Chap. 42, an Expo/ition upon the Boo,i of Jo E. Verf. 9. was raid ) the fpeedinefs of their obedience,they went prefently ; fecondly, the willingnefs of their obedience, their minds were in the work, as well astheir bodies ; thirdly, the ch,eerfulnefs of their obedience, they went as if they had been to take a pleafing or pleafant Journey. They went ; and what did they? They went 913 Anddid according as the Lord commanded them. Their obedience was not only fpeedy, and willing, and cheer- ful, butexadt, Thefe words, hey did according as the Lordcom- manded them, yield us a great example of full, of complear obe- dience ; they notonly did what was commanded, but they did it as it was commanded, yea, and they did it becaufe it was com- manded, for that muff come in to make up the fulnefs of our obe- Singulare ea dience. Here is then a great example ofhumility, of modelly, of emplunt docii meeknefs, and of fubtniflion to the will of God, They went and lath et mode did according as the Lordcommanded them. What was that ? They iænee ut mpeta- brought theirfacrifice, firí , for kind, and fecondly, for number) bitate neic ma- as the Lordhad commanded them t The Lord commanded them levolentiafed tobring Bauch: and Rams; they brought them : The Lord corn- Pet impruden- manded them to bring feven Bullocks and feven Rams ; they tiam peccarunt brought them as the Lord commanded, both for kind and for Bea' number. Secondly, They brought them to Yob. The Lord laid, go tomy fervant fob ; they went to jobaccording as the Lord commanded them. Thirdly, We mull fuppofe they intreated job to undertake the Officeof a Reconciler, of aMediator, of a Prieff, betweenGod and them, according as the Lord commanded. Though this piece of their fub:niflion andobedience be not expreffed, yet it is intimated and implyed; nor could it be Omitted, it being not only a part, but the principal part, of that duty which the Lord laid upon them. Thus in all things they fubmirted and were obedient according to the command of the Lord. Firtl, In that we have all three namedhere in this matter of obedience Eliphaz, the Temanite, and Bildad the Sbubite, and Zophar theNaamatbite, went, A a a a a a Obfervc ;
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