Cap.i7. An Expofition upon the Book of J OB. Verf.2. 4i3 A good man is upright- hearted,anddown right in all hit deal- ings andflying,. There are nomockins with me, I amwhat I appear, and I appear what I am:. An hypocrite is full of tricks and thifts,he difguifeth both his perfon and his a&ions : No man can tell where to have him, or what to nuke of ¡him. When he- fpeaks, his words do not fignifics what he means, if they fig. nifie any thing ; and when he acts his works do nyt figuitie what he is, they iignifie any thing any rather than.tát. All are mockings of others, though he will find my the cad, that he hath mocked himfelf molt ofall. Secondly, As he joyns this with the next claufe, There are no mockings with me , andyet mine eye continueth in their pro.â vocation.Note,that,How plain heartedfoever a man is, yet it is very hard to perfwade thofe wb`o areonce prejudiced againft him that be isfo. Let lob fay and profefs what he would, yet he could not recover his credit,nor fet himfelfright in the opinion of men, till God did it fer him, Chap, 42. But I pats that, Are there no mockers withme? What the mockingand (corningofJob's friends was, hash beenopened, Cbap.i2.4..,Chap.16...i9. and therefore I refer the Reader thither. Doth nor mine eye continue in their provocation,? Should he not rather have Paid, Doth not mine ear continue, e 'c. Mocking is,the object ofthe ear,and not of the eye. There 'Are fotne mockings indeed, by mimical foolith gettures, and AÌtdúé ín id they are the object ofthe eye ; but here Job fpeaks of what oculorCOI) hehad from them in conference, which is properly the buff- tisaciem in. nefs ofthe ear;and yet he faith, Doth not mine eye continue in tentamhabeo theirprovocation ? By the eye we are to underhand the eye of podmeoffdúc the m'ind.Dotb not mine eye? that is, Have I nota reprefentatis irdrant, in" on in my fpirit, or upon my fancy ofyour mockin sand bitter defixeje man* 5 P P y ' g net mea' cagi- provocations, even as if they were vifible before mine eyes.? eationes.Merc, Have I not night vifions and apparitions upon my bed, ofIffidies no£tef what you (peak or act againfi me every day ? que nonceffrnt Again, we may expound the Text. properly of his 'bodily e%a(meumnt eye;becaufe the trouble which theygave him to the day time, Jun. hindred his Beep in thenight. The Letter of the Hebrew fa Intenta cogitao yours this fenfe,Doth not mine eye lodge in theirprovocation? So ,iofomnum we put in the Margin of our Bibles Hence Matter Broughton impedit. reads;
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