Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Bookof J OB. .Vert 30. 365 Lafily, Taking the words (as in the original) abfolutely, with- out any fuppoiition, I am wicked, Why then labour I in vein ? As iflae had laid, I am wicked, not only in the opinionofmen, but I ac- knowledge myfelf to be cricked indeed, confidered with the moll holy In vanaraP°be° God ; and then his fence is, Lord, if thou art pleafed to go this rarest, fman way to work with me, to let the rigour of thy juftice awork, to Dee )uflificare find out my fin, and to judge me according towhat thou finder} t o sae hoc,4ó then in vain do I Peek to comfort my Pelf, for in thy fight no flcfb fellaprafupp can be juttified, I (as well as others) art wicked: In which ns acknowledgment he feems to meet with, and confute that fuppofition of Bildad,Chap. 8. 6. If thou wert pure , Pure, faith yob, alas, I can never be pure before God. When the Lord examines my purity, he will find it impurity. You tell me, if I were pure, the Lord would awaken for me, I (hall never be pure in your fènfe, I am as pure as ever I fhall be, that is, I am impure, and fhall be at my heft : which lente falleth in directly with the two vertes following, Though Iwafh my Pelf with Snow- water, andmake my hands never fo clean, yet thou wilt plunge me in the ditch, andraine own cloathes Jhall abhor me. Taking up that in- terpretation, I fhall conned it with thefe two verts, and open them in order. Verge 30. If Iwafhmyfigwith Snow mater, and make myhands never Jo clean ; Wafhing is an ad proper to the cleanfing of the body, orr of bodily things ; and in Scripture- ¡tory we find that Travellers had hilea mho water provided for them at their journeys end,to refrefh and cool crane purkfca.. their bodies. Thefewere civil wafflings. But betides there we tionet,quarDe- find many ceremonial wafflings of the body, or bodily things, ust fort or a inflE. which implyed the removing and taking away of fin, and fo tuit,ut gamic were a token of internal purification. Therefore the Apoftle talibutceremo. (Heb. g. ro.) defcribing the jewifh worfhip, and (hewing the niir affuerum feveral parts of it, faith, Itflood ( we fupply that word, but it facilius addu.; fuits the Text well; for the fubflantials, thepillars upon which wet odeutcuat their woxfhip fiood,were íhadows,confifting)in meats and drinks, verumPized> and divers wafhing.:. In Allufion to which the Lord promifes (Ezek. 36. 25.) Iwill fprinkle you with clean water: And the, Apoftle Peter fpeaksof the fprinkling of the bloodof Cbrift ; r Pet. 1,2.) And Paul ofthe laver of regeneration, Tit. 3. 5. The Saints who came out of f,teat tribulation, are laid to bave wafised their A a a 3 robes,
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