Chap, r9. An Expofition upon the Bookof JO B. Verf. 24. 315 ved for the obfervation ofafter ages ; learne firft, That our honeft andjut defärehthou h (fomewhat paffionate) areyet gracioufly acceptedand anfweredby God. fob fpeaks here in fome heate, yet his heart was honeft, and his ayme fincere in what he defied, and the Lord granted his delire. He wifheth his words might be written, and his words were written, God provided him a Secretary. lob's tongue was as the pen ofa ready Writer, andGod made ready a writer to pendowne what he fpake with his tongue. Few words have had Inch a writing, or Inch a Writer, his were written in a book, and written as with an iron pen and lead in a rock for ever : they are preferved to this day, and (hall to the endofthe world, as Monuments of his patience and uprightneffe, as alto of the Lords power and faithfulneffe. Secondly, From this confidence of lob in defiring to have what he had laid, or what he had to fay, written, we may ob- ferve ; Truthfeckes no corners. Truth loves to be tryed, it caresnot before whole judge- ment- feat it comes ; it would be written, that it might be feene and confideredof all men, Pure gold feares neither the furnace nor the ballance. Error may thew faire till'tis tryed, but truth fhewes aiwayes faireft after tryall. Thirdly, As this writing fpecially referres to that noble and divine confeffion of faith, which ycb made in the next Verfe ; oblrve ; It is a duty to profef fc our faith openly, when we are cal- led to it. 7,6 had a call to doe this ; for though he were not directly ( and in termini!) invited to make a confeffion of his faith, yet the dealing ofGod, and of his friends with him, put him upon ir, and befpake it of him. 'Tis high time to declare the ground ofour hope, and upon what foundationwe are built, when formes either of affli&ion or perfecution affault and (hakeus ; and then 'cis heft to doe it freely and openly, that our fait') may be as famous as our afl;icgions are. Or (as the S f .a Apollie
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