Chap. 9. Expoliti;m 'upon ibeBook of J OB. Verf. i4. 24.9 j B, 9. 'Verf. r4., 15. Hon, mach left fhait anfiner hint,anCi chufe ont nty rords to reafonwith hint ? who though tr were righteous, yet troiddl not anfivcr: wouldntaItefu,1'plication.to ntyr Ituisgen J OB having in the former paffages óf thisChipter lifted up the J glory and majetty of God,in his power and jallice, and thewed the utter infufficiency of creatures to implead his juilice,or to ref cue thetrifelyes out of the hand of his power he now draws his fpeech near,er home,und calling his thoughts from thofe remoter journies up to theheavens, and anong the liars, over the moun- tains andhills,'down to the depths of the f..a, and foundationsof the earth, about all whichhe had difcourfed Ifay, calling his thoughts from thefe remoter travels, hecomes now clofer to the platter, and from all Thofe premifes deduces a cone' ufion in the Words of the Text, tovindicate himfeif from that charge,which, his friends laid upon him,as if he were a contender with the pow- er, or an accufer ofthe wifdome and juliice of God : From the folly and blafphemy of both which imputations, he di fafperfech himfelfin thefe two verles, by an argument taken from the great- er to the lefs,and we may form it up thus :' He who fnfirong, wifè and juft,. that all the powers in heaven andearthare not able to oppofeorflay him, furely I I alone, or fingle I, apoor weak,ereature, am not able to op- pofe aril-ayhim. But ( as I have cleared by thole former inflances) God is fo Pang, wife andinn, that'all thepowers ofheaven, C1',17b"-fli-f- ibo Sea,the mountain. ,and tkpillars of the earth,the Stin,L'er,,:mcersea- AloonandStars, together with the greaten and mightielf of nare,r(rii,ei the childrenofmen, are not able to refill him. cedalt,&qux. ThereforeIpoor weakcreature,lyino- here in thisfad con- cling; robore dition, am not able f:nur have I any Zlefin)to do it. e-ge'u,nt"r pree; Only the conclufion'of this fyllogifme is exp,refi, in the four- o minus ego ? teenth and fifteenth verles, theprernifes Arccouili.d in the forc-, going. context. . , Here take notice in general, that job falls in the conchiflon K
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