2,68 Verf. $'. Eln: xpofon upon_the Book ofJ O B. 'Chap.z.' fervants hold their nofes,being not able to bear the 'tench and ill. favour that cometh from the body,yea when a man comes to be 'anabhorring to;himfelf; yet at that time God`delights. in him;, Chrif% at that time ïmbraceth hirn,and - takes him in his,artas,and.. kiffeth hire with the'kiffes ofhis lips,which are better them wine,: yea better then life.fab was never fo near God, loin, the bo[ome. of God,as -,vhen nocreature in the world would fomùch as touch; hinijob was never fo beautiful in the eyes ofGod,as when he had nothing but boyles 'upon him. . Fourthly, I mayprefëi;t-you WithJób as he was upon lrisath -, hill in want-ofall things; from 'thence be admonihaed, that the. Children ofGod,his deareft fervants,may come to uttertnoft out- ward extremities, When a man is among the afhes, then he is at- the loweft:v4 hat 'can a man be lets then that? the Apoffles were made as the filth of-the world, as the offfcòwrjügofall things,as fwecping and otfall which are call out-upon the dünghi11 ;Tawas Job in the feüfe ofmany iuterpretors.They who are o ;mock worth may be ufed as if they were worth nothing. Job was a pearl thoughupon a dunghil. They who were brought ùp inSca.rlet em. brace dunghils,faith, eren9r,in hidLamentation for Jerufa'letri,Ch. 4.5Wá may fay,they who are brdught up and cloathedin better. 'then Scarlet,even in the robes of righteoufnefs, and in the gar- rnents ofSalvation, may yet be brought to embrace a dunghill. There is no judging by appearance ; No man Ityowes love or hatred byall that is before kiln (or;upon him) Eccief 9.. Laflly;look upotfJob:r fitting in the afhes as a voluntary ad,. and then obferve,(which is of much concernment and ufe for us mow'in regard of the prefent condition we are in. )That as the. ugh:c`ting handofGoddoth increafe upon apeople,nr upon aperfon, fo ought thehumiliation and repentance of that pertnor.people to ix-. creafe.When the hand ofGodwas upon Job before,heren`t his man- tle he paved his - ..'bead, 'thefe were adSof great humiliation but now lob having a nearer and a deeper afrlidion upon him, humbleth hinifelfYet more.Then he fell upon theground,but now he fittcthi among the afhes. Greater afflihonscall tògreater hu- miliation-We ought not only to be humbled whenGodarliideth,, hut. to 'be humbled ina proportion to the afilidioh ;'as it is in re Bardof fin committed, great fins call for great forrosv; and as it is in regard of Mercies received, great mercies call for great pEaifes fo, great troubles call us to great humiliations; and 1h11 the
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