Chap. 3 5. tzfn Expofition upon the Book of Jon. Verf. 7. re9 and corruption': They may think their Faith (irong; or that they trua fully in God, theymay think th.mfelves patient and humble under the hand of Gcd, and yet begreatly defetkive in the work - ing ofall thefe Graces ; I mean not filch a deficiency only, as is common to all believers ( the hea come fhort in the exer-cife of grace) but fome great deficiency may be, and yet the foul not fenfible of ic. As fotne are over fenlible of their failings, com- plaining that theyhave no Faith, noPatience, when they nor only have Faith and Patience,as to their Being,but as to their wo,king alto, and po(liibly,working well. (It is a different wo:k of the Spirit., toa k and air upGrace in us, and to difcover to us the a&ings and (lirrings of Grace) Now as force god1t men a& Grace,and know it not,fa in others that are godly trace a&s nór, and they know it not ; Faith is down,and they know it not; they can bear little or nothing patiently, yet they take no notice of ir. Thus the words of Elihu concerning job, he knoweth it not, refers to the former part of the verfe, It is not fo ; that is, his Graces a& nor, yet he takes nonotice of it, but thinks Faith and. Patience, with other Graces, workwell enough. Secondly, As not knowing refers to the vifitationof God, Fie bath vifsted him in his anger, andhe knoveth it not (yea, though) in great extremity, though he have a very hard tirate of it. Hence Note, Firfl, Agood man may not only be vifsted, but extreamly vifsted by the hand of God; He may be under many extremitiesat once ; extreamly vi(ired inBody, extreamly in Mind, extreamly in his Relations, extream- ly in his Name, extreamly in all his worl, ly concernments. As there is nooutward evil, for the matter, fo none for the degree, but a good man may be in it. Let its be mode rare in judging thole, who are in the extreametl extreatmities of fuffering. Secondly, Note ; Some goodmen, or good men fomtimes sander very great e ira- ons, are norfenfble ofthe hand ofthe Lordupon them. As a goodman may receivemany mercier, and yet not ()Verve (at prefenr) how, or from whom he receives them, fohe may be under angryviírations or difpenfations in great extremity, and S not
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