290 Verf. 17; E.zpofitionupon the Book of Jon. Chap. 36. ólz i.i a rnpii evil wayer. Secondly, That in his Magiftratical capacity, or that imp!ee 'r'i, d being a Magill-rate, he hitd fulfilled the judgment of the wicked íra- e rr :rp ti cis that is, what wicked men , and tneìr bad Caufes wanted of ( 6 . i de uIít, vv'etght and t: uth, of-rig teoufne[s and goodnefs, that he filled up. im iiMOS et by favour, by accepting.their perlons, and giving countenance ro paries obiii, their wickedn°ls. Some charge him thus diredlly, Thou haft done Cajet. thepart or Office ofan unjuft ludg; when thou hadil power in ri.1 Totis _ thy hand, thou waft defective, limit, or Wanting, in dilcharging. lis f noe - the Dutyofan upright Judge, but didfl the work of a corrupt tia árß 7udiei- Judge ( corrupting Judgment) to the full ; therefore now Pk, Jlice and judgment take hold of thee. But (as I Paid before) this iuc:. o mcd is not a right Expofition of the Test ; for Elihrs never charged job with a finful courfe of life in former times, or before his af- flio}ion (ashis friends had done) though he charged himwith much fin inhis carriage under his afüiaions ; and it may be con- ceived, that jobheard Elihu more patiently and equally than he, heard his friends, becaufeElibiu dealt more equallyand candidly with him, than his F; iends did ; he did not lay it upon him, as if in the foregoing part of his life he had traded in wickednefs ; but only reproved him for his boldnefs,in dealing with, and appealing fo often unto God,inhis boars and ficknefs ; or, becaufe his fpirit was not broken enough, notwithflanding thofe fore breakings and lickneffes, with which he was afïlid}ed. So then, Elihra in laying this intended not thatfob load fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, either bya wicked converfarion, or by perverting Ju(lice in fa- vour of the wicked : Such a charge had been utterly inconfìftent with the Teftimonywhich God gave of him in the first Chapter of this Book. Therefore Secondly; Thou haft fulfilled the judgement of the wicked, may be underltood, firil, that Job had gone near, in his behaviour under his affiitlion,to do even almofi as Satan boafted, and prefumed to God he would do, in the fecund Chapter, that if God did but lay his hand home or doter upon him, and conch his bone and his flefh, then ( laid Satan) TOe trill caarfe thee to thy flee. Now, though Job did never, in the height, fulfill this wicked_opinion or judgement of the Dtvil concerning hit, yet by his often tomplainings of, and murmu,ings about the feuere dealingsOf God withhim,and his not pirtying him in his diftrefs,. he verged upon ir,he camefomewhat tovvards, and muchtoonear the
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