Chap.i7. An Expofltion upon the Book of j O B. Ver,6. 45 make her a publique example, and therefore was minded top:ut her awayprivily, Till the Lord gave him warning in a dream about it : So faithJob here, according to this rendring, Iam a by-ward among the people, and as it were, a Paradigme, a pub dickexample. Great aih ions have thefe three things in them, in reference to others. Firn, They area wonder toothers. Secondly, They are a terrour to others. Thirdly, They are an infirution unto others. We find all thefe and more in one Verfe, Ezek. 5. 15. So Jhall it be a reproach anda taunt, aninfiruelion and an aftonifh. ment unto the Nations roundabout thee, when I fha!l execute Judgements in thee in anger, and infury and infurious rebuke, I the Lord havefpoken it. The Apofile Peter defcribing the judgements ofGod, firtl, upon the Angels, Secondly, upon the old Word, and lafily, upon Sodome, andGomorah, faith, that God turning tie Cities ofSodom andGomorrah into afbes, condemned themwith an over threw, making them an enfample to tbofé that after fhould live ungodly, z Pet. 2 G. The burning of thofe five Cities by im- mediate fire from heaven, made them exarnples,or infiru&ions to all fucceeding Generations ; we may read the odioúfnefs of thofe fins, and the feverity of God againti them, by the light of that fire to this very day. Great afflifi:ions are teach- ing affliF.}ions ; thofe calamitieswhich deftroyfome (kouldinftrutt all : Weare not only to admire and wonder at them, to be a. mazed and terrified at them, but to be taught and admo- nifhed by them. Sothe Apofile concludes concerning the fe- veral judgements which. God had brought upon the Jews , while they murmured and difobeyed him in the Wildernefs: 4llthefe things °bappenedto them for examples (or types) and they are writtenfor our admonition, uponwhom the ends of the Worldarecome i Cora o. r r . There are two fort of .exam- pies-Written in the word. Firft, thereare examples for our imitation, Secondly, Thereare examples for our caution. Some are examples by the good which they have done, thefe mull be imitated ; others are Examples by the evils which they have fufhered, by thefe we muff be warned : This tranflation ofthe Text intends Job an exampleof Caution. M mm 2 Again,
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