Chap.i6. AnExpofetion upon the Bookof J OB. Verf. t'S. 313 JOB, CHAP;i6. Verd'5,16, 17. Thave [owed' Sack,cloth upon mySkin., and defiled my Kern in the duff. My face is foul withweeping, and on my eye. lids is the fhadaw of death. Notfor any injuffice inmy hand af myprayer is pure; 1-1/1E former words (hewed in what manner Job was aftli- ¿ ed ;and becaufe the manner of his affliétions did almott exceed words, therefore he trained himfelfto the highett pinch ofholy Rhetorick, tomake his unkind Friends fenlible of it. And as there he told us what God had done to him, fo here he tells what he did, or how he behaved himfelfun- der the hand ofGod ; he tells us how he took thole tearings, and thole wounds ; how he received thole thowres of Ar, rows from the Almighties Bow. Eliphaz taxed Job in the fifteenth Chapter,with height and haughtinefs of fpirit in his low eftate, Verf. t 2 r 3. Why dotb thineheartcarry thee away? And what dotb thine eyes winkat, that thou turne /f thy fpirit againff God,and letteff Inch words go out of thy mouth ? And Verf. 25. he more then intimates that Job ftretched out his bandagainff God,andffrengthenedhimfelfagain/f the Almighty. Inbothpaffages he is feverely charged, not only with impa- tience under the handof God ( which is bad enough) but with oppofition againft the hand of God , which is far worfe. Job refutes there unfriendly cenfures, and profeffeth ano- ther kind both of fpirit and pradice in this Text.As if he had raid, I am notfo mad as thou take(( me to be, to run upon God, or toketch out myhandagainff bim while befmitetb me,I bave learnedbetter, then to (hoot the arrows ofblafpbemy againff God, whilff be fhoots the arrows ofcalamity againft me ; and if youdefire to knowwhat Ihave been doing , feting I deny that I have been doing what you fuggejf : This is the account which I giveofmyfeif., and of mybehaviour. S f Verfe
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