il 296 Chap. 9. AnExpofition upon the Book,ofJ O B. Vere 20 cd ? Who will not acquit himfelf ? The witnefs ut our own hearts is much( i Joh. 3.2 i .)but not enough,If our own hearts condemn us not, thenhave we confidence towardsGod.Bur the reafon of this con- Homini: inno fidence is not in the bare, tingle witnefs ofour own hearts, but in ccntiaduobut the co-wit ne s of God with our hearts. Conicience is therefore tejlibusconga- a thoufand witneffes, becaufe God who is more then a thoufand re 'Jebel t Deo confciences, joyns with confcicnce both in accufing and in acquit- :, vi tin The Pharifees faid unto Chrilt I h,au beam t record o thy el Ergo ft tibi vi. g f ,Yf fs derir habere . thy record is not true (Joh. 8. i3, 16.) They fpake upon "a legal]. bonumtnnftien- ground or maxime; Chrift anfwereth, Though Ibear record of my the teflimeut felf, yet my record is true. Chrilt doth not deny the rule,but thews um, 6008 qad that he was above it, and therefore adds, It isfaidinyour Law, dem, feddivi. numadhutde that the teflimony of two men is true, 1 am not alone, for the Father is tua innotentia with me : As ifhe hadPaid, I alone bear not witnefs ofmy felf, exptdondum I have another, even the Father that fent me, he bearetb ivitnefr of of }° me, therefore mine is not a fingle teflimony ; in that cafe indeed I were to be reproved, and my witnefs were infufficient, My on mouth wouldcondemn me, if there were no mouth to tettifie for me, but only mine ; If I were but as an ordinary man, I might be kept to the ordinary rule. Godonly is afuficient witnefs to him- relf. Mine own mouth (hall condemn me. But ofwhat ? SureIy of fol- ly (2 Cor. 12. r I.)1 became a fool in glorying, faith Paulto his. .Corinthians , but I amnot a fool of my own making,ye have cotrt- pelledme, for I ought to have been commendedofyou. That is, ye ought tohave given a tetlimony ofme ; ifye hadbeen juft tome, I had been eondemn'd in juttifying my felf. Then it is a duty to witnefs for our Elves, when others neglec`,t that duty. The Original word which we translate condemn,is direfdly op- SP0111 polite to that which we tranflate juftifie ; and Tome render it by a Peoria feet new-coyn'd word in Latine, which we cannot put litterally in- impiifttare, ut pisAka. to. EngliflA but by coyning a word for it, thus; if 1 juftiftc re. Mere. myfel f , my own mouth would ungodlifte me , or declare me to beun- to torwa Hi- godly. phil non eff- Here two Queftions arife, the one is, why may not job juftifie lionem dono- limfelt x The Lord had j.uftified him, the Lord laid that he wasa ,rat, feddedw erfed man (that's thenext ex rif ion If I a I am er ea it ads rotianetq, p ( P f f y Y f ,i' prove me perverfe.) The Lord had Luid ofyob, Chap. t. That be was perfetl and upright, one that fearedGodand efehewed evill; why may not Job fay as muchof himfclf,as the Lord had done ? Solomon
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