270 Verf. 9. An'Expofition upon the Bookof j OB. Chap.2. out,as theProphet Jeremiah in his fourth Chap. V. 19. My bowels, my bowels,I am painedat the very heart, myheart maketh á noire in me,I cannot bold my peace, becaufethou haft heard : 0 my foul, the found ofthe trumpet, and the alarm ofWar.And becaufe the found ofthe trumpet among us, like that, on Mount Sinai, Exod. 19. 19. doch not only found long, but alto lowder and lowders it becomes us,not onely to continue our mourning and our crying unto God, but to cry lowder and lowder.Ifwe increafe not our humiliations God will yet increafe our judgments:if we will riot fit in afhes, he will bring us toafhes,and punith us yet (even times more for our fins. Wherefore receive the counfel of the Apoftle James, 'in thefe your ofiotions, be afililied, andmournandweep : letyour laughter James 4.9,10. be turned to mourning, andyourjoy to heavinefs. Humbleyourfelver in thefight ofthe Lord, and hefhall liftyou up. God lifts them up who cafe themfelves downsand if (in this fenfe)we be afllid`fed; we fhall not be afflicted. Chrifbath purchafed Free Grace beftowes deliverance s and we receive it; when we return, repent, and beleive. JOB, 2.9,10. Thenfaid his wife unto him, Doft thoufill retain thine integrity ? Curfe God anddye. But hefaid unto her, Thou fpeáleef# as one of the f olifb women Jpeaketh : what ? fhall we receive goodat the hand of God, and pall we not receive evil ? In all this did not Job fin with his lips. V \7Ehave aircady confidered out ofthe former parts: of the Chapter Jot , fécond aflliEtion: in theoccafíon of its fecondly, in the caufes ofit : and thirdly, in themanner of its together with thofe aggravating circumfiances which made his farrows out oftneafure forrowful: And now we mutt look upon that Jewel among the afhes, and confider what befell him there: Thefè things make the fourth part of the Chapter, namely the confequents ofhis afiaion. Thefe
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