Chip. 34. An Expofition ttFon the Book of J o B. Vert. 9. like thewicked , or in the.dayesof their fullnefs and profperity. If we fpeake or doe like wicked men, we have our amends in our hands if we are numbred with them, though we are not really of their number. Some good menwhen they have got much of the wo:ld about them make but an ill ufe ofit. Are wicked rich men proud? foare they in a great meafure,you may fee vanityin their houfes,and- fuperfluity upontheir tables, as if theyaltowere ma- king provifion for the fle1h to fullfiil the loftsthereof. Now if a godly man,when he hath the abundance of this worldmakes him- felfe more unfit for the nextworld; is he not in this like the wick- ed?or if whenGod layeth him low, he be full ofçomplainingsand have rifangs of heart againflthe dealings ofGod;what is this but to do like thewicked,who in their firaits quarrell with God,&blaf- pheme his name ? (lfa:8. alt.) When they are hungry and hard be- fiead, they curfe their Ged and their King. Thus the wicked doe ; and itwas the Devills plot to make j`ob do fo too ; and becaufe in the extremity of his fufferings he fpake Guth thingsas favour'd of a< murmuring fpirit, Elihu raxeth himas walking with wicked men. For as whenwicked men a& and fpeake like good men, it maybe faydthey goe in the company with thegodly, and walke with the workers of righteoufnefs, though they are flarke nought all the while,being ( as the Apoffle gives: their chata&er, Tit: t i 6. )l Abominable, di/obedient, and unto every good: worke. reprobate ; Sa fotne good men under temptation a& and fpeak like the wicked; yet retaine their goodnefs,and are as to the general( dateof their perlons, andbent of their hearts, acceptable, obedient, and en dined toeverygood worke. It will doe the wickednogood at Iafl, that they havethus gone incompany with thegood ; but it is very finfull forand hurtfull to good men; to goe in company or walk with wicked men , though it be but (as Ehhu makes his proofe -of it againfl 7ob) only in u ing.their Sibboleth,or fpeaking a language like theirs. Verf. 9. For he haxh jäyd; it profiteth a man: nothing that he . fhoulddelight hrmfelfe with God. I`íhàil, Firfl, open th : words a little, and then, Secondly, in-- quire, (as of the former ) howYob might fall under this aecufa-- tiotx. 543
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