I¡I 90 Chap. 42. An Expofition upon the Rocket' J o a. Verf. 13. had a double eflate, nor more than they (houid have had before. Forty proportionably divided among twenty, yields each of them no greater a portion, than twenty will do to ten. Nor was ir, Fifthly, Becauîe the Lord would not have him over-burdened with cares about their education ; none of thefe wereany reafon, why jobs children were not doubled to him in number, as well as his cattle. And therefore, I anfwer affirmatively, Firfl, For the word double, or twice es much, in the Texr,which this feems not to come up unto, we may eafily falve that difficul- ty, for the Text fpeaks not of perlons, but of things, or of his fub(lance, with refpe& to doubling or a twiceas much. As for his children they come in with an elfo, as an additional bleffing to all the tell He had a/fo feven foes, and three daughters. Secondly, Thofe words twice as much , need not be taken flriCtly, as was {heaved before ; Job might, and doubtlefs did re- ceive a double mercy "in his children, though their perlons were not doublednor multiplied, as will appear further afterwards. Thirdly, I anfwer, it was the pleafure of the Lordi to give him no more than the fame number of children, and that may ftffice us. Fourthly, Some of the Ancients are much pleafed with this other anfwer, Paying, job, in a fence, had his children doubled ; for his (lain children were not loll, but gone before, and lived (fill in a blefled flare : They having immortal fouls, and being the feed of the righteous, their father had reafon to believe them Tibi non perit fafe in Abrahams bofome. Thofe children are not loft to their gin i3eonon parents when they dye, who are not loft to god, or are not tbemfelves petit. loft children. Nonnuotero Fifthly, Though Jobs children were not doubled in number as fed valore, his cattle were, yet we may judge them doubled to him ingood- quodocculyd nefs and vertuous ualities. The beauty of his daughters is ex- infinuatur in 9 y fiticobus,gwe prefely noted in the following words : And (hall we think that pulrlaerrims God, who had a bleffing for Job, bleffed his children only with fu; a tegunrun fading bodily beauty ? doubdefs, their minds were more richly Aquin. indowed, and their fouls more beautiful than their bodies. And if Jobs daughters were fuch, we may well conceivehis Sons were not inferiour to them in gracious qualifications, and that they much exceeded the fons he had before his afflio`lion. Some have fpoken
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