484 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Book ofJ pB. Vert -x 3. I no help in me neither ? my outward man is de(}royed, my houfe of clayis almoff battered down, tottering, falling it is, but have I nothing within to help at a dead lift ? have I no grace, no hope, no teuumonyofa good Confcience, no witnefs in my felt? Do you think me clean difrobed and flript, and emptied of all wif- dome and comfort ?Rath the Devil thinkyou robbedme ofmy grace? have the SabBans plunderedandf poiledme of my. underffanding ? Is not my help within me, notwithllanding all the troubles that are upon me?thus the interpretation is fair and clear that,when all his outward comforts weregone, when the llrengthofhis lieth could hold no longer ; yet then he had help within him, and his spirit could bear, though his flelh could not. Grace canhold out beyond nature; and when bodily llrength can dono tnore,wifdome comes in with her Auxilliaries. Is not my help in me, and it wifdont departedfrom me ? The word (wifdome) in the Hebrew, is of yarious fignificati- 1 tvii1 ons, as was touched Chap. 5. 12. Here one renders it, The Law is Signitcat le- not departed fromme. As ifhis meaning were ; I never forfook genyfapienti- am.fubfiflenti. the Law of God. Another thus, Was my duty drivenfromme ? As am.Etlemre. ifhis meaning were, I ever kept dole to the ruleof my place and pulfa eß à me? calling. A third s Is myfubfIleneedrivenfromme ? So a fourth ; Pagn,Nun- Is my ability offubfiffing gonefrom me? As if he had laid, cannot I live, becau(c I have not the world to live upon ? to which lente im.u! um nit hone ? vatab. rhofe words ofChrifl are appliable,Luke 12. r 5Thelife ofman con - &mfubfflen- files not in the abundance of the thing., which bepoffefeth; all which lia impulfo eß interpretations meet to make up a compleat Apologíe of Job's pi- à mdfacu tar ety, conflancy, patience and t;ourifhing refolutions, in his dying, fubfrflendime withering condition. The Sabeans drove away his catrel, but deffiruit?Iy_ they could not drive away his underftanding ; they offered vio- gyr, lente to his fubftance, but his reafon and his graces were un- toucht. Hence obferve fir$, That when all outward helpr depart from a godly man, he bath fomewbat abiding inhim, to help andffay up bas heart. As when the outward glory and firength ofthe Church is utterly.decayed, Ta (the Prophet tells us Ifa. 6. 13.) in it (hall be a Tenth as a Teyle tree, andas an Oakte, whole fiebjiance is in them, when they calf their leaves, So the Holy feed (hall be the (frengtb thereof Thus alfo,when the outward glory and ilrength ofany true mem- ber of the Church is utterly decayed, even then, he (hall be as an Oak;
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