Chap. 3. .A# Expofitioh upén the Bookofj B. Verf. 3.; . 339 hedivided days into lucky and unlucky, good days and bad days as if he had denyed the providence of Gdd, at-lëaft -the particular providence of God ; inguiding individual.per.fons or paffages of our lives here below. There areothers whocarry the matteras far on the other hand, altogether excufing,and which is naore,commending,yea applaud= ing job in this aft of curling his days They make this turf& an argument of his holinefs, and thefe expollulati-ons as a part ofhis patience contending firft, that the-fedid only exprefs (whichhe ought) the fuffering of his.fenfitive part, as a man,ánd fo were op- polite toStoical Apathy,not to Chriffian patience s" to a fiord, not toa man. Secondly, That he fpake all this,not only according to the Law of fenfe, but with exalt judgment, and according to the Lawof foundeft Reafon 7, And which is far more, that he fpake all this, not of impotent anger againft his day , but out of "perfeEt love unto his God :, That he fpake this curf,not in his own,but in the behalfof God,pleading for thepro ,,l °nceof God againft the fùr- mi Les ofmen : For (fay forne) he feared left his friends feeing hint (whom they ever took for a godly man) thus aiflic`ted, fhould ac- cufè the providence of Gods As ifhe h"ad faid,I would I had never been born; or it had been better forme -not to have 'been born, ra- ther then 11bould be an occafion for any to take uphard thoughts againft God,or that his Name throughmy fuflerings íhòuld puffer. So that the love of God, not wearinefs under,or unwillingnefs to he under the crois , conftrained" him thus to fpcak : And if he was beftdes himfelf ,(as the Apoftles word is) it was to God, a Car. 5. 13. I donot fày,but that Yob loved God,and loved him exceedingly all this,while , but whether we fhould fo far acquit lob, I much doubt,efpecially f_eing'jobhimfelf faith, Chap,avaI have fi'oken, and Iwillfpeakno more: If fob had ipoken io much from the love of God , and tothe honour of God in this-curie , having fpoket once, he ought to have fpoken again and again : And had it been fo,fiarely rob might have fare hisrepci tance,as to this-poiízt,and needednot have Laid, Nam I abhor nay fitf, and repent in duit and afhes : If kbhad fpoken all thisaccording to exaa reafon,and the exaL netsofholinefs, he had no reafon to repent, efpacially to re= pent in duff and afhes; for what he had thus-fpoken:No man tieeds abhor himfeif for that, wherein he both intentionally and aftuaily honours God. Xx z c
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