2z6 . Chap, z2., .tln F.,arpclition upon the Bookóf JOB. Verf. 22. the preffures ofcorruption) be negligent i'nthat ; it is the worke ofa godly man, who bath the law of God in his heart already, , continually to lay up the law in his heart;and fo we are to under. ftand filch Scriptures as thefe (`Pro, 7. 3.) Keepe Commande- ments and live, andmy law as theapple of thine rye, bind them on thy fingers, write them on the table ofthine heart, &c.The fire wri- tingof the law in the heart is by the finger of the Spirit, by Gods own finger. As it was God that.feft wrote the law in ta. bles of fcone with his own finger, fo it is he that writes the law in thefe &fhly Tables ofthe heart by the finger ofthe Spirit : yet Solomon perfwades his fon to write the law upon the Table ofhis heart: when grace is received, and the law once written in our hearts, we doe as it were put in feverall frefh Copies of the law, we are continually writing divine notions and Inftrations upon our hearts ; thisrenewed ac`.t is afcribed to us, becaufe we through grace joyne in it. We have anExpreflionoflike import (Pro. 4 21.) My fon attend to ony words, encline thine ear to my Paying, : let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midft of thine heart. The heart is faid to be the midft or Center of the body, now, faith he, keep the lawin the very midft of thine heart, in the fafeft place ; as theheart is the fafeft place the middle of thebo. dy, fo the middle of the heart is the fafeft placeof the heart. So we may underftand that of David, Ihave hid thy Commande- ments in my h are (Pfal. I 19. I t .) And ( Deus. 6.6.) Th-fe words which Icommand thee thie day,Thrall be in thine beart;'.bat is, thou (halt lay them up there. Of this layingup the law in the heart weare to underftand Eliphaz here ; as if he had Paid, O ?ob, thou haft often beard ofthe law, but rhos haft been a forgetful! hearer, now heare it, and bold it now(as the flpoftle exhorts the Hebrews, .Heb. 2. z.) give the more earneft heed to doe.things, which thou h4 beard,or (halt hereafterhear,lcft at any time thou fiiouldeft let them flip, or thou !houldefi run out (aswe there put in the margin )- a leakingvf¡el. Further, This laying up the word in the heart, is oppofd unto a barebar-enknowledge ; it is not enough to have the wordof God in our heads,that is,to know it:it is not enough to have the word of Godupon our tongues;that is,to fpeak of it,but we muff lay it up in the heart ; For though the heart*: Scripture,takes in the underftanding, and the whole foule,yet chiefly it refpe is the
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