtfinmtrlr;. 7.!idere efl: . quin & infg,t;tlt . P,r~bitate . & ~lig_iBnc, , Ht ex iif4ellft.ttppttHm er it, ¥c~. · ' of.. I <
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