Chap. 40. an Expefuionspan the BookofJo a. Verf. 6, 52,9 more doubt of his juRice, nor accule his judgements of feverity, nor would he any more defire to debate with God as he had done. Nor can thefe things be preffed too often upon the holieft a- mongmen, man being not only bynature altogether unbelieving, but having fo much unbelief mingled with his graces, as fad ex- perience teacheth him at all times, efpecially in times of great affli &ion and temptation. So much of the wholeanfwer, and the Rate of it; now for the particulars. Verf. 6. Then the Lord anfwered Job out of the whirlwind, andfail, Then. That is, when Jo6 faid he could not, or he would not anfwer, or had no more to anfwer, Then, the Lord anfwered ; or, to go a little further. 7ben. When fob had humbled himfeif, and raid he was vile, even then the Lord anfwered him, and he anfwered him out of t he whirlwind. Then the Lord anfweredJob. Not fo much to his fpeech as to his f:lencs ; for rob refolved to fay no more, yet the Lord anfwered ; and the Lord anfwered bin; Oiet of the whirlwind. At the firRverle of the 38th Chapter, we read of this wbirl- tvind, and of the Lord anfwering out of it. What a whirlwind is, was there opened, and feveral points of obfervation given from it, which I (hall not now at all touch up- on, nor meddle with ; and yet, though the words in this 6th verle of the q.o. Chapter, are the very fame with thole in the fir ft verle of the 38th Chapter, yet from their placing and their repeating here, we mayprofitably take notice of Come things for our inftru&ion. Then the Lord anfwered Jobout of the whirlwind, andfail, The whirlwind beinghere fpoken of a fecond time, 'tisqueftioned by fome, whether this were a whirlwind of greater force, or of lefa than the former, or the fame. The ground of the querie is from little variation which is in the Hebrew Text. In the 38th Chap- ter anArticle is prefixt to the word whirlwind,which (fay Come) Y yy intends
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