Chap. 2. flri Expofition upon the Bookof O.B. Verf. 8. 265. Law wasafterwards,you know that they,thould be put ou t ofthe Camp or City ; and it was a Law grounded upon reason, and the qtVit 13 14, cominon light ofnature, though it hada fpiritual .f ìgnili a, ion,as 45. given to the/yews. The Septuagint fay expreily, he fat upon the dung-hill without the City,as Lepers wero wont to be t aorüing $xi sxorpi- to the Law ofMofes ;and as we fee executed in that cat of, 'zziab as ñ;s 11-fi -< the King, being a Leper he dwelt in a houfe by hirnfelf aione, and atas? Sept, was cut of'fromthe houfe of theLord, 2 C11ro11. 26. But that Job fateeither without the City, or upon a dunghill is only a conjecture, andbefides the Text. Vti hic-ì1 way foevei we take it, it is a great aggravation of fobs farrowcs. Tote it for a neceflitateditting in the afhes abroad, it infers, toot either he was fopoor as that he had not a houfe to be in ; or that his dif eafe -was fo contagious that he could not be endured, in the houle. Or takeit for a voluntary ast, that hedid choofe to íi in al;íes,it was an'aggravatio.a ofhis of lifhion; fqr then ittnotes that he was in the lowcit, in the faddeft condition that can beimagined : fit- ting in aflles,being an embleme ofextream forrow,and never ufed but in times of greateft calamity,publick or perfonal. So that here every circumdauce isan aggravation of Job'saffli- dion. Fie was finitten by Satan, and l.e fmote hard, enough : he fmote, and befrnvte hîm with boyler, he fanote him with the moffmalignant kind ofBoyles he fmote him with Inch boyles all over,froin the foie ofhrr feet ro his ci own ;and when he was in this cond tiEon, he hr-, .Flo Nurfe,no Chyrurgian, no Phyltián to helpl-lir , he was forced to take a pot theard to fcrape himfelf:he had no loft bed prepared to lye on, nor (as many havethought) houfe to be in,but out ofthe City,or out ofhis houfe he muft,and among the ashes, upein the dunghill. Lo there he fits. Whatoné , laid of an exaCtHiltory ofa great Prince,that fureily it was writ- zolbo7.C*ÿr. ten rather in theory as a pattern or picture ofa Princ, then ac- ad Principal cording to the truth ofa Hiftory;fo we may fay of this defcripti- efJigiero qua, on of job's troubles:That Cutely it was written ratheras a fiudi- Hithrisfcien, ed patternofmans fufferings, then as an accomplifht Hiflory of the fufferings ofanyman:yea,who almoft can got: fo far in imagi- nation, as jobwent in real palfion?Put we will pals from the dc- fcriptionofhis forrow'to fomc Obfervations upon them. Pint, HereWe fee,tIlatSatan,ifhe be permitted, hatha power fuddenly to afflict the body with difeáfcs ;and that is a power tar tranfcending all the power that is in man. Man is able to Mtn wound
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