Chap.x7. An Expof{tion upon the Book of J OB. vera, 4r$ nifieth tomock with derifion. The word ( Chap. 16. 19: ) C=3;%1170; notes them fuch as mocked, with wit and jetting. The word here ufed fignifies tomock by deceiving or deluding, as if his Friends hand carried matters with him more like Sophifters, then Comforters : So the word is applyed, Gen. 3 r. 7: 'Jacob tels Leahand Rachel, y uknow that with all my Power , 1 have fervedyour Father Labai, and your Father loath deceived me andchangedmy wages ten times; that is,He thought by chang- ing my wages to deceive me, aad get all the ftronger Cattel to himfelf, WoenMJes went out upon the requelt of Pharaoh, to fue unto the Lord tot the removing of a prefent plague: MofesJ. i i,debaiá t r_a o?rt from thee, and 1 mill intreat the Lord than àe efivarens of cy F,. v r. from Pharaoh,from his Ser- ven.s,andfrom hispeople to morrow ; but` set not r=-baraeh , deal deceit a ly any more, Exua. t?.29. As et ,e had f:id, You have mocked me two or three times, and laid you would let the people go, do not to any more,lett your deceivingof myexpe- áation, prove the greareti deceit of your own. The deluding Dodoes which tome delighted in, are expreti by thisword, ifà.30.9. The k a rebellious people, lying chil- dren, children that will not hear the Law of the Lord: They did not love the Law of the Lord ; What then ? whichJay to the Seers,fee not,& to the Prophets,prophefie not unto us right things, fpeakunto usfmooth things, prophefie deceits. The wickednefs of that people lay in two things; either they would have the Prophets filent,andnot (peak at all,or if they did (peak, they muff Prophetic deceits : They loved to be cozoned, truth made them fman, and they could not abide it. A guilty con- fcience cannot endure plainwords, but it loves fmooth words as many as you will of thefe words ( fay they) or -elfe not a word ;eitherprophetic deceit, or ceafe prophesying. Here Job complains, are there-not deceivers withme ? 'As if he had faid,Tou tell meyou bring the mindof God, but you bring falfe Dotirine,youpreach deceit. Though we cannot fay they prea- ched fmooth things to Job,they fpake hardly enough of him, and harshly enough to him,yet we may fay they preached de- ceitful things to him; for though they did not (peak with an intention to deceive hiîn, yet' they were deceived infpeak- ing, and he had been deceived if he had yielded to what they fpake. In which fenfe Job cals them ( which one would G g g 2 think
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