44$ Cliap. 6. An Expofition upon the Eookof JOB. Vert. 7' fed the tounfel of his fritd, who binifelf was h;imbls, at a fir- Tant. To which I anfwer, that the. counfcls of Eiipbaz are to be here confidered, ehher in the doctrine, or in the rife. His counfcls, in the doctrine of them, were good and favoury, he fpake wholfom foods but as to fobs ca(e,he was quite miffaken in their ufe:and fo inf}ead of eafing,troubled him. A Ph} fì ian maygive his fikk patient,that which is food in it felt, very cor- dial and foveraign, and yet it may kill him iuitead of curing him, if it be not proper for his body, and his difeafe. Thus it is alfo ingiving counfel, what we fpeak muff be fitted to the per- fon,and to the feafon ; there are many good counfcls of which we may fay,asHufhai did of Acbiropbels ill ones,aSa.17. 7.7bey are not good at tbù time. That which is good counfel to a man at one timr,may be,or might have been, ill to the fame man at a- nother,/ bave many things to fay ,faithChrifl,but ye cannot bear them uüw Joh. i 6 r z.Aiod that w ch one man can bcar,another can- not at the fame time. And therefore the Apoftle was made al things to all men, i Cor: g zAnd accounted himfelf debtor,both to the wife,and to the foolifh,to the learned andunlearned, to the weak and to the ftrong;that is, he looked upon it as his duty,,o fpeak trurhs,fuiting the Bate of every degree and fort of men which is the meaning of his rule to all the difpenfers of holy myfteries,that they divide theword aright:[Le rightnefs refpeas not ouly,or not fo much,the fubjcct,or word divided,as the (Oct, or perfons towhom the divifion is to be made, in giving every one his portion,or food convenient for him.0nemanmay for- feit with that which another dig: fts kindly, what fattens a fe- cond,may fickenor (larve a third. This plainly is the meaning of J bswhat Eliphaz. had faid,was not favoury food for him,nor dreft for one in his condition:his foal did even refute to touch, what he fpake,becaufe his foul was not of that temper,for which Eüpbaz had fitted his fpeech; he was a phyfrtian of no value to him, bccaufe hebrought a wrongpotion, and miftook his cafe his was good fearching phyfick for the foul ftomack,and grofs fpirit o a hypocrite :but it isenough tokill the heart of an reprigbt heart,whenGod fecrosangry with him, & appears againft h m, whenhe is fmitten withour,and fmiten within by fore afflictions of mind & body;then for his comforters to finite hire with their tongucs,to lay at him with hard wotds,&wound himwith tuhir
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