2+0 Chap:16. An Exmo(tion'uponthe Bookof JOB. VerC6' Fielt, Aggravating them by their unmoveablenefs, or re- medilefnefs : His forrows were flubborn, and fuch as would not yield tó any kind of remedy. Verf..6. Though l fpeak my grief is not affwaged, and though Iforbear, what am I eafed l In the former Verfe job fpe'aks in a high brain of afl'urance, that if his friends were afl;lided , The moving ofbis lips fhould afwage their grief : But it items, his own experience had taught him, that the moving of his lips could not afTwage his own grief ; Though 1 (peak( faithhe here) my grief is not af; f'waged. Hence Obferve. Amanmay do that forothers which be cannot do for himfelf He may comfort others in their furrows , when he cannot comfort himfelf, he may refolve others in their doubts,when he cannot refolve himfelf, he may anfwer to cafes which their confciences put him, when he cannot anfwer his own ; yea, 'cis potlible for a man to fpeak fuch words to another , as may turn him from his fin, and Cave his foul , and yet himfelf con- tinue in fin , and tote his foul for ever. Naturalics have a rule concerning the fenfes , That, when a fenfible objeel it brought too near, or laidupon the fenfe, it not only hinders, but takes away the prefent fenfation. This holds a proportion in rational ac ings : the nearer any one is to us in relation , the harder it is to fix counfel upon him ; and because we are nearctl to our felves, therefore it is the hardefl of all to counfel our felves. Our Saviour Chritl prevents what he taw tome ready . to ob;e6t againc him ( Luke 4. 23. Tee willfurely fay unto me this Proverb Phyfitian heal thy felf. The Proverb in its Original is (I conceive) to be underfleod perfonally ; but as Chriti fuggefls it there , it is to be underflood Nationally or Provincially, Heal thy [elf, is, heal thy own Countrey ; ex- ercife thy power of, working miracles there, as well as thou haft done it in other places ; that this is the meaning of it,a'p- pears, plainly by the next words , Wbatfoever we have beard done in Canaan , do airs, in thine own Country : For Chriti as yet had wrought no mighty works of healing there ( Mark, 6, 5,) But why was Christ fo flow in manfefling himfelf to his
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