484 Chap. 13. "In Expofitionuyon the Bookof Jos, ÿerf: 2m, upon it, andcannot bequiet,it is ready to break and give up the gholi untill we have brokenor opened our minds to God. From the fecond fence Obferve, That a man can eafier die, then fuffer blots to lieupon his in tegrity. Our reputation fhould be nearer to us than our lives, there- fore faith Job, ifI keep filence Ipallgive up theghoff, I cannot bear this. He was not fo fenfible of anyof his fufferings as of this. And as it is aneafe, fo it is a duty to repair our own credit, and to take off what we find unjulily charged upon us ; efpeci- ally when it refleas upon Religion, as it did in Jobs cafe. His friends fufpeEed himof hypocrilie, Is this thyfear,thy confidence, and the uprsghenefsof thy waies z Thefe jealoulìes furred up the fpirit of Job to call for bis adverfaries, and provoke them to ap - pear and-plead'it out with him,I have from other paffages toucht this point before, andMall thereforeadd no more here. o s Chap. 13 Verf. 20, 2I, z2,23: Onely do not two things unto men then will 1 not hide myfelf from thee. withdraw thitie hand farfromme, and let not thydreadmake me afraid. ?hencall thou, andI will anfuer; or let mefpeak,andanfwer thou me. Howmany are mine iniquities andfins ? make me to knowmy tranfgreflion andmyfin.. N the three former verfes,Job prefac'd tohis friends, and be- fpa-ke their attention ; being fo well affured of his caufe, that he fat down under the comfort of this conclufion, 11¿noxq that I fball be jut,fed. Here, in the three firíi verfes of this context Jobbefpeaks God himfelf, and feems to indent with him upon forme conditions before he would fpeakfurther or proceed in this difpute. Werfe
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