Chap,43. An Expoftion upon the Book of o B. Verf. 14, 997 If any (hall further enquire; but were not his foes worthy per- fons , that they are put off thus flightly, and mention made only of their number, not of their weight ? Were they notlworchy to have fo much as their names recorded ? which honour, and much more, is done their fillers, the daughtersof fob. I anfwer, We may upon good ground believe, that Jobs feven font were worthy perfons, becaufe they were a great part, yea, the chief part of his reflored happinefs, for as children are better than riches, fo amongchildren, Ions are better than daughters, as being the more worthy fex. Sons, if not well qualified, are not only lefs worthy than daughters, but a great crofs to their father And therefore it would have been a diminifhing of fobs felicity, to have had Ions equal in number with the former, yet inferior in veríue and man -like qualities ; we may, for, this reafon, fafely conclude, that (though nothing be laid of their worth) that fobs font wereworthy perCons,or perfons of praife worthy gsaaliiies, But Icing we have nothing from divineauthority, but only from well-grounded rcafon, ro alTert concerning fobs Ions, I (hall not flay the reader in any further difconrfe about them ; but pro- ceed as the text Both with the daughters, concerning whom we have many things to,fay from divine authority. And, Eir(h; Their names mull not bepa(t with filence, And he called the nameof the firf Jemims He, That is,fob, I fay, it was he Though Tome maize a queflion whether it was he or no ? or whether fob gave the name,or the people ? I í11a41 determine it upon fob ; he Called the nameof the fzrf . The Hebrew lobe called the name of one. Every fir/ ù opie, 6ur every one is not fart ; and therefore to difiingui(h who this one was, we render the word Forfl. 'Tis-ulual in Scripture to call that one which isFïrl`.r Thus fpake Moles, defcribing the works of creation.(Gen. s.) So the .evening and the morning were the PO day a The Hebrew fir élly, is, ghe. stoning ;rash , and the morning wets, day:one. ..Any day is.otaeday, .the ,fjft_day was one day;:and the fixt day was one day,as well as the firii but the flit or
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