Chap. 2. Jobsboiles were not the molt painful and malignant, a word is loyned to exprefs it to the height : in the kind they were Boyles) and (iitenfive or) in the degree, they were the worlt and moll tort menting boiles. Further in the fourth place, we know it is painful for a man to have one boyle, efpecially an angry burning one, a boyle of the wort fort ; but it is fubjoyned, be wasfinitten with boyles,from the foleof his foot unto his crown. To be all over Boyles, and to be all over -run with the moat painful kind ofboyles, what a vehement pain muff this be ? From thefoie ofhis foot unto hia crown, there is theextent of this ftroke. Intenfive, it was the worft kind ofboyle, an_d Extenfivè, it was all overhis body ; no part free. From the foie of his foot to the crown. It is ufual in Scripture thus to fignifie the whole body.As Deut.28.35.The Lord'hallfinite thee in the knees and in the leggy, with a fore botch that cannot he. healed, from the foie of the foot to the top ofthe head, or, to the crown. And Ifa. a.6.when the Prophet would exprefswhat a general blow thebody politick had received from the hand of God by his judg- ments, (fo it is thereto be underfrood) he faith there were wounds and bruifes, andputrifyingfores, from the_file of thefoot even unto thehead. That is, the whole body politick,the whole State had at one time or other, or all at one time received wounds andblows, and frroaks from the hand ofGod. The extreams, comprehend all the parts. That which extends from oneextream, or utmoft part, to another, is extended through all ; from Eat" to Weft, is all the world over ; and from head tofoot, is all the body over. So then,. Satanfmote him from the foie ofhitfoot unto his crown, is,He finote his whole body. All pains and diftempers were gathered into this one malady, and all the parts ofhis body were finitten, as if they had been but one member : only his tongue was untoucht, as is commonly ob- ferved, That it might be free to bláfpheme God, who had thus polluted the beauty and comlinefs ofhis body, who had .thus im bittered the comforts of his foul. lobbeing thus finitten, would furely look out for help.Though. it be exceeding finful. (with Afa difeah:d in his feet)_ to Peek to The Phyfitians, andnot the Lord, yet it is. our duty to feek to the Lord and the Phyfitian ; To truft inmeans is to negleCr God; 2Chro, to negle6 means is to tempt God.. Doubtlefs, holy and wife Job walkt in apath between thefe.two ; He neither trailed nor neg- leced;. AnExpofition upon the Bookof J O B. - Verf. 7. 26i
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