67a Chap. I q.. An Ex'poftión -upon the Book of J O B. Verf.zz. offurrow when the flefh is pained and the foul mourns , what can be added to that pain and mourning? If the fpirit be whole it will fuflain the infirmities of the body, if the body be whole, it will fomewhat allay the infirmities of the minds , but when the fle(h is in pain, and the foul mourns, natural mifery is compleat c for then all man is in mifery. Flefh and fpirit, body and foul, are all ofman. And in all this TI; doth not fpeak his fpeculation but his exp6ience, He felt what he Paid, andendured himfelf what he delivered unto others. Ímight here draw out obfervations about the troubles ofmans life, and the quicknefhe ofhis furrows in the approaches ofdeath. But thefe points have occurred before, and therefore I !hall not re- new any difcourfe upon them in this place. Thus I have (through the continued help of Chrifi) finned the commentary of this fourteenth ehapter,and ofTbs whole "anf- wer to the charge of Zophar, the liftof his three friends, and fo of the whole firfl charge ofhis three friends , and ofhis anfwers to all three. It feems they were all unfatisfied in his anfwers, as much as they were about his perfon : and therefore they begin in order as theybegan. eliphaz. leads the battei a fecond time ; and that more fiercely then before, he fais upon 7ob, not fomuch with ftronger arguments as with harder words , rather reproving then arguing withhim , and reproving him with much heat , if not with tome bitterneffeof fpirit ; As will appear (if the hand of God (hall leade us yet further) in publi(hing the explication of that his.fecond .congreffe. F 1 N I S.
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