3 12 Chap. 2. An Expofition upon the Boobçof J O B: Verf 12. and yet behold they doubled his forrows , and proved a greater affliEtion to him then all the refl. yob had nothing left him, but the integrity of his wayes, and the uprightnefs of his heart ; His eflate was gone, his childrenwere gone, his health was gone, his body was broken, he was undone quite, yet he had a heart -fullof integrity. And when Satan the enemy could not ftrip him ofthis, he ends his wife : Firft, to jear him out of it, but he (hakes her off quickly as a foolifh woman : Secondly, he fends tiiefe friends, gravely and learnedly to difpute and beat him out ofit,by dint of argument. O how longdid thefe hang upon him, withmany feri- ous and weighty,with many pious and divine (much mifapplyed) difcouríes : he could not get rid of thefe, whofe words were as drawn fwords, often making his wounded foul bleed and breath out fad complaints ; and yet they came to comfort him. A mans heart (faith Solomon, Prov.i 6.9.) devifeth his way, but the Lorddi- reUeth hirfïep.r, Man devifeth, but God diredeth : Heorders the actionsand over -rules theends ofevery creature : We can neither cut out our way,nor make upourconclufions,by our own ftrength or wifdom. And fo much for the tenth verfe, His friends vifit,They came unto him. I told you before, that the two following verfes, dobut fet forth the particularsof the firll end, their mourning. They came tomourn with him : Their mourning is expreffed by manyof thofe particu- lar circumflances,obferved inJobs forrow, c. I. v. zo. therefore I (hall not infill much upon them. Andwhen they lifted up their eyes afar offthey knew him not. This is the preface to the leverai as of their mourning. Andwhen they liftedup their eyes. To lift up the eyes, is a fre- quent Scripturephrafe for feeing, Gen. 26.63, 64. There is a rea- fòn in nature for it, man having a fpecial nerve in the fabrick of the eye, by the motion of which the eye turns upward. I only offer that,.becaùfe the fame word is ufed for lifting up the voyce. Afrr of Some hence infer , that lob lay abroad ; and they take this for a further argument, that he was put outof the City or houle where he dwelt, as a Leper. But this afar off, might be within the compafsof his own houle, or in his Chamber ; as if it had been laid, as loon as they fiept into the place where he lay, and efpied him in fuch a forlorn condition , they knew him not though
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