Chap. 7. An Expo/iron upon the Book of J OB. Verf. i6. 6 defircd a Commifion to aftü6t him, he words it thus, Touch - hi. flefh, audhis boneand he will_curfe thee to thy face : Doubtlefs Satan hadgone as deep, as his cotnmitlion 3 he had liberty to Magi' oprasrm" torich his fleth and his bone, and he did it : Ile vexed bit very. Z° rry mein bones ( as we fay ) my bones are even rotted and confumed the 'bra p utrido t5 lores and the putrifafiionis funk down into my marrow, i had:ulceribusdifia rather have death than my bones; that is then a body thus confum. entia Mere. ed and the putrifiedeven to the very bones. Oummenria:r . ntim fQ Yet further Tome of the Hebrew give it thus ; Death ad a than mybones ] beçaufe job had nothing left him, but bones, he penerrava could not fay my flab, for his Beth was confumed : As we fay, JobovitAatiug .Such aman is nothing but skin and bones, a very skelleton ; I, pan' ofafu, am nothing but bones, and I had ratherdie, -hen live fuch an A- Perejlet natomie. _ Vcrfe 16. 1 loath it, I would not live alrnay; let me alone, for my' dayesare vanity. He clofeth up his complaint, as he had often done before, with the tedium that was upon him,and thenaufeoufnefs ofhis life I- loath it, I am nothing but skin and bone, nothing but fores and boyles, my life is a burthen to me,; I would teat live al} way Iloath it The word frgnifies the greatcft averfationpoffible.God expref- Min fethhis grcateft difplicencyofthat, wherein the Jews were com- manded to take their grcatet} pieafure, under this notion Amos -. 6. 1 defpife your feels; you think you kep folcmn fcafts, wherein 'I delight as much as your felves,but I loath them , my, ftomack turnes at every:dill. The ftomackclofes with wholfome meat, and turns to it ; that which isunwholefome, the ttomack. turnsagainft, the fight of it cures loathing. Their fealts were of. Godsown appointment, andhe ufed (in a fence ) to ,feat} with them, but their hypocrifie fpoild the banquet. Job fpeaks of his own life, what the Lord fpeaks oftheir feafls.: I loath it even as . that meat which is molt burdenfòme to the iìomack = So Pfal. 53;. 5. thou./mgput them to fhame, becaufe God loathed them, or be caufeGod defpifet b them : 1bey who are loatbfne to God cannot Jong, be.bottonrabls. or acceptable.among men. 1.. li¡
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