Chap.i6. An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Ver,3. 221" of truthand fobernefs in them ; yet ( as to Job's particular cafe ) they wanted Tome grains of truth and reafon , they were too high and fwelling , conlìdering -how low and hum- blehe was ; they were too full of patlïan , being ipoken to a man fo full of fufferings. And therefore though teat cenfure of his friends wards, at vain (who indeed were wife tnd.grave men) was too' cenforious and {harp , yet it mutt be granted, gp that their words alto were too (harp, even filch as vexedhis Pink o fpirit,and wore out his patience, upon which account heex- SS7 pracidtt pees and begs an end . of them. Shall vain words have an able:d:r. end ? That is, will you make an end of vain fpeaking I pray kuiaf. ell do, I with you would : Cut off the ihred of this difcourfe, ranuemporie you have fpun it out and continued it, but too long already. quam rei pats The Hebrew word which we tranflate an end,.tprings from clfie & ter*. a root which fignifies to cut off , becaufe every .end,tiwhether of time , or things, is the cutting off of that tame or thing, the end of which it is. While Job asks the QQuef1ion,Shalivain words havean end ? He (peaks the vehemencie of his own de fire and expeflation , to fee an end of them. I (hail not flay: here to give any obfervations upon there. words ,' but refer the. Reader to the Text before alleadged in the eighth and fif- teenth Chapters, where this expreifion is more fully opened : -- Only Note. Fin i,Vain words are very.burdenfoine to a ferious ear much more to a fadheart. Secondly, It is good to end that quickly ; we fhould . not have. begun. Profitable words may be too long continued , but impro. fìtable words cannot be too loon ended : It is bell not to fpeak.vainly, and it is next bet} to ceale, or give over fuck. kinde of fpeaking quickly. There is a time to filent from good words , as well as time to fpeak them ; but there is no time to fpeak evil words , all times, in reference to them,. are times of filence. An Apofiopofis, or fudden'flopoffpeech, is the moll futable figure of Rhetorick which they can ule,. who fpeak unfutably. As the end of what we fay or doe well is belt, fo the endingof what we fay or do amils is belt.. Perfeverance in every good word and work is Angeli cal , and the hiohetl perfedìon of duty, but perfeverance in an..
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