Chap.a7. An Expofition upon the BookofJ OB. Vertag. 245 are ready to fwallowme up. He gives me no cafeat my corn plaining cryes,nor doth he give me any; at my patient fìlence. The next Verle Leers molt lùtable to this Expofìtion where yob applies himfelf to God, (hewing what he did to him, both while he fpake, and while he held his peace ; he wearied him (tì11, and left him-in a wearied condition. Ve.7. But now be bath made me weary, thou haft made de- folateall my company. We may fee (in this Context) that the frit óf Job was much troubled,by the troublednefs ofhis Speech. At this fe- venth Verle he (peaks in the third perfon, He bath mademe we ary:and before he gets to the end of it, he (peaks fecond Perron, Thou haft made defotate : In the eighth Verfc, Thou haftfilled me withwrinkles:In theNinth VeriHe teareth me in hit wrath : The Tenth Verle is Plural, They have gaped upon me : Strange kind of Grammar, fometimes in the third per. fon, fometimes in the fecond , fometimes in the Singular, fometimes in the Plural number;His mind was uneven,or unfet- led,aatdfowas bis difcourfe.We Inuit not play. the Criticks with the words ofmen in pain,nor fubmit their fentences to a Desk of Grammarians: Broken language, and incongruities of Spech, do well enough become broken Hearts , and wounded Spirits : God will not call his Schollers in the School of al}lis ûion to the Ferula for ,fuch faults or falle Latine falling from their mouthes, either in- prayer or conferences, while their hearts are true; and the language of,their fp.irits pure. But now hehash made me weary. ( But now ) Now, is not here a Particle - of time only, nit 1K' or a Specification of the Seaton, noting that then God either began, or ttillcontinued to make him weary ; but it carries alto a lîrong affeveration; or the certainty of the thing ;.. as 'A in-that Promiffory Exhortation (Hag. 2.4.) Yet now beirong O.zerubbabel, faith, the Lord, andbe ftrong, 0 Jofhua. Though . you fee things yet below expet$ation, though thisbe a day of (mall things, yet take.heart and courage your felves to carry on this reforming work. Yet now beftrong, even now,when fo.many things, might weaken both your Hearts and. Hands, and.
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