Chap. 2. An Expofition upon the 3ookof J O B. Vert. 9. 27í There cotìfcquentes are three 1. His Wives unfeemly andíìnful counf:el, -verf, g. 2. His wife and holy reply, vcrf to. 3. His friends vifit to comfort him, verf: kirt, we will dtícufs'his Wives nnicemly and lintitlcounfel, Then_h 4 faid Wife unto him,&c. There are two queflions railed concerning job's Wife. r. Who the was ? 2.How it came to pars that file was fpared, when all his out-' ward comforts were removed ? For the firff, ilia word.It is the opinion ofmany among the an- cient Jews, that fob lived in the time of Jacob the Patriark. And that he took to wife Dinah, f acobs daughters but I leave the Rab- bins to prove that, if they can. Why the was fparecl in the time of f> general a calamity maybear tome further, inqui y. For fixing a wife is the chiefeft Of creature- comforts, and.the very reafoia whyGod at the Mil did inflitutc that relation,was that manmight have a help meet for him : it may feern fomewhat strange why Sa- tan,going about to bring upon job trouble in its perfeCtion,lhould leave him that,which is the perfeEfion ofall outward comforts,- Gcn.'z.zo;. wife. What were job's Oxcn,and Affes,and Sheep,and Cainels jo a wifè ? And what were his children to a wife? When Adam ,had not only filch a number of Cattel, but all the Cattel and rides in the world in his pofluion, and under his domitiion,'God fa w. himdefec`ive till he.provided hima wife, a wifè was the comple- ment ofall. How then cometh it to pats, that when Satan would ali3iCf Job to theuttermoft,he leaves him his wife ? To clear this, before we come to examine"¡ the words that the fpake, the Jews which are the Authors of that afore-named opi - nion, that his wife was Dinah,tcll us(to lengthen out the dream) that-flte was fpared for f acob her Fathers fake. It is a truth, that 'Childrendo often fare the better for holy Fore- fathers. It is no mean priviledge to he born ofthofe that are in Covenáìít.As God: vifits the iniquity of the Father upon' the _ Chiia'i rot'o the third; andfourth generation of them that hate him, f he Jhenr mercy to thoufands of thore that love bim, &c. Exod. 20. 5, 6. but in this place we have no frock to graft this truthupon,, but a inter imagi nation. I paffe on. Secondly,fome conceivethat his wife was 'out of Satáns com-- roifiion, that he had nothing to do:to meddle with her, the being cornpre7,
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