362: Ved: 6 An Expofition upon the Eookof JOB. Chap.33-° confifleth in its conjunEtion to theday ; hence light and darknefs put together , come both udder the denomination and notion of day ; Night is called day,as beinga part ofthe natural day : Now that which is the chief priviledge of the night , this curie firikes at : Job would have it rent and dif-joynted from the day, Let it not be joyned to the dayes of the year. Difunion and divilion is a great curie , when the night is not joyned to the dayit is the curfe of the night.The Robbins have a conceit, why after the work of the fecond day was finned, God (beholding what he had done ) did not add anyapprobation to it ; When hemade the Light,which was the firft days work,heap- provcs it, Godraw the Light, andfaid it wasgood,but to the work ofthe fecond day God fubjoyned no approbation,by Paying it was good: The reafon (I fay) which many of the Rabbinsgive of it, was this,becaufe then was the fidi difunion, that made the firfl fe- cond that ever was , all before was one (tub uniffimo Veo) under the one-molt God: I shall leave this fancy to the Rabbins. But there is fomewhat in the notion it felf,namely,that divifion and difunion are the evils of the creature. The night hath glory by union with theday the weakefl things, and the-obfcurefl things,have an ho- nour, by being joyned with the fironger and more excellent, And as thefe natural difunions are the afrlidion of natural . things :fo civil difunions and civil divifions are much more the of , flidion of People and Nations. Ghrifi affures us, that the ftronge- efi Kingdoms divided cannot Rand, Mary, 3. 24. 'Weak things are thong by union, and that not only by union with the firong, but by.union among themfelves.Weak things united are firengthened, joyn weakwith weak and they are ftrong.And things obfcure,uni- ted,are honourable,efpecially.ifunited with that which is honou- rable ; The gloryofthe wife is in the band ofunionwith her huf- band ; Ikefhines with the rays ofher husbands honour : whatloever, natural or civil excellency is in hím,reflc' s upon her ; The woman k the glory ofthe man, ( as the Apofile fpeaks, t Cor. i a. 7. ) in regardoffubjeGtion : It is mans glory, that God hath given him 1hperiority over fo excellent a Creature. But in another fence, the man is the glory of the woman, fhe communicates with him inall his. dignity. how great foever. Thus allo the day is theglory of the night : The night l'hines by her marriage with the day. job ;dues out a divorce.between them , La it not be joyned to thedayes of the year. . And
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