To theChri[}ian Reader. andbottom., than the former; andhe not ending his life in this world, till he wasfull ofdays, fuller of grace, and fully fitted for an endlefs life inglory. Thiss, as in the foregoing partsof this book, . we have heard of the patience of rob, fo in this we may fee (as the Apoflle James faith, chap, 5. it r .) the endof the Lord. But what was that endof the Lord? Any man of ordina- rycapacity; reading the holy fiory, may refolve it in the common way, that, The Lord gave yob twice as much as he had before, that (be- ing refiored) his feven thoufand (beep were multiplyed to fourteen thoufand , his three thoufand camels tofix thoufand, his fivehun- dredyoke ofoxen to a thoufand, andhis five hundred fhe.affes to as many. This end ofthe Lordwith Job is obvious, and runs in fight to every Reader ; nor can it be denied, but that this was a very good and an honourableend yet, behold, the Lord made a much better, and morehonorable end for Job than this. This was the endofJobs crofs ; that,wasnot only fo, but .alto of his controverfie. Satan charged Jobas anHypocrite, bis friends joynedwith Sataai in that, yetflayednot there, they chargedhimliL.e- wife as Hetorodox, as a man not only unfin- cere
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