336 Chap.S. AnExpofitionupon the Book,,of JOB, Verf. 19. cioufly with a people; He can drefs our wounds; and Paine us lit- k tie, fcarce be felt while hedoth it. And he bath the Lions heart, infinitecourage andflrengtb ofhis fpirit, to undertake the molt gafily wounds or fwollen putrified (ores. Let us therefore yell our felves affured, that whatfoever our perfonal or our national! fores,our perfonall or our national wounds be, be they what they will, or what we can call them,defperate, incurable, fuch as have difcourag'd many from medling with their cure,or (ham'd thole that have ; yet our Sbaddai the Almighty God, can bind them up and heale them, fetch the core from the bott®me, and clofe the skin upon the top, fo tenderly drefs, and fo perfeCdly cure them, tkiat a fcarre (hall not rernaine, unlefs it be to mind us of his infinite skil aid goodnefs, or ofour own duty and thankful - nefs. JOB, Chap, 5. Verf. 19,20, 21, lief/Ian deliver thee infix troubles yea infeaven there(hall no evil touch thee. It:famine hefhall redeem theefrom death,and in war f -om thepower of the(word.. Thou (halt be bidfrom the [courge of the tongue, neither(halt thou be afraidofdeftruelion when it cometh. ELiphaz frill profecuteth his former Argument,to take lob off fromdefpifng the cbaffnings of the Almighty, fpoken of at the 17th verfe. And having (hewed firfl in general, that they are happy whomtheLord eorreet ? and fecondly, That the Lord heals as well as wounds, is as ready to bind up as to make fore he illufirates this by giving, - Firfi; An affurance ofdeliverance from evil, and that, r. In the general, at the 19th verle. 2. By an enumeration of particular cafes ofgreatefl dangers and outward evils. And fecondly, to thew the happinefs of thole whom God cor- tees, hegives an affurance ofpolitivebleffings, which (hall in due time be heaped upon their heads, whom God had before woun- ,ded with forrows, and loaded with afidions. Thenineteenth verfe is a promife of deliverance from evil H
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