Chap. io. AnExpoftion upon the Book of J Q B. Verf. 8. 487 3. The quickning of his parts thus joyned and Pet together at the 12. verfe, Thou haJt grantedme life. 4. The prefervationof his life, in the fame verle, Tbon haft gi- ven me life, and (not only fo, but) favour, and thy vifitation Both pre(erve myfpirit.. 5. Lattiy, We havejobs ffrength of afurance, or his aft rtion concerning all this at the 13. verfc, Thefe things thou haft bid in thine heart, I knowthat this k with thee; as if he had faid, Lord, Thou knoweff all is truth which I bavefpoken. There are three opinions concerning theconnedion or tie of tilde words with Chafe that went before. Firft,Some conceive that fob perfifteth in the fame matter hand- led, in the words immediately foregoing, exalting the knowledge of God concerning man upon this ground, becáufe God made man. Thou keoweft that I am not wicked. Now did job know that ? He mutt needsknow what man is, who made man, Thine hands have made me and fafbionedme together round about ; foral much as I am thy work, a piece of thy framing, Purely, thou knoweff what thou haft framed : thou who hadit knowledg enough to make me, haft a perfect knowledge of what thou haft made me. We may joyn it alto with the later claufe, Nonecan deliver out of thine band; Why ? Thine bands have made me and fafhionedme. Is it poffible for the work to deliver it feltout of the hand ofhim whowrought it ? Is that which is formed too ttrong . for him that farmed ir, when as the fame hand which gave it form, gave itffrength ? We find this argument as to the former part (Pfal. 94. 9.) where from the work of God in our natural constitution, the holy pen-man proves the fullnefs of his know- ledge concerning us in every condition Vnderftand ye brutiflr (hefpeaks to men, whoafcdmore like beatts then men) He that planted the ear, Shall be not hear ? He that formed the eye, Shall he notfee ? As ifhe had faid,He that made the ear, is all hearing and hewho formed the eye, is all eye, all fight. The argument holds thong from Gods power in forming man, to his power of knowingman, and to his power of difpofing man. That's the in$tene0bujua ftrff wayof dependance. reicaufain;tun Secondly, job may be conceived, as Tendril% a`n account of eaimmenot it- thofe things about which he had taken the boldnefs to interro- hutmefece,inr, gate the Lord, at the third verte. Here he anfwers his own que- Dautfuedeßrf *ion; as ifhe had faid,now I feewell enoughwhy thoumayff de- ere, Cá)et, fpi;fe ,
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