Chap. 3se An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Vert. io. and fhall never fee the Ieafr rayof it for ever:They are in darknefs, and they have no hope of ligh:t.at. all for ever. As that which makes Heave rfo full ofjoy, is,that Heaven is a- bove all fear ; fo that which makes Hell fo full of terrour, is, that Hell is below all hope : Heaven is a day which fhall never fee any approaches of the night,and Hell is a night that fhairl never fee any dawnings of the day. So, proportionably in any atietion of this life, to be hopelefs of.deliverance, to fay it.fnall. never end, 1, an in fuch a night as (hall have no day,no not the dawning ofaday; this is the utmofl evil, the extremity ofafflidfion. So much concerning the curfe it felfwhich Job poured out with fo much paffion, both againfi the day of his "birth,and the night of his conception. We fhall-now here fee the reaf3n of this paflion in the words which follow. JOB 3. 1o, I.!, 12, 13. Becaufe itfhut not tip the doors ofmy Mothers womb, nor bidforroWfromnine eyes. Why dyed I t_ from thewomb ? why didInot give up the ghoft:rlp.7 I came out of the belly ? wh.l :lid the knees prevent me ? or why the breafis that I fir :yidTack? For or, fl' fhoula I have lienRill, and-been quiet, IJhould havefiept 5 then had Ibeen at regt. \ )VE are now come to the fecond general part of this Chap- N/ ser. You may remember,, the whole was divided into three Sedions. The firft fnewed us thecurie which f ob poured out upon his day. The fecond, the caufe or ground of that curie. And the third, a vehement expoflulation about the continuance ofhis life, and the lengtheningofhis days. We have heard the curfe,openëd already in.the'nine former ver- fes : Now followeth the caufe of the,curfe. obgives an account or reafonofhis palling, : If any íhould check him'with,, why daft thou thus breath out complaints "againfi' the cloy of 'fly birth ? Why doff thou write fuel; bitter things againft the night of thy D d d 2 conception ? 7
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