410 Verf x4. An Expofition upon the Book'of J OB. Chap.3. is both apart andan encreafe of theirmifery) that they never had been, or now might ceafe to be, rather thencontinue miferable. Now toPhut up and refolve the queflion,as to the ground ofit, yob's complaint in this Text, I fay, Jab was only in the prefent feeling of temporal troubles, and he was beyond the fear ofeter- nal : Therefore number this among his failings,that he wifhed he had never been conceived, becaufe he was thusafiered. jOB 3. 14, i5, 16, 17, 18. With Kings and Counfellors of the Earthh, whichbuilt defolate places for thensfelves : or with Princes that had gòld, who filled their haufes withSilver Or ar an hidden untimely birth, I had not been ; as in- fantswhichnever far light. There the wickedceafefrom troubling; andthere thewea- ry beat refl. There the prifoners refi togeth:er,they hear not thevoice of the oppreffor, cc. tom the tenth Verfe of this Chapter to the end of the nine- teenth, we have íhewed you, that joblayeth down the caufe of his former bitternefs and complainings againít his day. At Verfe o.he is angry becaufe it hindred not his conception andhis birth, and at.Verje 13. he givcth a further caufe ofthat. caufe, For then (faith he) Ifhould have beenat refl. Now being about to prove that in death,he fhould have found reff,he Both it by aninjunc`fion ofparticulars ; As if he had thus faid : Where all fortsof perfons, even they who have been hardefl wrought, and molt troubled in the world, find reft,there furely I. fhould have found reft alto But in death, perfons that havebèen hardeft wrought and molt troubled in the world find reft;therefore there I fhould have found reft ,too. Now for the proving ofthis Affumption , that in death all forts 2fperfóns find refit, even thofe whohave been molt tra- elled, tyred and worn out in .the world : To prove this (I' fay) he
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