'464 Chap. 3 3. An Expoftion aspon the Book, of J o B. Verf. 29, hehath done for my footle. What God cloth for our bodyesis very confiderable, but what he bath done for our foules can never be enough confidered nor admired. Lo, all thefe things workethGod oftentimes with man. The originali is twice, thrice, fowe put in the margin,and ren- tD62u1 der it often-times, in the text. Some expound it, of chofe three diflineî wayes,inwhich God dealeth with man,before defcribed. °T1 "- The Septuagint are expreffe for that; All thefe things worketh the P;atut ° firone God three wayes with man, Which the Scholiafi exert-1ph ros q fies in the three wayes here noted by Eliks. Firfl awakning im ,44 uo- Y Y $ nvas Sept: by dreames and vifions; Secondly, troubling him by fickneffes Zia re aa- and afflidions ; Thirdly, teaching himby Prophetsand Interpre- 'my 9072741. ters. Yet, Iconceive, the text lothnot flriUly recapitulare thofe schol, three feverall wayes before fpoken of, in thefe words , twice, thrice, but only fhewesus that Godufeth all thefe wayes or any other, as his wifdome (hall thinke fir, many times, or oftentimes for the producing of thofe blefl'edeffeós. Lo,all thefe things worketb godoftentimes with man. Twice, thrice, is a double certainnumberput for any Tingle uncertain number; And itonly teacheth or affurethh us, that God debatethwith the fons of men in all or any of thefe wayes often- times, or more then once. If they doe not anfwer his call or pill.- pofe ( which they feldome doe) at the &íl; he calleth againe and againe, twice or thrice, or often-times, that is as ßftenas he feeth it good, needfull or expedient todoe it. And we may fup- pofe that Eliha ufeth this number twice, or thrice, in allufion to the cuflomes of men ; whether civil Magiflrates or Churches, who when they deale with others about any fault committed or offence given, they doe not take them at the very firf+ default, but warne and admonifh them twiceor thrice, or fend them (as the cafe may require) feverall Citations to appeare, and either to acknowledge their guilt, or acquit themfelves of it. 'Theft things worked) God twiceor thrice. iriGusv¢cibrar, And remember,it is but twiceor threee;which' fpeech though it i.e. múttotier, maybe well rendred(ás we fay)oftentimes,yet it is nor very often; fed utitur nu- once is no number, twice is the leafl number, and thrice is but a otero tornado, final!
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