'Chap. 2. An Expofitìonupon the Bookof J O E. 'Verf. others.We may feean inflance-neer,if not fully `reaching this All,- tion inthe Apoftle Peter,who hearing Chrift foretelling his fuffer- ings, takes him afide, and began to rebuke him, »tying, Be itfar from thee, Lord; this fhali not be unto thee, Mat. .16. 22, 23. Peter a6ted Satans part, in this, againli his Mafter,though unwit- ingly,yet fo wittily,fo to the life,that he got his name by it;Ghrift faid toPeter, Get thee behind me Satan ; It was Peters tongue, but Satan tun`d it. Ifaac laidof his Son Jacob in .Efaus drefs, The hdnds are the hands of Efau, but thevoice is the voyce of Jacob. Chrift perceived here Satans counfel inPeters words, he law the wicked fpiri.t through the clothing ofPeters deth ; and therefore rebukes the Organ,under the title of the chief Agent ;.Get tbee be- hindme Satan. Nowas Peter, though a holy man, and full of good intentions to his Mailer, yet fpake the Devils mind and lan" guage fo fully, that the Devil himfelf (as to that purpofe) could fcarce have mended it; So likewife fobs Wife, might be a godly woman in the main, though,abufed and milled by Satan, the thus excited her Husband, in the groffeftconflrudion thofè words can bear, to curfeGod and_dye. There is fomewhat in the Text,which may give Us a hint of this: That though the fpake this, yet Job efleemed her a. good wom:Yi.; For, obferve jobs Anfwer to this advice. What doth he fay'? He doth not fay, Thou wicked woman, thou abominable wretch, why dofi thou give me fuch counfel ?. All that he faith is this, Thou fpeakeft as one ofthe foolish Women Jpeaketh. Obfhrve it, he dotti not call her foolith or wicked Woman, but, Thou. Jpeakejt as one 'ofthefoohifh women ; As ifhe fhould fay, 'How now Wile ? what words are thefe that I hear from thee ? thou doff not fpeak now like thy felt, I ufe tohear other Language from thee ; thou and I have had other kindofconference, and I have received other kind No nearn ft+il. ofcounfel from thee then tlri"s;Whence is it that thou 'art lo unlike lira thy felt? where are thy words feafon'd with Salt, which have lo in eo fcr.mmne often miniflred Grace unto the hearers ? thou art degenerated ia: +tcarum mu- Manners and thy corrupted in eech ; thou a e t now as one..o f lreru.vi mores P Y f Jp' P kl imìrat -gym cfucf the foolilh Women : Intimating that The ufed to fpeak wifely and' a ¡eipfa deJere- difcreetly, or as Solomon defcribes the vertuous Woman (Prov. rìt qufrin 31. a6.) that heretofore 'he opened her mouth with wifionse ; and alienormores et now the fpake only as a foolifh or wicked Woman ; He doth not t eme n aGte- fa the was one : one act is enough to affimilate, but it is not e- rrr. Sar:Etius nough to denominate.Thusmuchmay ferve to evince that,thoigh 'n 1oc. 0 oa we 283
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