456 Chap.,' 3. AnExpofation upon the Book of JOB. Vert rtS, compelled (as Jobwas) to boar of our wales, 'yet wecannot make falvationof them, we muff give that wholly to God. It is an admirable frameofheart, when we are highelt in fpeaking for ourselves or in maintainingour waies before God and man, yet then togo quite out of our waies andout of our (elves. To expeft all from freegrace, when we have been molt free at works, mofi aftive indoing, or patient in fuffering for God, is the right Gof- pel temper. Fourthly, Obferve this from it. That an upright heart in the worft times looks at, andbath aneye upon the heft th, ngs. Though he flay me, he (hall be myfalvation : With the fame breath he tels us of God flaying him, and of God his falvation; be faw life in death, light in darknefs, deliverance in def1ru- klion, repairs in ruine, falvation in flaying, fuch are the work- insofa gracious heart, fuch the profpec`fsof faith in thegloom- ieft day, in the darkeft night. Faith only fees fuck fights as thefe refie1ed from the glafs of precious promifes. Laiily, Sob expreffeth his fpecial intereft in, or relation to God, He alto¡hall be myfalvation. Hence Ooferve, That a Believer looks upon God himfelf as hisfalvation, MyGod, my falvation. God bath (as it were) made him - felf over to Believers : Job doth not fay, God will give or be- (tow falvation upon me ; but he faith, He ¡hall be my falvation. It is God himfelf who is the falvation and the portionofhis peo- ple. They wouldnot much carefor falvation ifGodwere not their falvation. It more pleafeth theSaints that they enjoy God, then that they enjoy falvation. Falfe and carnal fpirits will exprefs a great deal ofdelire after falvation; O they like falvation, hea- ven and glory well, but they never exprefs any longing delire after God and Jefus Chrift. They love falvation, but they care not for a Saviour. Now, that which faith pitcheth moll upon,is God himfelf ; he (hall be my falvation, let me have h:m and there's falvation enough; He is my life, he is my comfort,he ismy riches, he is my honour, and he is my all. Thus Davids heart acted immediately uponGod, PM. 18. 5, 2. Ilovethee,O Lord, my ffrengtb, the Lord es my rock,, andmyfortrefs, and my delive- rer, my buckler and the horn of my falvation, andmy high tower. It pleafed holy David more, that God was his firength, then that
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