*4 Chap, , 'Expofitlort upon the Book of J O B. atezzar, Dam 3.27, to fee the three children come out cif the fiery furnace, without a hair oftheir beads t nged, without any change of their coats, or the finell of fire. fo much this import', thou (halt pafs the pikes,throu ;hfix,yea andfeven,a whole armyoftrou- bles, and no evil fhall touch then. When the woman told the tempting Serpent, Godbathfail, yefhall not Bate of the fruit of the tree in the midit ofthe garden, nor touch it, Gen. 3. 3. She im- plyed a chargeof total abilinence. And when the 'Lord faith, No evil(ball teach thee, it impliesa promife of total deliverance. Iir the fìrtl and fecond chapters of this book( and it is the fame o. riginal word) Satans begs leave ofGod,that hemight touch lob, and touch all he had, Now here Eliphaz teems to touch that firing, No evil fhali touch thee ; as if he had faid, God will not let his fernants be overwhelnfd ( as thouart ) with evils, no evil than fo much as touch them. And the truth'is, though "Sa- tan obtained leave of God, to of iet the body ofJob with pains, and he made it all over as one wound, yet no evil touched him, in the fence here intended : Though yob was all over evil fores, yet there was not fo much as the leali fearre of an evil uponhim,Trou- bles toucb't him, but evils did not ; And troubles may touch thefer. wants ofGod, but evil(hall not. Hencc obferve, Godfaves anddelivers his people from all evil, even while they gre in the midit oftrouble. Ile delivers as well in trouble,as frotp trouble; while trouble is continued, good may be enjoyed. While his are in the water and in the fire, God is with them, and his pretence is more then deli- verance. (Ifa 4.3.2.) IfGod bewith us, though all evils are upon us, yet no evil touches us. The pretence of the cheif good, it ba eifhment to every evil. Asa wicked man may be loaded with good things, and yet noneof them touchhim; that is, doe him a- ny good ; fo a godly man may be loaded with evils, and yet noneof them touch him, that is, doe him any hurt. And thus, we may underfand that ofthe Apoftle (r Cor. ro. God is fa thful, who will not flier you to be tempted above that Jon are able, but will with the temptation alfo make a way äo efcape ; thatyemay be able to bear it. Temptation you íball have, but with temptation, even while temptation is upon you, or while ye are in temptation, The Lord will make a way for you to a cape the evil of that temptation. Thus with or in trouble, we have deliverance. To be kept from the evil of trouble is Verf. iç
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