524 Chap. 13. An Expafttionup the 14ok4f Jo$ Verf, 40% J o B Chap. 13, Verf. 26, 27, 28. For thou writeft sitter things againfi me, and makrt me to pofefs the iniquities of my youth. Thou putteft my feet alfo in the flocks, andTooke ft narrowly unto all my pathes; thou fettefl a print upon the heels of my feet. And he as a rotten thing confumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. A Tthe 24t4 verfe, Yo6was fully inquiuitive, whereforehideff Li thou thyface ? &c. here he makes as fad a narrative.David (Pfa1.66.i 6.) invites all that fear God, Come, andI will declare 744 hebath donefor rnjy. foul. yob feems to invite attention from all, while he declares what.God had done again(} his foul, Thou wrtte/l bitter things againfi me, &c. Thewhole relation is carried on in a continued metaphor, alluding to a judiciary proceeding; as if himfelf were aguilty malefactor, and God the fupreme Judge; Firft, Aggravating his fault, andpronouncing fentence upon him, verfe 26. Thom nrite§ sitter things, &c. Secondly, Executing the fentence, verfe 27. Thsgp.=shell my feet alto in the flocks. In theclofe of all, yob declares the effea which that fen- tence pronounced andexecuted wrought upon him, (verf. 28.) Heas a rotten thing confumeth, as agarment that i r moth-eaten. Thouwritefl bitter things againfi me. God kath a double book, and both. a figure. He bath a: book ofhis r'olved decrees, and albook of his ailedprovidences. This Iater (t e book of his providences) is but a tranfcript or a copy of the former. Thofe huge Original volumes of love and bleífìngs which God hath laid up in-his heart for his own people, thofe alto of wrath and judgement which he bath laid up there a ;ainll his enemies froth all eternity, thefe volumes (I fay) of love or wrath, are ir. writing out every day,hy the hand and pen of providence in the orderingof all thofe affairs which concern bothperlons and natións. yob is to be underftood of this later book, the book of providence, in which God writ bitter things againfi him, though thofe bitter things compared and laid toge- ther,
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