Chap. 6. An Expofttion upon rho Book of ,J O B. Ver le. i i s 477 Eliphaz : For we find Job himfelf in the thirteenth Chapter,verf. For d Lobo de 13. refolving thus : though be kill meyet will I truJl (or hope) in cinrr,ut con - him ;, he would truft and hope in God though he dyed, therefore fitti irtportu- he did. hope while he lived. And it is the property of that grace nitátera,rx (and where it is in firength, it thews as much) to hope again(f yr pf tiinj_ hope : Rom. q.. IS. Who againff hope beleived in hope ; when there fef.0 returde. was no firength in Abraham, no poflibility in nature., yet againk ret,non quod hope, he beleived in hope : Soat this time there was filch a de divina to. grace in Yob, he had a hope, by which he could hope againti tentio dudes hope ; but when he looked into his own ftock of firength , What ret. is my firength, that 1 fhooeldhope ? I know the ffrength of God is a rock fare enough for my hope to anchor in:.4brabam Paid, in diced, What is myffrength, that I Amidhope to have a child? for helooked upon himfelf as a dead man, but faith he, there is pow- er in God ; he knew his own weaknefs, but he confidered it not, . waxingjirong infaith, and givingglory to God. So here, while Job faith, What H my ffrength that 1Jhoreld hope ? my Ilrength is dri- ed up and withered, and fo is myhope in my own firength : The . firength of God is vigorous and green, and in hito my hope alf° isgreen and vigorous : Though all the earth about us be like a dry heath and barren wildernefs,yet our hope buds and bloffoms like a plant, while it is rooted by the fprings of heavenly pro miles. And rohat is mine end, that 1fhouldprolong my life; The letter of the Hebrew is, That IJhould prolong, or lengthen out myTaal, that my foul should inhabit longer in the Taber - nacle of my body : The word prolong, is differently joyned to life, or dayes, Deut. 5. a 6. Honour thy Father and thy 11,Iotlier its the Lord thy God path commanded thee, that thy dayes may be prolonged, (pe. Etiek. 12. 22. Son of man, what is that Proverb thatyou havein the land of Ifrael, faying, The dayes are prolong- ed, and every-vifion faileth ? To prolong dayes, and prolong life, are the fame. Yet here the word (Nephefh ) fouls which we . tranflate, life, may be taken for, defire, which is a vehement a& of the foul, The foul expreff.s it fell, fo much in delìres, that the, fame word may exprefs both. And fo we may render jobs, fenfe thus, What is my end that I ( hould lengthen out, or extend my de f res any further after the things of this world :. or that I. Jhould' `i?1tZK VJ1.
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