Chap. 9. An Expofsio ñ uponthe Boókof J Vert: 28. 35, Son, fo he deals with his fervants. God the Father dealt with Jefus Chrift as with a guilty perfon(I('a. 53.9, 12.) He was num- bred among tran f gre f fours, andmade hisgrave with the wicked. The Lord reckoned him as a firmer, while he was fatisfying his juffice for fin, and making an atonement for fanners. Job is no where called a type of Chrift, but he was like him, and their parallel might be drawn in many things,efpecially in this,that both were numbred with the wicked, and in that bothwere ufed, as if they had been guilty. The difpenfationsof God to his own beloved Son once did, and to his faithfull fervants often do look like thole to thegreateff tranfgreffours. His Son was handled,fo that he might redeem inners ; his fervantsare fo handled, fometi,nes to prevent, often to purge them from tint; fometimes to try their graces,alwayes tomake them fitter vefhelsfor glory. Though we cannot make anyearnings toward glory,by the weightieft ailiif i- ons, yet thefe light a li5lions,' which are butfor a moment, wo:°kfor usafar more exceeding andeternal) weight ofglory. Y3e1larm. I. s.. I than pals from this reference of the word, Thou, when I dä juß{fcsp. have breiffy vindicated the textfrom the corruptions of fome Pa- pifis, whourge it to prove the uncertainty of our juftification. Job (fay they) doubted whetherGod would declarehim juli or no. I anlwer, Justified perlons may havedoubts, yet that Both not argue the uncertaintyof juftiácation. Juftificatiou is a lure aa. in it Pelf, and we maybe lure ofit, though fome are unfilled a- bout it. This Scripturegives no shelter, much lefs fupport, to that dodrine ofdoubting. The Vulgar reading, groffly vatying from the original, is all the fhadow it bath in this place. For as that Tranflatour mitiakes the former chute which he renders, I am afraidof all my works:So this latter,whicli he renders,Kn wing good th-at thooeyo'ilt not pardon orfp, re him that offendeth. He that leeks f'i' Parf°r'-s tobe juftiiéd by his works, (hall not want fears about leis ju[titi- ` "" ` °11" l11á,. cation:and ifthis be a truth, which their tranflation feem tó holal forth, that God will not pardon him that offendeth, the bets and holieft men in the worldhave reafon, not only to fear whe- ther they are justified, but to refolve they can never be jutlifìed in his fight. Ifevery man that lìnneth mull doubt ofthe pardon of fin, all men muff doubt. In that common acception of the wordofend,it isfalfe,that God will not pardon himthat offends .,- whom fhould he pardon but fuch as offend ? They who are above fin, are above pardon. Job never thought God would not pardon
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