Chap 4p, An Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. 3. free difcourfesbefore,andpromifingthat he would run that courfe nomore. Verf. 3. ThenJob atfwered the Lord, andfaid, What he faid byway of anfwer, followeth. Verf. 4. Behold, I am vile, what (hall I anfwer Behold. fob doth not conceal nor cover, but calls all eyes to the view of his own vilenefs. Behold. Let God behold, let An- gels behold, let men behold, what now I my Pelf behold, that Iam vile. Tne root of the word, which we eradiate vile, lignifies three Lip Et lever; things. Fira, Tobe light, or oflittle weight ; and becaufe light Qgvilem ac things are lightly efieemed, therefore it lignifies, Secondly, To rT%sht mi. be contemned, or that which is contemptible ; and, Thirdly, Be- caufe light things, and things contemptible, are altovile things ; therefore, as we eradiate, it lignifies vile. As if job had faìd, /on light, I have no fubftance, nofolidity in me, I am bat al chaff, or, as afeather,I bear noweight,I deferve no of, eem, no refpcEl, I am" vile. As theHebrewword for honour andglory is derived from a root which fignifies heavinefror weightinefs,whence the Apofiles phrafe in the Greek tongue (2 Car... 57.) which we tranflate, . an exceeding weight of glory. Glory is fuch a weighty thing, that we mull have other manner of fhoulders, other manner of firength, than now we have, before we can be able to bear the weight of it. Flefh and.blood, as it is unrefined, or meetly natu- ral, would loon fink under that weight. Now I fay, as glory and honour ere expre(l by a wordwhich lignifies weightinefr ; fo that which is vile and contemptible, is expre(i by a word that figni-- fies bg. htnefs,or to be light. Thus faith ob, Behold; I am light, or, Behold, I am vile. There are two other tranfiations of thele words ; whereof,the one refers to the fpeeches, the other to the aftions of lob. Firs, The old Latine tranflation faith thus ; I have fpoken levtter lo- lightly; how (hall Ianfvertbee? Ours refers to his,perfon , I am quutarfion ro- lrght, or, I amvile; that to his words, I havefpoken lightly. To f® deee tug fpeak lightly, or vainly, is to be vain and light. So:ne words have agreat deal of weight in them r words of truth, words of fober- oafs, 511
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