map, 42. An' Expofition upon the Bookof Jos. Verf. 9 92 3 orificewhich made thefe men go to Job and humble themfelves , they perceived there was hope now, and that though they had failed, yet the Lord was ready to receive them, and would not deal with them according to their folly,ashe told themhe would, if they did not (according to his command) go co Job with their !even Bullocks, &c and offer up abtont- offering. 'rbey went and did as the Lordcommanded them. But what came of it ?how did they fined ? what was the gut of all ? The Text faith, The Lord alfoacceptedJob. This may feema (}range conne6ion ; they going and doing as theLord commanded them, one would have thought, it fhculd be laid, And the Lord accepted them, whereas the Text faith only thus, The Lordalfo acceptedJob. But werenot jobs friends accepted ? (hall we think that they loll their labour ? not fo neither ; without all queflion thefe three heinging their facrifice according to the .command of God, both tor ¡natter and manner, were accepted too : yet, becaufe it was at the requelf and prayer of fob for them, therefore the Text faith not, The Lord accepted, bur,The Lord alfo accepted Job; h cc W a that is, he offering facrifice, and praying for them, they were ac- hov lóbio- cepted. This fheweth us the greatmyfiery, or the fum of the eerdei an- Gof'uel; the Lord did not accept them in themfelves, but he ac- genrirna:ine cepted Job in facrificing for them, and all in Chriff. And confi- chrrfíifacer- de , TA isnot raid, The Lord accepted the facrifice, or the prayer doris, do vi- of 7,4, but, The Lordaccepted Job ; his perfon was accepted in 9mo eeo p and though the facrifice or interceffion of Chrif+, and his fatti- ,qua : :47. 'fice and intetceffion for Eliphaz and his two friends were accept- n, jun ed alfo in him. How the Lord refiified his acceptance of Job, whether by confuniipg his facrifice with fire from heaven, or by any other outward token of his favour, is not here expreffed, and therefore to us uncertain only this is certain, and that is enough for us to 'know, that God accepted him. What it is to accept, was (hewed in opening theformer verfe In brief, tobeaccepted, is to have favour with God, our_peti- tions anfwered, and the things done which we move or petition for, The Lirdal fo acceptedJob. Bbbbbb And
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