Chap. 2,0. An Expofitson upon the Booke of J O B. Vert. 2. 445 Rating of our haft and delay gives a good iffue to all our acti- ons ; fometimes haft is bell; fometimes flay is belt, sometimes we cannot be too hafty, sometimes we can hardly be too flow. Paul was refolute ( Gal. r. r 6.) he made no ftop, he would not flay for aconference ; When it plea/edGod to rtveale his Sonne in me, thatI might preach him among theHeathen,immediat y I confer- red -: of with fl ß.' and6loud : He went not to coutffei, e} ther with his owneheart, or with the wifttt heads, when once the minde ofGod was cleared up to him, and his confcience was attached with ir. We cannot doe that too Toone which is alwayes to be done. Yet about many things we may fay (as one was wont ) Let us not make much bafít, that fo ire may have done the sooner. Again, Zophar looking upon 7cb as a man miftaken and in &- wrong way, faith, For this 1 makehaft. Hence Note ; h is our duty to haften the recalling and reducing of thole that'' are engaged in any error, or departedfrom the way oftruth` andholineffe. Zophars fuppoftion is a rule for us towalke by, though his, prat ice be not . he was miftaken in the object of his halt, not in the ground or rife of it. He that feeth his neighbours bottle- on fire, should make haft to quench it ; He that feeth him fallen into a pit, should make haft to pull him out; in a desperate dtfeafe, we make haft to the Phycitian ; such were Zophar/ ap. prehenfions concerning yob : He fuppofed his foule difeafed and ready to gangrene with erroneous opinions, or finfull practices : Andfor this he made haft. As Paul fpeaks ((al. 2. 5.) about false Brethren in the thingsof the Gospel, to whom we gave not place no notfor an houre. 'Paul made haft to reduce them,. he didnot- delay nonot an house fo should we, Asthe Sunne fhould not goe downe upononr wrath, ( we muff make haft to. be reconciled to an offended brother ) fo the Sun fhould not goe downe upon our zeale,we mutt make haft to recover a lapfed bro. then. He that maketh the former delay givethplace to the Devil (as the Apoftle fpeakes) to take an advantage again and pre-. vaile upon himfelfe, and he that maketh the latter delay giveth place to the Devil to take.an advantage agáinft and prevaile upon .. his brother._ Vrf. 30.'
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