Chap. 7. iInExpofttien upon theBookofJ OB. Ve. rG r 3. 631 . Man it apt to judge that God layer more upon him then there it need. Am I a Whale or afea? as ifJob had faid,Lord thou needeff not deal thus flridlyand feverely with me, or bellow fo much care to watch me.I would have come in at a call thou tneedefl not have boundedme with thefe afflictions, and put fuch a hooke in my nofe,a nod,or beck would have fetchedme in ; Wife men fuite their preparations totheir occafion ; we carry not out a piece of Ordinance to (hoot at a fly, which we cankill with a phillip ; fo faithJob, Lord I need not all this, a little admonition, a little chafining, or a check fhould have reduced me, loch are mans thoughts. But the molt wife God, never layes more upon man, than he hath need of: When God itreightens us with fuch affli- dions,he feeth there is fomewhat ofthe fea inus,he mull bound us, fomewhat of the whale in us, he mutt watch and bring us under. If we fee God bellow more rods and blows upon us, we muff concludewe could not be without them ; tome apprehend, that fuch is jobs meaning in the fixteenth verfe, What ie man that thanfhonldeff magnifie him ? as ifbe had laid; it is too great an ho- nour for man to be afflicted by thy hand. .1fme fee a Ding make great provttion for War, togoe out againfl an enemy, we fay he magnifies the enemy, It isan argument they have great Jirengthi againfit whomweprepare great firemgth. SoJob, Lord thou magni- heft me, thou makelt me to be lookt at, as fume powerful creature, - a fea, a whale, againfl whom thou adefl to much of thypower, job having, as he refolved, begun to complaint ofhis forrows; now amplifies them. Verfe r 3. When I fay my bedfhall comfort me, any couch fhalleat my complaint. 14. Then thoufcarefi me, &c. He amplifies his forrows upon this general ground, becaufe they were fuch, as he could not find any cafe or abatement of, no not at any time, nonot by any means ; As if he had laid, my grief and my pain is fu remedilcfs, that, neither artificial nor natural means give me anyseafe; thofe things which have the greatenprobability of refrcfhing, yield me none. He inflances in thole ordinarywayes, which give lick and diflempered bodies tome abatement or intermiffion of their pains lying down upon their bed or couch ; when I fay, my -bed (hall comfort me, my couch.fhallcafemy complainto As if he had laid, while I was
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