Chai. 7, An Expoftion upon the Beek of J OB. Vat r5. 630 Othersarc for comfort and confnlation. Many a foul bath rafted more of heaven in a nightdreame, than in many dayes attendance upon holy Ordinances. As the lulls ofwicked men have dreamer attending them, fo alto have the graces of theSaints. Job; dreams were for terrour and a$li&ions. (Jbferve fecondly, Satan: define of troubling poor four, is refilefn. It is reftlefs indeed, for he will not give him leave to reft, they thall not Veep in quiet, their very dreames (ball be difirae ions, and their nightly rcprefentations, a vexation to them. Note further, That (ifGod permit ) Satan can make dreamt; very terrible to w. He can thew himfelf its a dreame, and offer ugly fights, extreamly perplexing to the Spirit. He is able to calf himfe!f in to a thoufaud ill favour'd (bapes, into horrid and dreadful Chapes, he can cloathhimfelf with what habit he pleafes, if God give him a general Commitlion. And hence the Devil terrifies, not only by temptations to the mind, but by apparitions to the eye, and is Peen, at lean conceived to be teen (efpecially by fuch as labour un- der llrorrg difeafes . ) like a Lion, a Beare, a Dog, gaping, Brin- ing, flaming : whence we fay ofany terrifying fright, is looks like a devil. We depend upon God, as for fleep, fo for the comfortof fleep. Many lie down to fleepand their deep is their terrour . As that evil fpirit (in the Gofpcl ) went a out feeking reff, but found none: So he hinders fome, r and wonldrmore) frorm finding refit, when they leek it: Therefore bieis God for any refrefhing you haveby ficep : clefs God when your dreames are not your- shares, nor your beds your rack. Seethe cffèfitt what deep im- preffions, dreadful dreatrres made in job: fpirit, he was fo affrigh,. redwith them, that he profefhes with his next breath. Verfe 15. Myfoul choofetb ftrangling, anddeath rather ibex life j lcatlo it , Iwouldnot live alwayer. So that myfoul cboofethftrang.ing. ] He renewshis former often repeated motion, but with a greater ardency ; He not only prefers death before his troubled condition, but a violent death, and ( in theopinion offomejthe worft ofa violent deaths, ftrangling,which though it benot the molt painful ofviolent deaths, yet it is looked upon as the mole ignominious of violent deaths. Some refer theft words to the terrour which job had in his dreames and vifions, as if they were foviolent upon"him, that they almol diftraded him, andmade himmad, that they even- put,,. Mm ism 3, him,
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