442 Chap, 20 n expobrh,n upon the Bookof J o B. Vert 2,. more with thee,but thy carriage bath been fuck that I am compelled to anfWlr. Imuft anfwer whether I will or no The old Prophets when they received impref ions from the Spirit of God, were no mare in their o.vre power, or they had not the command . oftheir own words, they muff (peak what the Spirit dictated to them, they could not forbeare. They could not fay as the wicked an defcribed (Pfd. 12.4. ) Our lips are our owne ; no their lips moved as the Spirit of God moved; them.. Thus the Apoiile Peterdefcribes them, (z Ep=_,i. zi.) The 'Prophecy came not in old eime (or at any time) by the will of man :, but holy menof God , keas -they were movedby the hole gheefl, Such a force there . is in the word of theText. Some interpret, as if Zophar would have 706 underftand fo much, that he was moved with the Spirit of God, or that God infpiredhim to fpeake, andhe could not be filent.Davidwas under filch a confiraint(Pf39,3-)M, heart was hot within me,while Iwas muffing thefireburned, thenfpake I ,vith my tongue. Hid thoughts cauftd him to anfwer. And in that ,Zophar faith,My thoughts castfe me,&c. he Items to intimate that . hough he fpake zealoufly,yethe did not fpeak rafhly,but had fe- ¡ouflypremeditated& thought ofthe:whol mater before hand._ fleeceobferve_ : Thoughtspreffé vu to words. They force their way out ; it is a hard thing;- to keep in our thoughts ; our thoughts are as conceptions, and our anfwe rings are as the birth. Where the firft is, the fecond muff follow. Where there is a conception, there alwayes fucceedeth eyther. timely producßion, or abhortion, . Thoughts once conceived and formed, ftrive and ßrugle to come to the birth,and fee the light. The Apoftle Paulufeth fuck an expref ion (Ath 18. 5.) where. the Text faith, that when Silas andTirnothens were come from .1 facedonia,Paul was pref f'ed infpirit ;Paul fpake before; he rea-- Toned in the Synagogue every Sabbath (v. 4.) but after they came from .&facedonia, 'Paul was preffed in fy' irit, or conftrained ; fo.. preffed in fpirit that he could:;not hold therefore it follows, l teff, fled to the ?ewes that 7efuo was Chrifl, he had a new gale a frefh breathing from heaven upon hint, or as fome render, a. Spring -tide cameinupon him, his fpirit fwell'd high and over- Avwed the bankcs. The fatne,word.. s ufed (a Con .5. 14.) The love dyAx7ieoo. ánëey apKdfe gi!uabat,.
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