Chap. q.. 4n Expofition upon the Beokof J O B. Verf. r, His fecondArgument beginningat the feventh Verfe and car- ried on to the twelfth, is grounded upon a fuppofed inequallity of Gods prefcnt dealing with him,in reference tit) his former dealings with godly men. Eliphaz thought thus, furely Job is an Hypocrite, otherwife God would have dealt wi,h him, as with an innocent; Remember (-faith he) I pray thee,who ever periff edbeing innocent ; I will con- vince thee by ail examples, by what foever is upon Record, in the flifaory of all Ages, that thou art an Hypocrite, a wicked perfon for fee if thou canit find_an inftance in any Story, of an innocent perfon perilhing. That is his fecond Argument. His third Argument is continued from the twelfth Verfe to the end of this fourth Chapter ; atmd that he might make the deeper impreflionupon Jobs fpirit,he brings it in with a dreadful Pream- ble : a Villon from God, at once terrifying and inftruEting him, thus to realm down the pride of man. The Argument it felt is coucht in the feventcenth verfe. I t is drawn from an evidence of presumption in all fucla, as (hall dare to implead Gods juffice, or plead their own : as if Eliphaz had Paid, furely thou art a proud and a wicked perfon, for there wag never any godlyman upon the face of the Earth, no nor any Angel in Heaven, that durit be fo bold with God as thou haft been ; Shall mortal man (faith he) be more jug then God ? fball a man be more pure thenbú Maker ? Be- hold heput no truft in his fervants, and bis Angels he charged with fll f His fourth Argument begins at the fifth Chapter,and ends with the fourth verfe ; and ii is taken from the unlikenefii of fobs carriage under his affliEfioxs, to that which any of the Saints in any age of the World did ever (how forth under their ai}]iE#ions. He that carries himfelf fo,as none of the Slintsever carried them- felves,gives an evidence against hisSaintlhip.Callnow to the Saints, either thole now living upon the Earth, or fearch the Records concerning all the Saints that ever lived, confider, and lee whe- ther thou canti obferve or read anyparallel of thy complaints,aud unreafonable expo flulations. So much for the fumn of his con - vieions. Then Eliphaz turns himleIf to admonition and exhortation in the following part of the fifth Chapter : and there are two Heads of his admnbnitory exhortation, Fir(i he admoniihcs him, to leek unto God and to call upon 13 2 him
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