29 Chap.' 6. AnExpofition upon the,Bookof J ®B, VerC t fo the Lord fets up his faints and fervants on purpofe, that he may ¡hoot the arrows of affli6ion at them ; therefore let us keep our ground and not be moved. We honour God , yea it is our honour alto, when we are immovable in a riveobe, dience as the Aponte exhorts, z Cor. 15. 58. Wherefore my Brethren be fieadfaJt'and unmovable, atway abounding in the workofthe Lord, for as muchas ye know that your labour is not invain in theLord.But as it is our honour , and Gods honour too, when we are unmovable in doing the will of God; fo it is a greater honour,both tohim andus, whenwe are fo in fuf- fering his will, or in paffive obedience ; when we 'land to it, and move no more in way ofcowardife and impatience then a Poft when it is ¡hot at. This is the glory of a Chrifian, and it is his duty ; this is the glory of God,and it is his due; though it be put here as an aggravation of the greatnefs of 7obs affliction, that he was fet as a 'landing mark, yet it is a heightning ofour.praife, contentedly to be fo. God will make wicked men his ftanding mark to all eteruie ty, againft whom he will (hoot the arrows, the poyfoned . arrows of his indignation, which fhall drink up their fpirits, and yet their fpirits shall not be confumed. God makes his precious fervants and faithful people, his 'landing mark for a time, they feel the arrowsofafflic` ion,and are deeply wound.. eel ; as Job further profecutes his fad condition, continuing the Allegory,in thenext Verfe. . Vert, 13. His Archerscompafs me round about, he cleaveth 1i7agni _jut my reins in fonder. dnon p tea. God hath a Bow, he hath his Arrows , and his Archers, Geetenim all ready at a call. The decree of God is his Quiver, his Dn Sig arrows are his purpofes , and the Infiruments which execute viagnitudinem them are his Archers ; whether rational or irrational, whe-: rinniñuat, ther men, or things, any thing which God ufeth to afflict five in difereta man by, is his Archer: His archers have compaffed me about. hic tamen in The word is ( Rabbi) His Archers , fromRab, great ; fo fome pifcreta ell or. read it, Hisgreat Ones bath compaffedme about: The word ripienda, a Rab, doth riot only fignifie greatnefs in bulk, or continued .snultitudine jagitarii quantity, but in number or difcreet quantity. Hence Ar- dar, chers are called, Rabbi, great ones, not from their magnitude, 'lsbita. but from btheir multitude, becaufe Archers go in company ; two
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