212 Chap: i5: Att:Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. VerG2. techrfed,knows them. 'Tis no difparagement to any truth, that it bathbeen often heard , and is commonly known. The more common a truth is, the more weighty it may be. Yet, Which gives us a fecond Obfervation. Ordinary truths will not ferve inextraordinary cafes, and that which every man knows and hears , will not refolve us in thofe points whtck. fewmen know or hear : As job's perfon was a Phenix in the world, his ageafforded not.his fecond, There is none like him in the earth, faith God himfelf. to Satan ( Chap. a.8.) So fob's condition was a Phoenix, it had no fecond; there was no man tried like him in the whole earth ; and therefore his cafe could not be meafured by the common Standard or ruleof Providence.iiebadneedhear that which was never heard before,wbo bears andfeels that which was never born nor felt be- fore. There are fome temptations on afllíóions, as the Apofile (peaks (r. Cor.1o. 13. ) Which are common to man.: Cotrm n truths may comfort and fa:istîe the confciences of fuch. But there are temptations (fuch were jobs) which are not com mon to man ; we can hardly finde their paralel, or a prefìdent of them in the Records of any Age : Common truths will not comfort, nor fatisfie the confciencesof fuch. Every dGf= penfation bath a Dof,}rine futable to it ; difpenfations which are feldom teen call up Doarines which are feldom heard. Secondly , Job complains.that he hears only.thofe things which he had oftenheard. Hence Obferve., lt.troubles a.man in trouble,, to be often preffedwith the fame thing: Aman at cafe is pained with unneee t ryrepetitions; muchmore a man in pain : and though they who like and love the things which theyhave heard, doboth ,love and like to hear them.often -; yet (in Come cafes ) they-may hear them toooften. Some indeed -fpeak very: prephanely , what : Job fpake juflly, who when theywould not put off fubmiffion to, and attendance upon holy Dotrine, fay , we know before we go, what he will: fay.: We know fuch things as the Preacher ufually fpeaks;what he can tell us,that we have not heard be- fore ?.That's the languageof the Proplaane.; Weknow amuch asbe can teach us. Though it be granted, that a man knows as- much as the P.teasher eau tell hitn, yet heought tohear it .again.. Though
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