Chap. 3. An Expo f i tion upon the Bóokof J o .. ve-C 3. 341 after_day,yea, moueth after moneth ; Chap.7.3. I am made (faith he ) to 'miffs moneths of vanity : yea, as ¡bale have calculated them , his troubles continued year after year for leven years. Though a man make force, yea great complainings, under many great;long làflingafflictions, an eafae Apology mayacquit him of impatience. Fourthly, Confider this,that his complainingsand ails of im- patience were but a few, but his Cubmiflions and ac`Is of meeknefs under the handof God were very many. Nowwe know,that one or.a.few as though evil, do not denominate a perfon, efpecially when they are ballanced bymany as ofgood in the fame perfon, and about the fame thing. How often doth lob in thisBookbreath forth patience, humility,faith,love,and ftedfall truft in God,what- foever he fhould do withhim: there ballance his complainings,yea indeed they over-ball.ance them fo much ,. for the fètlingpt our judgments about lob's patience, that they leave not fo much as an opinion of the contrary. Fifthly,Take this into confideration ,that though-he did com- plain, and complainbitterly, yet he recovered out of there corn- plainings : he was not overcome by impatience, though Come im- patient fpeeches came from him:he recals what he had fpoken,aiad repents -for_ what. he had done. See how he fubmitteth himfelf (Chap.4z.) howlowhe lies before God,even in the duff, and faith, Iwiti /peak no more, If lhave.been impatient, I will ufe no more impatient Cpeeches;If I have been impatient,I repent of it, I repent of it in duff andafhes:To repent of impaticuce,takes away the im- putation of impatience ; and to fay I will do evil nomore, gains (through themercy ofGod inChrift) an acceptance of us, as if we had done no evil : Aman is Conqueror, though in the battei he fuffers many foils,and receiveth manywounds,and lofethmuch blood ; though for a great while in the day, a man be worfied, yea, though a whole Army be worfted , yet if in the Evening, inthe clofe ofthe. day,he and they keep the field,and foil the ene- ,my, the day is won,. and victory . goes on. this fide. lib was in agreat battei, in a Core fight of afflictions; though it be granted that he received Come wounds,,.and had force foils, ánd fome- times looks as if he had been beaten, and fpeaks as ifhe had been overcome ,.yet inthe cloCe,in the evening,in the makingopof all, he wént away a.Conqueror ; the conclution was victory and glo- ry.; lob had the victory, and God the glory : Therefore as the X x 3 ; Apóliiec
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