Chap. 14, An 8xpofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. 16. 64r will have a delire to them ; but faith makes Pure prophecyes, be- caufe 'tis bottomed upon the fure word of God, Jobs faith: pro- phefied more then once. He fall be myfalvation , (Chap. a 3.) Iknow that my Redeemer liveth, andd faallfee him, &c. (chap. i 9.) Faith hath a quick eye , and fees good in the end from the be- ginning. Faith fees the movingsof that holy concupifcible ap- petite in God towards poor (inners , when it feels nothing but the movings of his irafcible appetite. While yob perceived wrath or fomewhat in the likeneffe of wrath mixtwith the dealings of God towards him , he promifed himfelf (and that not coldlybut confidently) not only fomewhat in the likeneffe of the favour of God towards ,him , but his reali favour ; Thou wilt have adefire to the workpf thy hand. But had not the Lord a delire ro Job before ? Was the fpring ofhis affections (hut up till that day (liould come ? or was his love to him yet to begin ? No , the love ofGod and his delires had flowed to him fromeverlafting ; as whom he loveth he loveth to the end, fo whom he loves he loved without beginning: but his love and his delires had been a little while hidden and (as force rivers) had run under ground. Job taw nothing in his latter ra= dayes but the actinns of his anger, and was fenilble only of fe- thetica ex com verity in his proceedings , as the complaint of the next words parationefive-: teacheth us. ritatis judiL ciernen Dei hoc Verfe 16. For thou numbrefl myfleps, deft not thou watch over my hoc & f queme pine ? verfu, cum in- firnsitate em- In this and the verfe following Job makes a pathetical) corn- vim reruns parifon , between the prefent feeming rigour of Gods dealing ereatarun: with him , and that fweetneffe which he hoped to finde ere long veil" 20, 2 or at the laft : Thou wilt have ade/ire to the work;ofthy hand, but re heinous tit- now thou numbreft myfieps. que adlinens; Two things are here to be opened. Jun. Firf} , What he means by his fiep. '1V greJPes Secondly , What he means byGods numbring his fleps. Job sneor ' speaks both by a figure. éTi171áéorç0 z Byflops we are tounderfland his actions, all that he did yea, ;v. f$udi e (n1 all that he thought, his inward motions as well as his outwardmitererepolo- motions. So the Septuagint tranflates, than nuntbreft niy medi- niépruaaia- iations, or, the workings of my heart. As the whole courfe of niæ ,tuns cv >- a man is called his way , _fo the feverall anions of that courfe, po,is, N n n n are
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