392 Chap. 33. An Expofttorr sapon the Bcok,of J o B. Verf. 4. to Iefus Chrifl in the word of 'nonlife ; Then he is gracious. 2111 M :ferns«, TheOriginall word hath many comfortable lignthcations in ir, grarificants, y;;t all refolvable into this one, be asgraciosss. It lignifies to pity, grans profecu- to have connpaffion, tenderly to regard, tobeflow grace, to doe ra lonavitbé- good; there isenough in the bowel's of this word to bear up the nefecit. fpirit of the fickeft body, or of the moll troubled foul. It is laid ( Gen. 6.8.) Noah found grace (or favour) in the eyes ofthe Lord. Noah was theonly man that held out the graceof God in that age, him only did God find perfea or upright in his Generation ( Gen. 6. 9.) and Noah-onlywas theman,that found grace or favour in the eyes ofthe Lord in that generation ( Gen. 6. S.) Godwas-gracious tohim and his, when the whole world peri-laed bywater. That proper name Sohn is derived from this word ; when God gave Zachary and Elizabeth a Son in their old age, he alto dire&ed how he would have him called, ye(hall call his namè Tehn, which name (as we may well conceive) was alligned him either becaufe God did very gracioufly and favou- rably beflow that gift upon his Parents in their old age, and fo fbewed themmuch favour (a child at any time is agreat favour fromGod, efpecially in oldage) or, fecondly, becaufe fohn was to open the Ringdameof Grace, topreach the Gofpel, and topre- pare the way for Chrifl, by whom grace and truth came. The Baprifl was as it were the loop and button between the legali and theGofpel difpenfation ; therefore his name might wellbe cal- led Ielm. And there is frequent ufe in Scripture-of the Adverb which comes from this -Verb, to Ggnifie injuries received without defert orundefervedly. (Pf. 7.4..) Tea -, I have delivered him that without caufewas mine enerny,orthat was mine enemygratie. And again(Pfal.3 5.7 .)For without caufe have they hidfor metheir net in apit, which without caufe have they digged for my foul. Yet more,as the word fignifies the doing of good (gratis) or when there is nodefert ; fo any injury donegreai,, or when noprovo- cation bath been given the party fo to doe. Now, as all the mil- chief which the wicked plot agatnft or doe to the people of Good is undeferved, and fiowethmeetly from their malice, fo all the goodwhich God Both for his people is, undeferved, and floweth purely from the fountaine of hisfree grace, orfrom his compafli- on5, which faille not. AndPurely the Lord defervethhigheft prai- fesfromman for any good he doth him, Peeing what he doth is tali, or undeferved. Further,
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