Chap. 42. An Expof:tion upan the Boak.of J ò B. Verf. a j 9.91 life rctlored to him than Chofe ; his efface reFored double in cattle was nothing to his children re(lored tingle, as it follows in the next words. Verf. 13. He had alfo fever font, and three daughters. This is the third part of fobs reflauration fans and daughters. We may confider this bleffiag, Firtf, In the number, Secondly, In the fex. to number, his children were leven and three. M to fex, they were both fans and daughters ; he had [even Cons and three daughters; in all ten, jut} the number he had before, as we read at the fecond verle of the firfi chapter. Some of the'Jewi(h Rabbles (before fpokenof) fay, his former children were nor indeedMain, but removed during the time of his afliielion, and thar,being ended, were retlored the Came bosh in number and perfon. This is as groundlefs a dream as the other about his cattle, and fo I leave it. For, That his children were really [lain with the fall of the houfe where they were feafting, the hitiory makes evident in the fir(i chapter ; and that he had the fame number of children (not the fame children) reffored, is all that is evident in this. Only here a quetfion arifeth , and fome trouble themfelves much about it, to little purpofe, how to make good that of the 8th ver. where 'cis faid,TheLerdgave Job toice ar mach as he had before, whenas he had but juff Co many Ions and daughters as he had before. Here is no doubling of them, and it may be thought, that the Lord, being' now bleffìng his latter end more than his beginning , (-hold(' have given him more children, double children, becaufe the more children the °mater is the Netting. I anfwer, Fish, Negatively. The reafon why his children were not double, though his cattle were, was nor, "Fit ft, Out of any want of po,ver in God, he could have doubled his childrenas well as his cattle. Nor was ir, Secondly, For want of love or good will to )yob, Nor was ir, Thirdly, (As, one of the Anti- Tertul,1ib. de ems, Tertullran, gives the rearm) that job might never want Patientia.c,14> fomething to exercife his patience with while he lived, forafmuch as he faw himfelf (hortned in that mercy. Nor was ir, Fourthly, (As Aping,' conceived ) becaufe, if his children had been doubled as well as his etizte, then his children would not have had ii
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