Chap.42. an Expo(rtion upea th Boelt of J o a. Verf.6. :49 he came to that acknowledgment.7ob faid(Cbap.4o.4.)I am vi/o; 2nd it might be thought,that had been repentance fuflicient : But though lob was then brought low, yet he was not brought low cnoughthe cryed,l amvilt,but till God fpake to him of Behemoth and Leviathan he repented not in duff and afhes. Ephrain.faid (Jer. 3 t ,18, t 9.)Thou ball cbaJlifed me, and 1 was chaflifid, at a bulioc unaccu/hmed to the yoke, : turn thou me, and I (hall be tura- ed ; thou art the Lord my God. Surely, after thatIwas turned, I repented ;and after that I was inflrufled, I ¡mote upon my thigh, Iwas afhamed, yea, even confounded, becaufe I didbear the reproach of my youth. The Lord never left fmiting Ephraim, ti!1 he madehim finite upon his thigh. If we donot come home in the work of repentance, by words, God will fetch us home with his rods. In the eighth place ; If we confider this repentance of job, withwhat followeth, prefently upon it, his reftauracion, Obferve; when we are deeply bumbled and brought low, we are near our exaltation. When joblay indull and afhes, God was about to fer him up. on a mountain, a mountain of profperity, and that a higher one thanever he was uponbefore(Tfal. 126. S, 6.) They that low in tears, ¡ball reap in joy ; they that go forth weeping , bearing precious feed, (halldoubtleft come again with rejoicing, bringing their ¡heaves with them. Therefore take the Apoffles ccunfcl (s Pet. 1.6.) Rumble your felves under the mighty handof God (and what then?)he will exalt youin due tinoe.The due time ofour lifting up is at hand, when we are laid lowand fincerely humbled under the hand of God. Jobs humiliation and reflauration did almofl fynchronize, or come near in time together. Ninthly, Note; True repentance endeth in truejoy. The word which ftgnifies to be grieved, fignifieth alio to re- Joyce; and Job found it fo, he was comforted as loon as fully humbled. Repentance iffueth in joy three ways.
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