Chap.r6. AnExpofition upon the Book of JpB: Verf.Y$. 347 ira darknefs, andhis name Jhall be ch°vered with darknefs : that is, He shall be forgotten, he than be as if he had not been: And thus it is applyed to the pardon of fin .Pfal.32.1. Sin is vailed with the worthinefs and obedience of Chrift, as with a Garment, and is to God as a thing forgotten, or out of mind, whence once it is forgiven : In both thefe fenfes Job feems to befpeak the earth, O Earth, cover not my blood : that is, If Sdngaír rcrr thou haft anyofmy blood, do not ditfemble it, bringit forth, ten #ur qi ands be not as if thou kneweft ofno fuch matter. Assimulation faanur pit. makes that to be, which is not, fo diflimulation makes that not mulaiur, nee to be, which is. titndr'tlarl e : Again, Cover not -my blood ; that is , Forget it not, if poicit. thou haft fuch a record upon thy Fyle, let it be continued and remembred, that the Generations to come may judge how I have been dealt with by this prefent age, or how I have dealt in it. O Earth, cover not my (blood.) But what is his (blood) which hewould not have covered? His blood maybe taken two wayes. First, Paflively, for his fufferings and grievous aftliffions, which were even to blood The Apoffle tells the Hebrews, Ye have not refilled to blood,Jtriving againflfin, Heb.I2 q.. There isa threefold ftrife againft fin. Firfi, Againft fin already acing and moving in our felves. Secondly, There is a lirivingagainft that fin which others move us to a¿, whether bypromifes, or by threatnings. Thirdly, There is a flriving againft that fin which othersac. The Apofile (as I conceive) intends one of, or both the latter forts of ftriving againft fin, which iindeed a ftriving againft finners ; and in this frife he faith, re krave not refilled unto blood; yea, have (I grant) refilled, to the loffe of your goods, yea, and to the Joffe of your credit and reputation in theWorld Chap. 10. 33, 34 but know, ye are not come to theheat of the Battel, till your bodies bleed Ye have loft Ne tees: fan. noblood yet,Jiriving againft fin. Job refitted, or rather fub- Vann' meum. mitted to blood; he had Taft blood, in thegreat fight of a 11 ' b1 liamgriá ¿ion whichhe indured ; he was wounded all over. Now, înnotçnr pore® íay fome, he cryes, Oearth, cover nos my blood; that is, Theft Marc. Yy2 my
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