Pap. 9. An Expofttián upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. r8. 285 can tell how often he dothorfuffera that which he alwayes doth or fuffers.I am fo far from feeing a period of my troubles,that I have not fo much as any paule or itop.He fpeaks in that high (train of rhetorick,called.hjperbole,for in firiCfnefs ofthe letter, not to fuf- *For:Mpro. fér a man to take his breath, is to kill and quite deftroy him:,but verbiumerar, when he faith,God will notfuffer me to breathe,it noteth the con- adfgnifcan.- tinuationofhis forrows,"not the expiration of his dayes. damfacereoli Again not to fuffer aman to take his breath, before he bath quid indrfinen done fuch a thin is a * Proverb, for feed doing. Like that ufed rer a bf; $> > fpeedy g ullavel miwi. "by tome of the Ancients,to do a thing-without onefpit,that is,in as enmoruis out little time as a manmay fpit. When theb Italians would exprefs intermigrone. ailing without delay, they fay, Go about this bufinefs, anddo not Ünafaluia. fetch a breath tillyou are here again,go andcome with a breath.That úavEsni,i.e,nnó direffion given by Elifba to his fervant Gehezi, when he Pent him,fpirituoliquid to reftore the Sbunammites fon(2 Kings4.29.)rake myhaftin thine frcere eß deli_ hand,(andgo thy way,if thou meet any man,falutehimnot,and if any 8enterfacere. falute thee, anfwer him not again, &c. And that ofChri(t to his rheoph, in Difci les when he gave Commifíion to preach the Go- p g p Clivum iflcm fpel (Luk; i o. 4.) Salute no man by the way, are of the fame in- ono fipout, tendment. Chrift did not mean that his Difciples fhould be unci- farieeiruexupe. vil (nor Élifba his) he did not forbid them to ufe common cour- rare Ben.' tifies tomen, when they went to call men to fpeciall grace. No, btu° preffo,er nonfjetare,q'd. but his meaning is; go fpeedily about the work, do not. Bland unohalitu e- complementing and talking with, How doyou, and how do you.? greeumet re- by the way : do not entertain the time,or truffle it away with Ce- greffurlQerfce remoniesyhaving an imployment offuch infinite concernment put into your hands. So he teems to allude to and reprove that ill cuitome z f idle fervants, who when they are Pent forth upon bufi- nefs will Yet Rand and talk with everyone they meet. Now, as not tofuller aman to talk a word while he is upon a fervice, im- ports fuddain difpatch : So when Job faith,Hewill notfuf fer me to take mybreath in thefe my fufferings, his [meaning is, mine are no lazy, dull fufferings, I am forced tobe aliveat them, I cannot handbreathing and cooling my felf, I have no leifure,novacation at all from this paiíive fexvice ; He will not fiber me to take my breath. But (or, for) be, f tlethmewith bitternefs,or with biterneffes... . I have opened this word before,c.3.`10. As inScripture,fweetriefs rmplyes allcomfort fo-bitternefs all trouble and,forrow, When 0od
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