.Chap.9. AnExpofrtion tepon the Bookof] ® B. Yea. a 2 307 fear of God, then (peaks his own opinion. Thus he senfures but let job be well weighed, and his difcourfe will appear full of truth and holinefs. This it one thing, therefore Ifaid it. This hone thing.] As if he had laid, You have (poker, many things to me about the power, greatnefs, juflice and wifdome of Godin all which I agree with you,ye and I have no difference about thofe points, I have alwayes thought highly ofGod, and I defire to think humbly ofmy felf ; but here it ene thing, wherein I muff for ever difagree from you, here we rnufì part. Har our: rt So that this verle is as the limit one between Jobs opinion, near asirtionie and that of hisfriends.Iiere he fpeaksout theffecial tenet which calm. he holds in oppofition to. them. As if he had laid, I yield, and fübferibe to your judgement in all but this one,and in this one thing I mutt beyour adverfary,though I will not beyour enemy,/fey it, andfay itagain, He deftroyeth both the righteous,and the wicked. This one thing.] Tbis is uniform ë So Mt Broughton reads it' and in this thing I am uniform, or of the fame niind and judge- ment, I am not at all moved, from my-hold, or Ihaken by any thing ye have faid. ThereforeIfaid it.] That is, becaufe I am ofthis opinion and judgement, therefore I will not conceal, but bring it forth, and tell you plainly what my thoughts are. Themanner offpeech, I faid it, fignifies a vehement af7everation, a liberty and boldriefs of fpeech, or a confiant adhering and flicking to what bath' been afferted, I will abide by this potition as longas I live,''I cannot be beaten from it, not becaufe it is my opinion, but becaufe it is a truth. ,Before I come tothe affertion it felf, obferve from the preface, this it one thing, That truth is ever thefame, andwefoouldPie thefame in main- taining truth, When -a man fpeaks a thing,ofwhich he is very lure and refoly ed to hold, he faith, in our language, `7hat's'otce, that is,'I have faid it, and.I willnot unfay'it, or eat my words. As Pilate, when he was defired ro change the infcription which he had put upon the crofs of.Clarift,anfwered, What Ihave nvritten,Thave written, Kra ¡.
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