290 Vérf: ç. An Expoftion upon the Bookof J O B. Chap. 2. Thou haft fuch low thoughts of God, and fpeakeft Co poorly of God, that at prefent I cannot but number thee among the fools ; for as there is nothingought to be fo high in our thoughts, as God and his ways ; fo we ought to havehigh and reverent thoughts of God and his ways,whatfoever he doth with us:though we change, yet he and they changenot God is the fame, and his frvice the fame for ever. Laftly, Obferve, That to do or(peak, wickedly, is t di orfpeak foolifbly. Sin is the greateft folly in the world ; Sin is a.leclini.ng from the rule of right reafon, both from fpirituaf reafo<.,and from natural ; Lo, they have re1efiedtheword ofthe Lord, ando, at wif- dome is in them ? Jer.8.9. True wifdom, is to walk by a rig rule, to aright end. While we fin, IA (in force degree or othex; is the rule, and f if is the end. Inboth whichwe joyn handswith, folly, and are the companions offools; Thou fpeakeft as one of the foolifa women, &c. From the reproof it felt, we come to confider the reafons of. the reproof. Thou fpeakeJt as one of the foolijh wámer fpeaket,h ; what ? Jhall we receive good at the hand of God, and nit evil'? `7in Here is the reafon upon which he grounds his reproof, Sba` we radico. receive good at the hands of God, &c. The Hebrew runs thus in the letter , Shall we receivegoodfromGod &c. The emphafis t? ? of the words carry it thus, fhall we receive good with hand or. /sccepit -moni heart at the hand of God, and fhall we net in the fame manner hm vetonino. receive evil ? The word Cabal,, whence this is derived, fig Cabala doFri nifieth thereceiving ofa thing with the handand with the heart ; paper Manus that is, to receive gladly and thankfully, as it were o kifs the accepta l' ore hand, and receive a thing: Or to receive a thing with much revc,- tenux ob otiss rence and veneration. Hence the 'ewes call the Doarine which. ad altar wal - fi f,. mere. is received and tranfmitted from hand to hand, namely their tra- ditional Doffeine, Caballa : That which the word Tradition im- ports, among the Papifts , the word Caballa imports among the fews. Then the meaning of oob is, That goodand evil are to be alike receivedand entertained as from God; that is, they arc to be received with the fame reverence and chearfulnefs. We receive good things chearfully, thankfully, reverently, we kifs thehand - and take them. And (hall we not receive evil ? The words do not refer to the aff ofreceiving, but to the manner ,of receiving e f1á11 receive evil, whether we will or no, but fhall w e not receive it, namely fo, and fo,as we receive good,chearfully, thank- fully,
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