Chap. 9. AnExpofitianupon the Book of JOB. Verf. 32, 3S3 Lerd commends. We (hould judge of men as we believe God judges. OT ( to come nearer ) .let noman think himfelf is ap- provedof God, becaufe he is approved by himfelf. Many flatter themfelves. in their own eyes, till their iniquity isfound tobe hateful; (Pfal.36z.)Chrifl intimates this,fpèaking to the Pharifees, (Luk; 16 15.) Te are they that juJtifreyour [elves, ye have high thoughts of your own worth, andglory in your own excellencies, and ye think God hath high thoughts of you, that he glories in you too but let me tell you, That which is highly efteemed among({ men, is an abomination in the fight of God. We are the men, Paid the Phari- fees, ours are excellent gifts , thus they admired and doted upon themfelves : but the Lord found themout,and what they highly efleemed he abominated. Some write and fubfcribe their own letters teflimonial, and can get no hand to them but their own. Not he who commends himfelf is approved , but he whom the Lord commends.; filch (hall find, that their own good word would'do them no good, He it not a man as they are. He, faith lob, is not a man as Iam, that I fhould anfwer him. And we fhouldcome together in judgment. it hathbeen (hewed what judgment is,at the 19th.verfe ofthis Chapter,and at the third verfe of the eighth Chapter, therefore IF thall not now Ray upon it, only as to thematter inhand ; Judg- ment may be taken three wayes. Firfl, For pleading, which is but preparatory to judgment, the r Difeeptarîw opening and arguingof the cafe or faE,l under trial. mutuus Secondly, For the decifion and determinationof the cafe ac- T`)/xe' re- cording to law, or the award ofjudgment. tronum. Thirdly, For the infif ing and executingof the fentenceac- rto urge deli cording to the judgment awarded. Ex ditto re. Here job chiefly intends the frrft,He is not a man as I am, that 11gationá 6°° fhouldanfiver bim, andwefhould come together injudgment, that is, debiti. Mere.. that I (hould plead,argue and debatemy matters with himbefore any other Judge. God and mancannot come together to be judg. cd; for all mankind mutt receive their judgment from God. Ornearer the Hebrew (which lutes thefeirmer claufe better) He Vt ltentintw as not a manasI am, that we fhould come alike to judgment ; No, parrter àn udi4- we fhould be very unlike, very unequally matched -in judgment. `rum. Man and man, who.are upon even terms in their nature, may yet be.. 1
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