282 Vert. 9; AK Expoftion upon the Bookof J O B. Chap. 2. but-not marriage with a Chriflian, or the holieft man that'ever li- ved. Therefore that reafon is not cogent. Secondly, this fpeech, and a holy perfon, are not altogether in- confìftent : poflibly jobs Wife was a good woman, though au- ally the fpake thus 'wickedly. Divers of the Jewitli Donors have all Opinion, thatit was not fob.t wife that fpake,but the Devil in her likenefs. I (hall leave that among their other dreams.It is con- ¡canted by others, (though it were not the Devil that fpake, per- fonating his Wife,yet) that it was the Devil fpeaking inor by the . perfon of his Wife, as he fpake in or by the Serpent , Gen. 3. Or as perlons really pot fi of the Devil, who fpeak S,atans words, and do Satans works, not their own. Some (I fay) ,carry it thus, that the was for that time not only acted, but actually poffeff by theDevil, and fo fpake the Devils language ; One of the Ancients cìiryfolorne, is exprefs to this purpofe, Theft are Devils words, not the romans Dour adeum words ; which another iiluflrates by that in the third of Genefis, )aore3b";uxw- where it is laid, The Serpent Paid unto the woman, but it was the re.xi elixir Devil that fake unto the woman by the Ser ent;fò here it is Paid ftùsifëfedvere P Y P' , dioboius dixit, His wifefpake unto him, but the truth is, it was the Devil fpake Sir namqueQ'9' unto hicn,inand by his wife. And if fo,put the Language into the ncir. Dixit worfl Expolitlon given, or give a worfe (if Truthwill bearit)and` ferpens ad mu it will be no wrong r to- fuch an Orator. _ believe we cannot ex áierem ;ferpen- rem dixirdix. pound the words to a higher fenfe or ftrainof wickednefs, then ft ,fed nonfer_ Satan could fpeak. i>'éns dixir, fed But we need not make Satan himfelf the fpeaker, and yet clear tisbotusquiper the matter too;though we neither fay as :he Jesith DoL ors,that jerpentem loco- jig i r Pit, orig, t was the Devil perfonaïly, taring the ílaap . of j iife 'ei as thole ChriflianFathers,that rife Devil did aft ally pcífefs her;yur we may fay (and fo falve the difficulty) that fbe was mightily 0L verpowered,and ailed by the temptationof Satan;to be an Intiru- ment of temptation, in this grofs manner, againO her Husband Though (he were not acted as the Serpent was in whom Satan fpake to Fze;yet wemay well fay,fhewas aced as Eye by whom Satan fpake to Adam: Eve fpake the Devils mind, beingprevail'd uponby his temptation, toperfwadeherHusband to eatagainfl the command of God ; and jobs wife overcome by a 1'.:e temptation attempts the perfwafion ofher Husband to curie God. Foras it is pollible'for .onethat is good to fall into the groffeft and moil blafphemous temptation himfeif, fo it is poffrble for one that is good to be Made an irftrcmerit of Loch-Temptations unto others,
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