2,5.2 Verf. 6. An expofition upon the Bookof J OB. Chap.z. Ction is the delight ofSatan,and it is his way, as he hath no hope tobe faved himfel£eternally , fo no will to fave others tempo- rally. Obferve then , That here toPave life , note; enely a (faringfrom Serval. ani. death ; not adelivering from deflrudion, but a forbearing to de- mara quia earn ftroy. Satan faxed his life negatively, that is, he did not take it a- non perdit; way : he cannot fave pofitively, or reflore that which was ready Ural.(, to perifh; he lothnot fave as a deliverer, but as a tnurtherer,who would kill his brother,but cannot. He laves not for want ofwill, but for want ofpower : whenhe is forced to fpare , hisnature is todevour. Thisdevouring Lyon hunts for the precious life, even when God faith , Save his life. It may be queftioned here, Why Satan (for that is implyed)de- fired fo to deftroy the Life ofJob ? God would never have limi- ted and chained him up, but that Satan had a mind to fuck his blood, or affild himunto death. life. Thefe two reafons may be given, why Satan would have his Theone might be this , Becaufe it was a thing doubtful with him (though he bragged much of it) whether he fhould amine his end or no , to make job curie God, when therefore he law he could not overcome his fpiritual life, it would have been Tome revenge to him todeftroy his natural life. As forcewicked ones his agents,whenby all their threats or flatteries they cannot make a man fn, which is to deflroy his fpiritual life, Their revenge breaks forth againft his natural life , toadeflroy that i This is the methodofperfecution , firft to attempt th'e death of the foul, by drawing or terrifying unto fin, and if they fail ofthat, then death is inflicted on the body. Or again in the feeond place , he being doubtful in himfelf (though he made no doubt in words) whether his plot would be fitccetsfiil, tomake job curie God ;. he (I fay) doubting this de- fìgne might not draw him to fin , refolved to take away his life that fo jobmight never have told tales ofhis Viétory, or have re- ported his conqueft to the World. At leaft by his deathhe might obfcure the bufinefs, and bury it with force hander : faying that Jab died withdifcontent and grief, that he blafphemed God 'when he died, that he whiled for death, and could not hold out any longer. Much like thatfdevice offome Jefuits, who haveblown it, abroad , that our. moll: zealous eppofers of Roma.errours, whom
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