Chap. 6. An Expofitionupon theBookofj OB. Verf. 27. 5¢5 and glofs the text of his complaints. We fhould hear a man in afflitión, as it every word were drenched and fteeped in the for rowes of his heart and take every fentence, as coming bloudy from his wounded fpirit. Lathy, obferve, how Job defcribes his own efiate ; he was, as a min detperate, (not utterly defperate,for in another place he pro- feffes in higheff confidence, that though God kill him, yet he will troll in him, ) yet detperate he was in regard ofoutward help, or temporal fuccour. A godly man in affíielion may fimetitne think; hit cafe defile- rate and remedilefr. Wicked men refolve in the Praline, 7 here is no helpforme in God ; and a good man under a cloud of temptation may fay, Surely, there it no helpfor me in my God that is,I fee not which way 1 (hall be helped,' have no affurance, no evidence that God will helpme : Not that he doubts the pow- er of God to help him : But the providence ofGod feemes to (peak that he will not,Ifhall one dayperifh by the handof Saul, faith ho- ly David. Hunan looked upon himfeif, as a man that had Kt ffrength: free among the dead, Pfal. 88. 5. As if he had got a dif- charge from the fervice of the world, and was enfranchizd a Ci- tizen of the grave, where all are free. As(to note that only in pot- tage ) it is fàid of Azariah,being fmitten with leprofie, and fo put from the exercife ofthe government,whichwas a civil death;that he dwelt in a feveral houfe,or in a houfeoffreedome, 2 Kin.15S Verfe 27. Tea.you overwhelm the fatberlefa,andyou dig.a pit foryour f, iend. After he had convinced themof their uncharitablenels in ac- counting his words light and windy, he (hews them how they dealt with him,whatkind of words theirs were towards him: their words were as fwords, their words were blowes,every expreffrorr of their, tohis ear was anoppreflion upon his fpirit; Teoverwhelm theJaiherlefi. He lets forth theirças he conceived )cruelty againft him by two things,very odious both ; Firm(, the undoing of a fatherlefs child. Secondly, the diggingofa pit ( not for an enemy, but ) 'for a friend. First, Te overwhelm thefatherlefs. The Original is full of Emphalis, word for ward, it may be Aaaa trart-
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