Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v10

jo Chap. 32. An Evpofition upon the Book, of J o B. Verf, z. could not be à more unrighteous thought conceived offob inany mansheart, then that he was (as his friends thought him) righ- teous in his owne eyes -; yet thus they thought him, nor would they thinke otherwife of hint, let him fay what he would to the contrary. So much of the firft verfe which giveth us a reafon why fobs friendsfate downe and ceafed toanfwer ; His being (as they judged him ).righteous in his owne eyes. In thenextverfe Elihu gives out a feverer Judgement agamf him then this ; To be at all righteous in our owne eyes (according to the fence intended) argues aman to be both very blind and very proud, but for a man tobe fo righteous inhis ovine eyes, as that he dares juftifie himfelfe rather then<the moil righteousGod , argues not only blindneffe and pride ;. but pride and blafphemy ; yet thus faith Elihu of fob; as it followeth. Verf. a.: Then was kindled the wrath of Elihss the fon ofBara- chel the Buzite ofthe kindred of Ram: aoainfh fob was his wrath kindled ., becanfe he jutifsed himfelfe rather then Clod. Here comes in the fourth fpeaker,as a-moderator or determi- ner of this great difpute ;.And he begins, much unlike amodera- tor, ina heater Then was kindled_ the wrath of Elihs. Noma bit eft It is very common for mentogrow hot in difpute , but for a difkutádi a£lur, manto begin his difpute withanhear, that's very ftrange ; many nova aim' ar_ have been all in a flame upon a little difcourf, but tobe in a canto for-flame upon the entrance of a difcourfe, isa thine, almoft. unheard ma, tanta.fub- p b tiliorqudtoma- of. Yet thus it was with this man; gn in feipfara reflexá, Nam; Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu: videtur ergu- The Hebrew is, his nofo or nofirills were angry. The Metaphor mentari (utlo- gici ioquunrur) is taken from Horfes, Bears, Lyons, Bulls , or any furious crea_ gyafi ad hoed- tuses, who fend forth fumes of wrath or anger at their noftrills, nem, ex ipfss The blood at the heart of an angred angry man is enflamed, and 'obi verbs he, as it were, breaths out fire and fmoake at his mouth and no diFts. Pined> frills. Eli& came in a flame to this bufineilfe. How unceffant were the oppolitions of fob! nofooner had thofe three aten ceafed fpeaking but a fourthrifeth up to fpeake. The Good

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