Chap. a5. AnExpofitionupon theBookof JOB. Verf.35 20i TheOriginal word is rendred three ways, Finn, We fay Vanity. Secondly, Another faith Lye:. A third faith Iniquity. The word will bear any of, or all the 3 of theTran(lations. 118 row They bring forthvanity, a lye, iniquity. They who çonceive mendocium mifehief, may bring forth any thing but what is göod. Thofe Peverfìrags three words may ferve the fame thing ; every vanity is a lye, and any lye is vanity, and iniquity is both lye and vanity. The perlons of whomEliphaz difcoúrfeth are faid to bring forth . vanity, on there three grounds. .Firft,Becaufe they fometimes bring forth no fruit at all;they are conceiving mifchief, but they can make nothing ofit,their conceptions end inabortions , they devife and plot but all is hatching of winde : The Church is foexprelfed, though ina different cafe( Ira. 26. r7, t8.) Like as a woman with Childe near the time of ber delivery is in pain, andcries outin ber pangs ; fe have we been in thyfight, OLord ; We have been with Childe, we have been inpain .: The Church had conceptions for good , "the hoped that" the Lord would have done Come great things for her.; yet after her conception, and travel, fee what the brings forth , -We have been inpain and broughtforth winde ; that is,nothing at all, it.proved a meer tympany ,; for fo he explains it , .We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the.Inhabitants of the World fallen ; that is, we have not obtained that deliverance that wehoped for in theearth , neither have our enemies ( wheare called by the Prophet , The inhabitants of the World) been fubdued under our power ; they havenotfallen. Now as the Church and peopleof God fometimes are difappointed in their expec`ati ons they conceive, yet bring forth winde , not that Man- childe of mercy which was expelled : So, much more do wicked men, after all their pleating conceptions, and pangs of travel, they bring forth vanity , and their Veffel is marr'd upon the wheel. Secondly , Theyare faid to bring forth vanity , or a vain Parturiut thing ; becaufe what they bring forth , isnot proportionable montes,1&c to their expe6ation. Their Mountain proves -aMolehill, or (as it was faid of old ) a Moufé, Thirdly , Becaufe the birth is not wady always be- Dd. low
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