In all this did net Job f n with his.lipr. yob reproves his wife for fpeaking fo , and he refuteswhat he had fpoken ; hi both he hits the right : flow in all this didnot Job fin with his lips. This is the Erne tefimony for the matter, and almoft the fame in words, with thatgiven ofYobs victory, in the clofe of the firft days battel ; andhavingexplicated them in that place, I [hall but briefly touch them here. In all this didnot Job fin with his lips. We fee in general,the Holy Ghoft gives the viftory to fob. Sa- tan is foiled, his plot fails, the weapons of his warfare are all . broken and fuccefslefs ; all his fiery darts are either quencht or :beaten back upon`himfelf: job ftands Iike a mighty rock, or like a houfe built upon the rock, unfhaken, moved. He that is held up by everlafling arms, [hall [land fall for ever. In all this Job finned not. The words refer to what was paft ; For Yoh afterward did fail and finnedwith his lips; through vehemency ofpain, and heat of difputation, he fpake fbme things ralhly,though nothingblafphe- moufly : So he confeffes, Chap. 42. 13. I have uttered things that I underfandnot. But in all this, fo faras Job had gone, be had not finned with his lips. As Samuel after many victories and deliver- ances, Pets up a [tone or a pillar with this infcription, Eben-Ezer, The [tone of help, laying, Hitherto bath the Lordhelpedus (i Sam. 7. 12. ) So here the Holy Ghoft loth (as it were) erect a pillar, raife a monument of Jobs compleat and glorious victories over Satan , Thus engraven , Hitherto , in' all this Job loath not finned. Yet you may remember, that fuch fpeeches concern- ing the Saints, are to be underflood in a qualified fent, not in ail abfolute fenfe. For , who can bring a clean thing out of that which is unclean ? Perfection out of imperfection ? Not to fin, is here our duty, and [hould be our endeavour, it [hall be our reward in Heaven. On earth weare faid not to fin, when we delire not to fin ; as bath been more at large [hewed upon thofe words of the laft verfe of the former Chapter. In all this Job finned not, nor chargedGod foolifbly. There read thepoint handled . more diflinCtly. For the opening of thefe wörds, noteonely this that when it'isfaid,In 41 this Job finnednot : There is more tobe underltood, then is expreft ; forjob did not only not fn, but he overcame,and triumphedglorioufly over Satan:he did excellently, q and
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