Chap.4a. an Expofition upon the Boob, of J o B. Vert. S. 8a3 have beard it before, but nowfee it. Seeing notes the higheh know- ledge ; then we fee what wehear, whenwe fully underhandwhat we haveheard. Thus they expound this Text, who judge there was nooutward vifion at all, but that lobs feeing was only fpiri- tuai and intelle&ual. Secondly, Others affirm, that fob had anoutward apparition, and that the eye of his fenfe was affe fled. And concerning this, Firh, Some are fomuch of this opinion, that they fay Chrih appeared inhumane fhape to Job, as hedid to many of the holy Patriarks and Prophetsof old ; which apparitions areby the An- cients called preludes to his incarnation. And fome Jewifh Writers tell us, that Job upon this fight of God, had a fpirit of prophetic ut they need not infix upon that, for fe- veral have had apparitions, who were no Prophets. Secondly, others fay, the appearance of God to fob was only in or by a cloud, with the whirlwind. But that he had a vifion or fight of God one way or other,, is afferted, as by many of the Jewifh Writers, fo by mot} of the Chrifiian Ancients. And doubtlefs, when the Lord fpake to himout of the whirl- wind, he had a vifion, or an extraordinary manifefiation of God, even to his eye - Not that God in himfelfcan be feen, Tj man herb feen God at anytime (i John 4. t a.) It is reported by the Jewifh Writers, that the Prophet Ifaiahwas fawnafunder by his own Nation, for Paying, that he had feen the Lord (If& 6. r.) 'law the Lord fitting upon a throne, high and liftedup. This they counred.blafphemy, and put him to death for it, fay fome yet others fay, hewas put to death- for his plainnefs in reproving the Princes and people of ¡frael, in chofe words (Ifa. 't. to.) Hear the word of the Lordye Rulers of Sodom, giveear to the Law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. But of that by the way. I fay, God in himfelf cannot be feen ; he is feenonly by thofe vifible demonf}rations of his pretence, which he is pleafed to make of himfelf, as here he fpake to Sob out of the whirl- wind. I conceive we may take inboth ; fo that whenjob fpeaketh of his hearing by the ear, he intends that teaching which he had in former times by the Minihry of his Anceflors : And that, when be faith,, But now. Aline eye feeth thee, he intends that teaching which
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