Chap. 14. An Expoftion upon the Book of J O B. Verf. 18. 65 t unto change, when thus affaulted : how is at then that Ifubffl under fo many forrows , and yet bear filch burdens ofaffliction, who ant neither mountain, nor rock, nor Hone , nor tree ? how is itthat I am not waftedàndreiovedby this tempefl of thine anger, and quite wafhedaway with theft inundations of thy dafpleafure ? Surely ifI hadbeen a mountain Imight have been pulleddown before this time, had Ibeen a rock, theftftroaks anddiggings might have undermin'd me , bad l been a fione theft continual droppings might have worn me out, andbowgreen and flourtfhing foever I had been, the fe fonds might longfence, not only have difcolonredbut drowned all my beau- ty. Thus he argues from the greater to the leß'e , if filch robu- lluous creatures fall and fail by thefe accidents , whencewas it that he who was but weakneffe had held out fo long ? how wa; it that he (almoft a dead man at fira) did yet live in the mida of fo many deaths: Hence Secondly Others conceive , that j'ob under thefe fimilitudes renews his old fuit todie; As ifhe had laid, "There is nothing fo " firm, nothing fo wrongly fetled, but mua yeeld at tall unto cor- "ruption , and change its Gate : therefore let my change come. "Let me b.jremoved, for rocks mua remove, let me be confum- "ed, for mountains mua confume: Stones wear and trees are " wa(hed away, let me be worn andwait out of the world, let "me paffe away and die. Thirdly, That lob dothhere move the Lord to pity him , and hallen his releafe , fufpc Ling that at the lall he might break out into force impatiency , or Mover uncomely paffions : As if he had laid , Lord, mountains cannot fiand always and rocks will fail at tall; howmuchfooner may mypatience ? My flrength is not theftrength of f ones, (as he fpake, chap.6. 12.) Fourthly , All thefe fimilitudes are conceived to aim at the Hasfimilitudi- fame point, which yob had,been upon á little before, namely, to nes eodent fpe- htew that man dying !hall return no more to his former flare flare patoquo ' pracedentes de as was there opened. Death givethus filch awound as than never ara¡sè ntaride be healed here, it is an irreparable loflè ofour worldly com- betantibus, &c. forts : This he fhadows our'by mountains , rocks , cones, trees ad oftenden- and fruits of the earth which are changed and confuted , as if darn fc, mortena they had never been : Thus in general , I than now open the vbinis reP4. diainct parts of these comparifons. O000 z Verfe
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