404 Chap. z 9. An Expofstion upon the Booke of J OB. Vert 28. fay.come,let ;es lay waite for the bloud.7obaccording to this tranfla- tion ishere conceived reproving andchiding his friends for Inch a combination ;wherefore doeyefay, let us perfecute him ? . quurnjam Fourthly , Our tranflation gives the words the fence of art efferur in 0r- Exhortation, either to confider whI they had alreadie oppo- dibus vefiris fed him, or ro repent of that oppofition ; Ire Jhould fay, that is, cempungeremi- ; ni, dicente,, it is your dutie, I exho_ t oradvile you to fay, why doe we perfe- quare pe fequi- cute him ? It is but time that you fhould now recollect your n-ur virrirn pro- felves, andbe in abetter minde, that your hearts fhould finite bum, qg rei!è ou for what you have done and that you fhould put this uefti- dedeo,deq; Y y 9 Y P q divinú lenú on home to your own foules, why havewe thus farre troubled tem?IiabbLev. him ? or why fhould we trouble him any further ? Some joyne thisverfe with the former, thus ; Mygrìefe and forrow arefogreat, mypaint is f o painful!, that my very reins are confirmedwithinme ; fo that unleffeyou had put offall humanitie, unl'effeyotsr compaf/ons were totally confirmed in you, you would have (aid before this tème, Why doe we perfecute a dry leafe ? why. doe weperfecute a cark.affe, a deadman, a man whole reins are con- fumedwithin him. From the thirdof thofe readings, which re- proveth-theirperfevering, or refolvedneffe to perfevere in the way they were in, Obferve ; Toadvice and refolve upon anyfinfull way,as- a highaggrava- tion offtnne. It is bad enough to fin for want ofadvice, but to fin advice redly is farreworfe. To faile or fin is common to men, yea even to the bell ofmen, but to refolve to fin, or to be refolute in finning, is proper to the Devill, and the charac4erof the worfl ofmen. I have elfewhere in this Pooke had occafion to rayfe obfervations ofneare affinitie with this, and therefore I onely touch it here. From our reading, at youJhould fay, why perfecute we him ? `lob feems to tax his friends with raftreffeand inconfideratenes ;. Tomfhould fay ; but you have not, you have not yet examined your own hearts, nor my condition as you ought. Hence obferve ; That as fmefpeakthey know not what, fo othersdoe they know not why; their allions outrun their realu, and they are more bit* thenwife. Cl r,ft wa3 perfecuted to the higheft,. he was perfecuted to death
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