o Cha i AnEf tion upon the Book o 45 p.r7. x o P. f J O B. Ver1,6 And as he is prove'rbially fpoken of for his fuffering, fo likewife for his holinefs, God made his piety a proverb too, though his friends fufped'ed him for an Hypocrite. When the Lord would thew himfelf fo unalterably refolved, that nothing fhould take him offfrom bringing judgement upon a finful people, he faith, Iwill not do it , though Noah , Daniel, and JobJtood. before me, Ezek, 14. ig.. As if he had faid, will not do it, though the moll eminent men in hotinefs , or the greateff favorites that ever Ihad in the World fhould fue that they might be (pared; if any in the world could obtain this ofGod, Noab, Daniel, and job could, but they (hould not; therefore none (hall. See with what honourable Names he is lifted, Noah, and Daniel, men remembred, yea Crowne ed with honour by God and all good men, are but compas. 1 nterFror°,ur ny good enough for fob Thou haft made me a byword anteo, priw, e. =I? And afòretime I was as a Tabret, we! ante facia, e. in confpe [ Aforetime ] The word may be taken twowayes. flubominum Firfi, As fignifying what was or hath been done in former mum oculis times;in which we tranflate, Aforetime, orformerly I was as Exemplumfur a Tabret. coram oil. Second, As 6gnifying what is or bath been done in the Vulg.; prefenceofothers, Before themIwar as a Tabret : We put in Sumitur vet'. the Margin, Before their face, or in their fight ; That is, They bum 1"opbet ut nBlc being wttneffes ofit, Iwas as a [ Tabret. J ponentum , The Vulgar Latine tranllates the word which we render prodigium, rea Tabret , an Example, I am a by-word and examplt before him t. qua ßx which good p is a fence ; and then the word Tophet, of which m dam prodigio' more by and by) is uled for Mophet , which fignifies a won. fun. der of Come ((range unulual thing which appears, or is re- rbì n.21" ported to the admirationof ill beholders and hearers. I am '""*"'e.5`. a Proverb, and a ((range Example : Strange Examples ynoq` grow often into a Proverb.So the Greek expreffeth it ;and we Etnolleream g P ignominie ex. in Englifh fay to a man whobath offended greatly , You Jhall ponere, Bez. be made anexample , that is, You khall be purely punithed , Greci,dicunt l'1at,r. t 9. fofepb being very tender of the honour of Mary his "law"' nom efpoufed Wife, perceiving that the was with Child before rxAt,s, dicie the came together, g tur profcripau y he was loath tomake her a Paradigme, or publice incipio anexamples of dilbonefly and difloyalty; he was unwilling to make
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