358 Chap. t 3. An Expo f tion npon4heBook,o fJOB. Veri 4. hypocrite, which is a practical lye , he juftly charged them with errour, which is a doctrinal lye. Ifany man faith that himfelf is . fo holy , that there is no fin in him , he lyes (faith the Apoftle John, i Epift; chap. a.) and the truth is not in him : and if any man fay ofanother, becaufe be is outwardly unhappy , that he lives in fin, and bath no goodnefs in him, this man lyes too, and bathnot thatparticular truth in him, which would teach him not to judge ofmew perfons by events. Thefe things laid toge- ther might ítirup the pafíionof Job to that high andunfriendly language againft his friends, Te areforgers of lyes, and Teare all Phyfitians ofnovalue, Medici n btli, There are two forts ofPhyfitians , the one in a proper die e. pryfus vel other in a metaphorical fenfe. APhyfitian properly taken, is a omntno vos ef3is Student in nature, and learned in the temper , conftitution and to ,Z rnediei parts of thebody his bufinefs lyes either in the preventing or ,Lt Stamm cot, vanitatem, curing bodily a of difeafes which are enemies to the lifeand fub- , fatrtatem,ldo- verters ofthe ftrength of man. yobs friends were not Phyfiti- him. ans in this fenfe, or ifthey were , yet he oppofeth them not in their Philofophy, but Divinity : And their errand to him , was not to heal the difeafe in his flefh but to remove the forrows and distempers óThis fpirit. His friends were his Phyfitians in a figure. In the fame fenfe that the foul is laid to be fick , and the mind deceafed , the foul and the mind have their Phyfitian. The foul- Phyfitiandoth not give counfel for the preparing of Medicines , but his very counfels are the Medicines , his word (that being the word or mind of God) is both the purge and cordial : Such PhyfitiansJobs friends would have been , but he .complains of them, that, either their Medicines were fpiritlefs and hadno effeft at all, or elfe that they wrought too violently and hence it is that thoughhe call them by an-honourable name, Phyfitians, yet he abates it by an undervaluing Epithete , rhy- Jüians Væ paftori meo nihili, lun. Ofno valtóe. The word isufed, though not in the fame conftruëtion(Zach. 1 I.17.) Wo to the Idol Shepherd:Some render there to the fhep- herd ofan Idol, or of a vain thing : others, Wo to the fhepherd of.
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