1+ IL . Verf. g, An Expofrtion upon the Bookof J OB. Chap. I, ofthe field, and Jacob was Ifh Tarn, a plainman ; So that to be a perfect man, is to be a plain man, one whole heart you may. know by his tongue, and read the mans 'fpirit in his adions. Some are filch juglers, that you can leelittle oftheir fpirits._in their lives, you can learn but little.of their minds by their words ; Jacob was a plain man, and fo was job ; Some Tranflate it, a -found man. It is the fame expreffron that is given of Noah, He was [Tamim] in his Generation, or he was found, upright -hearted or perfedwith. God, Gen. 6. 9 And it is that which God fpeaks to Abraham, Gen. i7.2. Walk before me, and be thou [ Tamitn, ] be thouper- feti, orfound, or upright, orplain in thy walking before me. In the twenty eighth of Exodus, verf. 3o. We read ofthe Vrim, and the Thummim on the Breaft-plate of the High-Prieft. Thummim comes from this root, and fignified the integrity of heart ánd.life required in. theHigh-prieft, as Vrimdid the light and clearnefs of his knowledge. ito Andupright.] The former word which was tranflatedperfect, in other Texts is rendered upright ; But when we have both the expreflions together as here, we muff diftinguifh the fenfe. It is not a tautologie. Then, the former being taken for inward found- neffe , plainneffe and fincerity ; This latter (to beupright) may be taken for outward jultice, righteoufrrefs and equity, refpeding all his dealings in the world. He was a perfect man, that is, he was plain-hearted , and he was plain-dealing too, which is the meaning of, He was upright. So theone refers to the integrity of, his fpirit, the other to the honefly ofhis ways , Hisheart wac plain, and his dealings wereAware. Thishe expreffeth fully in the 29. and 31. Chapters of this Book , which are as it were a Comment upon this word upright. There you may read what is meant by uprightnefs ; his fairnefs in all parts, both of Com- mutative and Diftributive Juftice. In thole things that concer- ned'Commutative Juftice , when job bought or fold, traded or . bargained, promifed or covenanted, he flood to all uprightly. Take him as he was a Magifrrate, when Job fate in Judgement, or had anybufinefs brought before him,he gave every one his due, hedid not fpare or Imite upon ends; he did neither at any time jultifie the wicked, or condemn the Godly, but was upright in Judgement : He was not byaft by affec` ionor interefts, he was . not carried away by hopes or fears, hut kept the path of Juftice in,all his difpenfations towards that people among whom he liv- ed,
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