290 Cahp.i 6. An Expofition npou the Book, of J O B. ObCerve in general. Goddoth not only afi i thofe whom he loves , but afiEf them foarly andfevererely. He afflic*s fome,not only to the empairing and abating,but to the undoing andruining of their outward comforts, and worldly enjoyment : Nothing can be laid to defcipher an aíliie ¿; cd hate beyond what this world will bear. A. d that God loth afflict his chofen ones to the utmoft rack of this phrafe,, will appear alto from all that follows to the end of the r 4 ver. the opening ofwhich will be a continual proof and illuttratì on of this great and often experimented truth,upon and among the precious Sons of Sion: This I (hall hint all along.befides thole obfervations which arile out of them : He path broken me afunder, and what follows, in the fame verfe ; He bath alto taken me by the neck,andfhaken the topiece!. Is not this to deal feverely ? A loving Father takes his fon about the neck and kiffes him ; what a rough falute did the Lord give this Son of his, when he took him py the neck,and thook-him to pieces:? Such a carriage feet& to be after the manner ofmen, much lefs after the manner ofFathers ; yet this was the manner of God to job, who was afro his friend and Father. He bath taken me by my neck. This neck,is as the tower and flrength of the body, and when a man is taken by then ck, he is affaulted in his chiefefi eirengt la, and taken at the greateli advantage. There is a threefold Metaphor, or allufion of there words, which being confidered diliinc ly,' willlet out their meaning yet more fully. Full, They bear an all ufon to Wrefilers, who take one a- nother by the Neck or Collar he that is the firongeft, not only takes his Antagonifi by the neck, but (hakes hire as if he would fluke him to pieces., God wrefeled- with the Paa triarchJacob literallyand cofporallq though' the gtieatefi 1a4 bour and firefs ofJacobs wrefiliñg was fpirituat and inter., nal) 4nd when hefain that he prevailedhot (Jacob prevailed with God for tb much (irength, that now God could not( ac- cording Verfi2
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