ábo Verf. 7, An Expofitioit upon the Boo,Jt,of J O B. Chap. z. word hath its weight and emphafìs to add weight and anguifh to this afíliecion. It may here bequeflioned, how Satan canbe laid to (mite? And the fame doubt arifcth about this aCion of good Angels ; one of which, as executioner ofGods wrath,tìnote ofthe Affyrians in one night an hundred and fourfcore and five thoufand, IJá.37.36 ; and another fmote Herod, ACis la . I anf'wer, how Angels finite is a fecret that we cannot exprefs, nor fully comprehend.For this and the like expreflìons of fmiting, are,fitted to the nature of the Patient,not of theAgent;nman being a,material fübfiance, is fufceptive or capable of fmiting , or of a llroak : But an Angel being an immaterial fubitance, cannot finite properly, and he is therefore only Paid to finite a man, becaufe we cannot lignifie an effeL`f or imprefíìon upon a body, but by fuck a word.We know that in the plague,or other difeafes,when they are immediately inflicted by Angels, man receives a ftroak,and there- fore is Paid to be fmitten. But how the Angel gives that flroak or fmites,is not known. Man may feel himfelf finitten by anAngel, but how the Angel fmites he cannot underuland.This.word is tit- ted to the recipient, not to the efficient caufe of the difeafe, or plague, or death. 31111/ 1-1e fmnehim with boyles, TheHebrew word Ggnifieth an ulcer, V>lcutern:met a burning or an inflaming ulcer, an ulcer that cometh fróm exr ca1oro,Jilie igne treani heat,or isextream hot.Satan did (as it were) kindle a Fite in infl.c:marscor- thebowels of Job, inflamed his blood, and heated the humours of pze: Schind. íj,x t,'ebr.a his body,from whencethefe boiles,thefè ulcers,thefe fores did arife. Jîß>nifi at fcabi- The Grammarians exprefs it fornetime more generally, a filthy em j 11Jí iam, fcab;fometime more particularly, an ulcer, a boule, fometime a le- quatil e E E1e- profie, it is indeed any foul difeafebreaking out upon the body. ata5 nloc. The fame word is tiled, Exod. 9. 1o. where it is laid, that God Emote the Egyptians and the Magicians with boyles. It was one of the plagues ofEgypt that.was inflited upon job; Weneed fayno more of it then that, to thew that it was a grievous plague,ámoll: painful fore ; for it is added in that place of`Exodus,that the Magi- cianscouldnotffand before Mofes becanfé of theboiles. 11"Cép1D Again, it is not only a fruiting, and uniting with a bailee but Icerelemo. there is an Epithite added, he fmote himwithjore boiles, with an evil boile among evils, Come worfe, thefe were the worff kind of boiles. There are many forts of boiles, fòme are not fo bad as others, though all are bad enough, Now left any should think yob,t.
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