454 Chap. 6. An Expofitionupon the Bookof J O B. Verf B. ofhis dying body, and that mercy might begin in the triumph of his foul. But rather take it in the other fenfe, as we render it,To be wil- ling to doa thing; even that it wouldpleafe God, or even that God would be willing to deffroy me! As ifhe hadPaid, Ifindas it were a kinde ofunwillingnefs in God, tomake an end of me, bis bowels f em toyarn over me, hefeemsyet to be upon the difpute, whether to cut me quite off, or no ; now l even delire that God would lay afide that his tendernefs and compaffion, that he would determine and re- folve to deftray me, that he would acquiefce, andfully reft [atisfied in that refOlution. NTT Contudit,con_ The word hereufed to deflrey, notes to beat a thing to pow- trsvct,commi. der, or tobeat a thing to pieces, Pfal. 143. 3. He bath[mitten my lifedown to the ground, that is, he hath beaten me as it were todirt : So fobhere. I would have the Lord even beat me to dull or dirt. The word is ufed for contrition of fpirit,Ifa. 57.13. Idwell withhim that is of anhumble heart andofa contrite fpirit ; That is, with him that hath a fpirit beaten to powder, all to pieces, as any hard thing is with a hammer or peflle ; A hard heart, is aheart all in a lump, condenfate and clofed together ;; but an humble, a repenting heart, is a heart beaten fmall and ground to powder ; thus .7ob delires here, O that it woul dpeafe God to beat my life down to duff, and breakme all to(hatters ; that he would crufh me (as Eliphaz fpake in the 1 4th Chapter, verfe 19.)asaMoth. Obferve then in how fad a condition yob was, who not only makes, but renews fuch a requefl as this. Some upon a fudden pang with to dye, and hatlily call for death, yet are willing it Mould take its own time,and come leifurely : and as loon as death appears, they are cyyiug as hard for life. It is rare for any mans fecond thoughts to keep up, tofuck defres. job fpake once, and he fpeaksitover again ; O that I might dye,yea,he wooes detiru- ¿ion,and is an importunate fuiter for the grave.Howfäd if a mans outwardcondition, when be bathonly this complaint left , that he ' cannot dye ? when. a man bath no help, but in dieffru5lion, or heal- ingbut in a deeper wound ? Job in this appears like a man (that is to bepreífcd todeath) lyingunder a heavy weight yet the weight not heavy enough tocrufh him todeath,he cries out, more weight, more weight. It will be a kindnefs to truth out my breath
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