OA. 526 Chap. 34. An Expoftion upon the Boolz,of J o B. Verf. 6. von, doloratam very dolorous, ,t)g ievous, but mifchievous, mortall, and deadly. peillnd ha,ben- And from this word man is called Enafh in the Hebrew, to thew gem bin En'tí h how i:ahrme and fraile he is, finhaving given him, a wound which mile et ,i fi is incurable, by any thing but the blood of Jefus Chrifl. Yob felt itare ditto, his wounds, and he fpake of them, as a man fwaliowed up with defperation, and expeeóed no cureof his prefent fad condition ; Mywound is iñcurable, and he concluded with that which isyet harder, My Wound is incurable Without tranfgre f on. Mr. Broughton tranflates, My flroak is fore without trefpajfe. yob in Paying his wound was incurable , !hewed a defedl in his faith, but in laying it was incurable without tranfgreflìon,he feem- eth to flew his defeól in truth. For finely had there not been tranfgrellion in him , there had never been a wound upon him ; God had never fo much asbroken our skin but for fin ; Man haul never felt fo much as the fcratch of a pins poynt by the hand of God, if he had not once prevaricated and Apoflatiz'd fromGod. We ow all our forrows toour fins,all our woundings toour tranf- greffings. How then doth yob- fay, Mywound it incurable without tranfgrefJion z The word here ufed is not ufually rut to fignifie fin ingenerall ( though fore take it fo ) but fame fpeciall kind of vttndenorat Gn,& that of more thenan ordinarydegree,a fin with a malignity, gravefells a provoking fin ; As if the meaning of Elihu were, that he heard vel tipofaft- yob fay, Though his fin were not great , though it were not any sata. Scult: rebellion againfl light , nor dangerous Apoflacy, though his were a very curable fin, yet his wound was altogether incurable, his wound was great, though his fnwas little. Now, becaufe Juflice doth ufuallyapportion the punifhment inflióled both to the na- ture andmeafure of the fin committed, therefore elihu takes it (aridhe had toomuch occafion to doe fo) as a great reflection upon the juflice of God,when he heard fob thus bemoaning him- felfe, Mywound is incurable without tranfgrefon. To receive the leafl wound without tranfgrellion, is a great wound to juflice, how greatly then doth he wound the Jufrice of God, who faith he hath received a great, yea an incurable wound without tranfgref- But where fpake fob there words, when Paid he, My woundit Incurable without tranfgrefon, (we muff bring in that, Yob bath faid,
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