27a Verf..9. An Expofition.upon theBook. ofJ O B. Chap. 2. comprehended under that cafeofexception in the firft Chapter, verf. 12. All that he bath it in thy power, onlyuponhimfelfput not forth thine hand his wife (they fay) was a part of himfeif, ac- cording to that Gen. 2.' 24. And they (viz, the husband and the .wife)fb all be onefrefh. So that Satan could not finite her, but he muff finite fob too; therefore the was exempted, fay they,andfet beyond-thereach ofSatans ftroak. Though this may have forne thewof wit in it,and fomewhat of '-reaton too,referrir:g, }into the firft part offobs af$iaion ; yet there is no thew ofeither in referenceunto the fecond, where Satan had a Commiflion to affliC his body,his flesh andhis bone; for then the alto (take itin the fenfe before) was comprehended under the Commiflion ofSatan, being (though:not as Eve from Adam, bone of his bone, and flefh of his flefh, yet)' according to the Law of .marriage given to all, One flefb with him,Gen.2.24.. Therefore in the third place, that which-I conceive and agree -with othersin for the true reafonwhy the was fpared,is this,that the might be a further inftrument of her husbands afi6 ion.Satan meant tomake ufe ofher for his own purpofe, to driveon the Main defign :and whereas the should havebeen a help to her hus 6oryjoßoite, band, Satan imploycs her again(} her Husband: this was his aime, and therefore the was fpared. -Hence one ofthe Ancients calls her the JirongeJtand fitteft weapon, with which Satandid affault, the choifefi Arrow inhis Quiver,-by which he woúnded the foul and fpírit of Job. She that fhould have had her hands buffed in the waffling, fuppling, curing,and healing ofhis wounds, finites him: with her tongue, a piercing and poyfoned inftrument. The ribNis 'Greg. moral. not 'mitten that it might finite the head. Another compares her to a Ladder, by which Satanhoped to fcale this impregnable Tower, that death might creep in at the window of his ears, by hearing and contenting to her finful perfwafions. Seeing then Satan (pared Jobs wife, that the might be the ín- irunfent of this 11dditional aillietion;which molt conclude to be as the_fling of all liTaftlidions. Fir't note, this , That Satans mercies have afrvayesfomewhat of cruelty in them. He fpareth his wife , but it was that fiie might further vex the husband.His mercies are like the mercies ofwick- ed men`, Their sender mercies are cruel, that is , they are no mercies at all; Prov. 12.10. There is a punithing crercy,and there, Plsrenurt. is a fparing cruelty amon g men. Such are Satans fparings ever_ Jun in loc. lined
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