Chap. a cj. An Expo!ition upon the B00%,of J O B. Verf. 27 . 379 this, (faith rob) I beleeve thctegh my reins beconfirmed within me, that's a third. irho» I flsall fee for my fr/fe. It is one thing to fee, andanother thing to fee forour feives. Iiï fome cafes todoe or fee for our (elves is (ìnfull. As, No mau Amid live to himfelfe; fo in that fence ,No man Amid (er to him - felfe, or for himfelfe. lob prornifeth himfelfe a time, wherein he fhould fee, and doe forhimfelfè without fi n. And there is a do- ing for our felves, or a living to our felves in this life ( much more may it be fo in the-life to come ) which is not fi nfull, nor at all contrary to thofe Gofpell rules ofdenying our feives and living unto God. The, originali which we renderfor my (rife, Eff Daiivue is in the Dative cafe (as Grammarians fpeake ) which imports henev,lenii/, favour,I (hall fee to, or for my felfe, that is, for my owngood, f o on , c("' advantage, and comfort ; The Prophet fpeakes in this con- tz.rd_ firucR'ion (Ifa. 9. 6.) To res oe fon is given, to au a Childe is borne. He is given to us, or for us that is, for our ben: fit, and falva. tion : there was never inch a birth to us is Chriít was, and it werebetter for us never to have beenborne, then not to have an Intereft in the birth of Chrift. Thepromife ofChrift is the foun- dation ofour comfort ; I/ha!l fee him to myfelfe, ( faith fob) as h lving my (hare, my part in him. Or, 1 (hallfee himfor my/ilfe, that is, as a #'rend to me, as he Videb) drain that will take my part, and give fentenc'e on my fide. Some ex- mihi, n'n ad- pound the latter claufe of the verfe fuitably to this ; whom I P ó; éfnee id (hallfeefor my felfe: /and-mine eyesJhall behold him andnot another; a,n pronrancia that is-, not an adverfarie : For the word in the Hebrew fignifies raram. irned. not onely alium,but aliencam,not onely another,but an adverfarie. Videre hecloco, A learned Inter reter puts the word in the Accufative, not in "`'hi Jopirfo- P P + rum. Bold. the Nominative cafe; thus, whom I ;wall fee for myNlfe, and not 41 sno vs. as my aJverrtrie (boot friend) So it reiers to God himfelfe,I fhall ce n tior effe ac- not fee God as a (hanger to me,much lets as ail enemie, but (hall r "l.arwi cafes findehis heart opened to me, andhim ready to receive me into "'"t oo Írarivi, hiseverlatbn embraces, neode5ere rr g f - r1 a4atium It hach been (hewed from the former words, that the happi- velalias, yaam neffe ofSaints after the refurreftion confats in ifion ; Here fob aldouta ipfarn. rifethuptoa fuller affurance of that privile*which glorifi- cd Saints (hall have in heaven ,_Whom I/ballfeefor my felf. C c c x. Hence
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