. +. hap.f. An Expefition upon the. Book of B. Verf. o. 415 de rwhich, he found his ownllrength altogether infufficient. And t1is fuflinendr fo the CtyJ in the Text, What is CmyJ ftrength, teems to be op impar fum,hde pofed to forr,e other firength; as if job had Paid, Eliphaz you mriaboxrarre advifed (in the former Chapter verfe 8. ) to feek untó God, fußenraturq,n and to commit my cattle unto him to feekbelp at his hands. Whywe it viribur, doyou think! have not done that all this while ? doyou beleive feddivinagra. that I have/toed out thefe affaults in my own firength ? hat t1a, fde,dile my ftrengtb, that I Jbould bear ? That Ifhould bear this burden ianergfci.wa, fo long as I haveborn it ? Surely I have been held up by the power of+pet.yinerl God andprayer all this. while ::.Godhath put bis everlafting arms; solder me, otherwife Ihadfallen before this day, had I not prayed in aydfrom heaven, I hadnot lived thus long upon the earth ; for what - -is my firengtb .compared to there burdens, which are upon an e? This islogood fence ; for as the ApoÍtle (peaks (Gal. 2.1o. The life wbicg now live I live by thefaith ofthe Son of God, So Job feems to fay,the life which I have lived ever fence tilde affliEtions have encompaffed me,I have lived by the power of God, and the firengthoffàith in him. What ú myftrength that I fhouldbear ? We,have thú treafure (faith the Apóftle 2 Cor. 4, 7.) in earthen veffels, that-the excellency of the power, may befrom God, and not from us_; as he (peaks there, refpe I ing the burden of the Mini firy : So wemay in rc'fpea ()fatly burthenof trouble, or weight Mom; , præ of affil Etion. We have thefea hiflions laid upon our earthen veifels,flolatus Vet (and one would wonder that a earthen veffel fhould ndt cráckfignihcat anxrci and íhatter topeices u, der them) but it is, that the excellency fPopetu eli of the power might be from God, and not from us; when we are gAatnexpeflare weak, then we areftrong, ;trongin God, andin the power of bis ¿7 .e re fzrre might. God loves to thew the u;orld what hisfirength can do in a pretrafirenerai ful creature: weak creature, as tirellas what hii'grace andmercy can do for afin_ rei ` pef1ara, Chemnít. This (I fay) is a good fcrìfe, but the word rather lignifes toSbt,, oa hope ; and yet thefe twoarenot at any great odds : for hope is theboni furi firength, the bearing-firength of the foul: What is my Jlrength_promnL,lufep, that IAmidhope ,? That I fhould wait and tarry, that I fhould "0"coorumps. eirpeCt or flay for loch and fuch changes, as thou haft promifed ? rie"r`a ctorx PJal.t30 5 .we have thefe words put together,I waitforthe Lord,exbruttu my ful cloth wait ; and in his word do Ihope. The ful which is' in a,.hatiingconclition,is alfa in a mating condition; watingand ho- ping ever attend the farne thing.Noman will wait at all for that of ppz which.
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