'Chap.-10. AnExpofrtion 4J!Ofrthe Book of J O B. Vert, f4f$4460000.0i944000,41440 00$40$0440$#$ JOB, Chap. i o. Verf. a. lily foul is weary of my 1ife,i will leave my complaint up- onmy fedf, Iwill(peak in the .bitternefs of my foul. OB having in the former Chapter jufified God in af- fixing him, and maintained his own integrity, not- withitanding thofe afitions, now returneth'to that work, about which he had been too bufie be- A ifil e e fore; yet that, wherein it feems he onlyfound. (as e'ner :put the cafe flood with him) Come little cafe and refrething, The ran!, jrlax,v breathing out ofhis afflit`fed fpirit infad complaining!. He refumes habenH de fad ore dol uetan his former lamentation,and renews afrefh what he had been more q then large enough in, at the third , P fixtla and feventh Chapters of tur'Qifuaa e. auuterente°to_ thisbook. Here, as there, he thews how ill it was withhim, and mirares uberrí- what caufe he had tobe in heavinefs,under the prefl'ureof fo ma- maorari®rìe. y evils Mcrc. s: And here, more then there, he remonftrates that he conceived Argumentù u- himfelfmore hardly dealt with, then flood not only with the titara natura t3ei (ry ante= goodnefs of God in his nature, but with that goodnefs which he arreprb rpjrtr had formerly aC}ed both towards others and himfelf: This en- beneficíe,qut_ cöuraged him about the chofe of the Chapter (-vent. 20. and 22.) bw mate h.fe to petition again, that hemight have a little refreshing before he qu`` imm+frr lay down in hisgrave : and that God would (after there forms) Desrrmagno- C ) pere repugnare return 1ìï r formof thole fair dayes he had enjoyed, before he re- videantur, turned to theearth, and fhould be Ceen no more. Merl His complaint is very rhetorical and high, yet with an allay or Vehement qui. iíiixttìreof modesty. Indeed his fpiiit brake out, and pailìon got denitPJto head,at the 18. and t9. verfes, wherehe expoftulates with God, rate;, eßque. in the language of the third Chapter, Wherefore haft thou brought rimonia, jed me forth out of the womb, &c? But abating that excels of his modefla, fi tongue and fpirit,his complaints areknit up with folid arguments, unum thud op_ and his aeries put the point refolutely, yet humbly, home to r°rumexeepe Godhimtelf : thathe would be P leafed to [hew the reafon ofhis ra'ver Med ts,ra. prefersdealings ,,and why he varied fo muchfrom what he had on in former times, gg"2 The
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