286 Cliáp, 2. AnExpoftion upon the .Booko f J O B. Verf. ro. venturing, yea -calling away their lives without fear or wit, the whole vifible bufihefs of whole lives hath been nothing elfe but a workingout of their own damnation, without fear or trembling They' as it were give diligence all their days, to make Hell andRe- probation fure, and yet go out of the world as if they were fureof Heaven. This is Sátan.rpreparation, Curfe Godanddye. Laftly, note this, That the holiieff perfon is liable to the mof} blaf phemous temptation. One would have wondred that Satan fhould ever have ventured to fitggeft fuch a grofs thing as this to fo holy a manas yob. But Satan, where he hath beenoften foyled, - grows impudent; and will then fùggeft fuch things, not becaufe he,hopes to prevail, but becaufe he refolves to vex fuch as he cannot over- come. He troubles as much, and as many as he can. Somuch of thé counfel which Jobs wife gave him, reproving him as foolifh andover- credulous in holdingfaft (that unprofitable thing) his-integrity ; and advifing him to be worfe then mad, or outragious, in curfing God and dying. Let usnow confider jobsholy and wife reply in the tenthVerfe. But he fad unto ber, Thou fpeakeff as one of the foolifh women fpeaketh ; what ? fball we receive goodat the handofGod, and _hall we not receive evil? There words containYobs Reply,wherein two things are confi- dirable. Firft, a Reproof. Secondly, a Refutation. Firtt, He rejects her counfel with a (harp and wholefom repre- henfion,and then he refutethher counfel by thong & folid reafon. The reprehenfion in thefe words, Thoufpeakeff as one of the foolifh womenJpeaketh. The reafon ofhis reprehenfìon in thole which fol- low, What? (hall we receive good at the handof God,andnot evil ? To beginwith the Reprehenfion, Thou Jÿeakeff as one ofthe fool- jh women. In the Hebrew, woman is not expreft,it isonly a.Femi- nine, as one ofthefoolifh ones : we tranflate it, foolifh women; That i7' word cometh fromNabal,which fignifieth properly a thing fallen off like a dried leaf, or blafted withered fruit, without life, with - out ftrengtli,without lap and moifture,exhaufied andkil'd through , excels eithexot cold or heat: and fo by a Metaphor itnoteth any one without the fop or juyce of wifdotn, goodnels, and hotiefry fùch a perfon we call, a fáplefs perfbn. Grit fignifieth one that is vile, and bafe, and low, one that bath a bare, withered, low, fallen
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