Chap, 42. An Expofrtìonupon the ßookofJon. Vert tea. It 4.7 captivity of Sion (hall fully end ? wemay find an :ewer to that queftion bell, by the inlargement of our own hearts in prayer. David (peaking of that,faid (Pfal. 1Òz. t7.) Ile will regard the prayer of the defliroete (the meaneft and lowefl (lirubs in grace, as the word there ufed _imports) and not defrife (that is, he will highly ef}eem, and therefore anfweehctr prayer : How much more the prayer of the tall cedars is ace, or of the [tongwrel- lets, when they call upon him, an cry unto him, with all their might day and night'? The Lord tarred the captivity of Job when h eprayed for bid friends. Nor was it a bare turn. As job did not cffcr a lean facrifice to God in prayer, but the lrength of his foul went out in it ; fo thelLord,in giving him an anfwer,did not give him a lean or flight return, bu', as it followeth, Al fo the Lord gave job twice as much as hehad before. The Hebrew is, The Lord added to Job to the double. Some tranllate too barely,TheLordmade an accept: or an addition ; but that doth,not reach the fence intended : For, alittle more than he had before, had been an addition to what he had before; but double is more than a little, or the common notion of an additi- on,; the Lord gave him twice as much, or double, to that great elate which he had before. This doubling of his elatemay taken two ways. girl, Stri&ly, as four is twice two, and eight twice four. In See thewild that [rift fence it may be taken here,as tohis perfonal elate ; but conceits of as toperfons it will not hold, thenumber of his children was the the 'Lea fame as before. If wecompare this chapter with the fir[ chap- the doubbout P P P the doublìng ter (ver. 3.) we find his elate doubled inaria fence : Where- 0: 706: e(ìate, as 7o6 had then (-even thoufand fheep, now faith thischapter in Moreet up. (ver. t z.) be bad fourteen thoufand (beep ; and whereas before on theFlacé., he had three thoufand camels, now he had fix thoufand camels ; and whereas before he had five hundred yoke of oxen, now he had athoafand yokeof oxen; and lally, whereas before he had five hundred fhe des, now he had a thoufand the ales. Here was doublein the letter ; the Lord added all his cattle double in In dupl um, r,e, number : Yet we need not tye up the word double, or twice tie Pt pinworm. march, íari&ly to that fenfe. Therefore Guam plan- Secondly, Double maybe taken largely, and fo double or twice mum °"u""" at much, is very much. He added to him double, ,that is, he itJun. n +i-1 Eeeeec n made
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