Chap. i6. An Expoltion upon the BoolZof J Q B. VerC (o . 743 welcome to them, nor yet he who is aullere, and referved, clofe,and Iiri& in his way, can give them any content,who, or what can content them ? When neither pyping nor mourning, when neither dauncing nor forrowing takes with us, what can ? When we would defcribe a perron whole troubblefome nefs of fpirit Teems unanfwerable, we fay of him, He is quiet neither full nor fatting : that is, he is never quiet, or nothing can make him quiet. Abraham faith to his Nephew.Lot (Gen, a 3. 8 g. ) Let there be no fl rife Ipray thee, between me and thee, and between thyHerd-men andmyHerd men,fo;. we are brethren. &c. If thou wilt take the left hand, then will i go to the right, or if thou depart to the, right hand, then will Igo to the left.Now as it is an argument of the fweeteft fpirit , and faireft dilpofition when a man is ready to take either hand , rather thati break the peace, fo it argues the fowreft fpirit , and molt untraflta- ble difpofition, when a man will neither go to the right hand, nor to the left, when he will neither move forward nor backward ; when he will neither give nor take, neither buy, nor fell, there is no dealing with fuch a man; for he waves all the wayes of dealing. Thus allo we conclude a people incorrigible , who conti- nue in their fins, whether God finite or heal , whether he de., liver them from, or deliver them up into the hand of judge- ments , becaufe thefe are the utmoft bounds, or the extreams ofall thofe providential difpenfations which God ufeth at any time to turn a people from their fin. Again, We fay they are unperfwadeable whom neither fair means , nor foul , can reduce ; fpeak them fair, they are naught , fpeak them foul, they are naught 1h1í ; pro- mife them good, they remain evil, threaten themwith evil , they will not be good. You may carry it out in all experi. ments, wherefoever you find an evil frame of mind or bo- dy, or ofaffairs, which mends not, or doth not alter for the better, by the application of the other contrary, when the for. mer hath been applyed without fuccefs, you may write under it ( as to humane helps) This is a defeprate cafe , a diftemper incurable. Yet further, job in thele words reflects upon his friends; as if he had laid, Some men,by complaining andopening their foars to rhofe who vifit them in their agliïiion,, their Friends relieving s,_ l i 2 ehm
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