622 Chap. 7. An uxpofition upon the Bookof J OB. vetf, t lips moved not,, until my heart moved, my complaint is my medi- tation. Hence likewife that phrafe of powring out prayer, PM. 142. 2, I powred out my complaint before hips ; he that powres cut, mull have fomewhat yea much within,whrre there is a con - ftant fircam, there alto is a fountain, I ponredout my complaint, or my complaining prayer; it is the fame word here,' have lythcted the bitter waters of fòrrows into my own heart,aud now I powre them forth in complainings. 4snarc=mnon I mill complain in the bitternefr of my foul. What the bitter- fan nir, fe, P. nefs of the foul is;hath been expounded already in the third Chap- (tiara jucunás> ter, thtrefore I (hall not flay upon it: It notes only the height or simari.rem ma extremity ofafflidion. Bitter isoppofed to unpleafant, as well as fecit/eneEus, to fwect : In the bittcrnefs ofmy foul: The af}iitionappear'd moll á'PQfp°"°r=m upon his body,but it aflhac d him moll in his foul,He (peaks little Y''aut° of the pain ofhis body,in comparifon of the troubleupon his he infìlts principally upon that, I. will fpeak in the angu fh ofmy fpirit, I will complain in the bitternefr ofmy foul , r:ot in the paints of my Beall, or fufferings of my body ; and yet that form of(peaking, excludes not his knfe and fenf,blenefs of bodily, pains, for a man may well fay, his foul is in bitternefs by reafon of the paints ofhis body. Being in this condition we fee what his remedy was, he falls a crying and a complaining beforeGod,telling how it was with him. jobs complaints have been fpoken of in former paf(ages of the Book, and why he complaints bath been (hewed. An afflieled foul finds fome eafe, in complaining of affiillion; to complaine out of impatience, diffrufl and hard thoughts of God is very fin- ful ; in that fencewe mull be filent, as David, Ffal, s 9. 9. when the hand ofGod was heavy upon him, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, becaufe thou did); it ; in reference to the dealing of God with hím, Davidhad not a word t4 fay Our Lord Chrtft (thegreat patterne offuffcring )was as a-(beep before the fheaerr, dumb, and openednot his mouth, no impatient fpeech came from him. Thongh the grief ofJob was very great, and fo it might fomewhat ( as hrth formerly been cleared ) excufe the great- nefs of his complaint, yet, in this Job (hewed himfllf a man IDseemueyuon- likefir/jai tofuchpafftons as weare. Man thinks to get cure by Le pa lomi nitvires=iibir? complaining, but ufually-he gets a wound: What poor fhifts are Doaderoliei, we poor creatures often put to ? How often do we entangle or Marc, felvss becaufe we are ftraitned? Though Jobs heart kept clofe to
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