Chap,'6.. AnExpofitionupon theBook, of J O B. Verf.B, 261: erite : 'and thus theyargued all along , this was their confiant plea ; Job muff needs be ( according to this opinion ) a man ofan evil life, becaufe his life was filled with evils : 7bou haft filled me with wrinkles, which is a witnefr againfi me, &c. Hence Obferve. - Firft, Great affietions leave their marks behinde them. Little afidions leave no wrinkles , no leanness behinde them, we recover out ofthem, and nothing appeals of them as it is in finning, fome fins leaveno mark , fuch are our dayly infirmities, and common failings but there are other fins, which leave a mark behind them,you cannot get them offlud- denly, it may be you cannot claw off the marks of Come fins as long as you live: though the fin be fully pardoned, yet the mark, the wrinkle, the leannefs of it may remain to your dy- ing day. David being defiled with adulteryand murder,prays, Caufe the bones which thou haft broken to rejoyce : Thofe two were fuch fins as broke his very bones ; they were to his Soul, as the breaking of a bone is to the body : If a man break a bone, though it be well let, yet it leaves a mark. David carri- ed the skar of thole fins to his Grave : ThoughGod had forgi- ven thofe fins, and did not remember them, to impute them to David, yet when God had occafion to fpeakof David to his higheft commendatiion, he could not forbear the mention of thofe f i ns (, .Kings t 5 5.) Daviddid that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turnednot afide from any thing that he commanded him all the days of bis life, fave only in the matter of Vriah. The wrinkle or Rain of that fin (tuck upon Davidr re- putation, when theguilt of it was quite removed , and wath- ed offfrom his perfon. 'Tis fo with afiiiftions , fome afHi6ii- ons leave no mark , others go deep : Though all afllié# ions are light comparatively to the weight of glory, as the Apoftle fpeaks ( Cor. 4. 17. ) For ourr light of ullion which is but for a moment, works for as a far more exceeding , and eternal weight of. glory : Yet afliiStions being compared among themfelves, fore are light , and fome are heavy : As a Cart that is heavy laden , cuts deep into the earth , and tells you where it hath gone ; fo doth the wheel of .a heavy affliction drawn over.bo- dy,foul, or ettate, Secondly,.
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