Chap. I q. VII Expofitiau%port theBookof Jo H. Verf, g. But God juflly, and in much wifdomer fharpned the fpiritof Elihre,to fpeak cuttingwords to Job, that lob feelingthe fmart, right be made fenfible of his errour, and at fail be brought low, and broken under his hand. Milde wordsmay skina fore befo: e 'cis fearcht to the bottom, and fo not only retard theCure, but endanger the Patient. The holy Apoffle fore-feeingthe murmur- ings, quarrels and difputes which flefh and bloodwoald make about Eleelion or Prcdeflination, loth not goabout fo much to anfwer them by Reece, as to repretfe them by a wrong Reproof; and vehement Objurgation, (Rom. 9.1o.) Nay, but Oman, avho art thou that replyefi againfl God! ¡hall the thing formed, fay to him that formed it, whyhaft. thou made me thus t loath not the Patterpowerover theClay ? &c. Now as about that unfearchable depth of eternal Ele&ion,fo about prefent dreadful diCpenfarions, and providences, our undue reafontngsand tumulcuating thoughts of hearr, concerning God, breaking our bounds, and forgetting with whom we have CO do, or who bath to dowith us, call for and deferve fharpefl reproofs ;, who are you that reply againf#God l Who are you that think this to be right whichyou do , or any thing wrongwhich God.loth ? Who are you, that you fhould prefume tofay (fo muchas by inference)that your righteoufneft is more thanGods, or, that itas any thing compared with the righteoufnefsof God I Thou hall faid, my righteoafn.efs is more thanGodr.. What Yob had faid, which mryght give colour for this accufatiors, ,hath been touched before, in the mention of More Speeches, or Paffages, forced from him by the greatnefle of hisfuffering. But Elihugives it us yet more expreflely in the next verfe.. Verf, 3. For thoufaidfi, What advantage will it beunto thee,, and what profi't¡hall lhave, i f I be clear,fed from my fn? M ifhe ',pad laid, O fob, If thou fhouldefl ask me when or where thouhall laid, My righteo tfne¡s it more thanGods P or how can I prove that thou hall Paid fo ? I may foon anfwer thee, and afily prove it thus, thouhall Laid, What advantage will it beunto thee? &c. Thou hall fpoken as ifno good were to be 'gottenby turning f,-omevill ; or that thou fufferell evil, being thy felt free, at lcall turned from doing evil and that therefore_ t availeth thee.
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