'Chap. 23. fin Bxpofttionupan the BookFf JOB. Vert. 6. 343 people ( I grant ) in righteoulneffe, as welras in mercy (as the Apoftle fpeaks (Rom. 3.25, 26.) godbathfetforth yeftu Chriff, to be a propitiation through faith in his blood; to d:Zlare hie' riQhte- oufntfe.for the remifon(ór pafrg cver)offins that are pafthrofogh theforbearance of God, to declare I f y at this time hisrightettsr. xede; and thejuflifter (fbins that beleeveth in 7e/i.e. The ¡Alice or righteoufnefleof God was never fo fully declared as in thrift; for God did not !pare him at ail, but he having taken our debt upon him, dilcharged it to this utmoft farthing. God pleaded a- gainft Chrift with his great power, and withhis perfc t righte- oufnefíe; Towhich plea thrift made anfwer with as Great a power(hís being the power cifGod)and with as perfe& a righte- oufneffe,his being allo the righteoufnefe ofCod.And hence it is, that when God comes to plead with Beleevers , he pleads not againft them with his power and righteoufnefïe,feeing thrift with both pleads for them;He pleads for them not onely ache is Jenas Chrift the righteous, but as he is the mighty, the All-powerfulf God. This is the chiefeft ground of a beleevers confidence, that God jas lob here faith)will not plead againft him with his great power,What then did 76b beleeve would G: d doe with him ? the next words enforme us what his faith wrab in that particular. But be mouldput ffrer,pth in me. (So we render) the Hebrew is only thus ; He wilt' pate in me ; Ve,i+rtate,n :Pe' what he would put is not expreffed in the Original) ; which bath r^'i't in mc. caufed foÿne variety of opinion what it fhnu'dbe that the Lord rt., would pint into him ; and 1 finde a threes .old conjeaure in the poynt. Firft, The. fupplement is made trills, He wouldproduce arga. meats or resfont again# me ; and this is conceived moft fuitable to the context, and (cope of the place, as al fó to theaetion ofplead- Panetet ing before fPoken of;. w5ulw he plead n'ithor.egaingme with his f t-et inr.c,t teat ow r no but he would ew me the rea ott o his ae /:r s nit ratione,. B p . , - ; Ih Î f; A h1cm. me he c ould not proceed again"' ire in a martial.' but in a legal ¡A;e por,eret r5 way,not in a prerogative but in a difcourfive argumenrive way r ten;iné in rr.a he would (hew me the caule whyhe thus conrendeth with tne, ed acn rchu- and hath fo forely afllieted me, God would condefcend fo farce ;ér ec.wri a°6- tomy weaknefs as to give me an account, shough I dare not pre- fare costeraio fume to call him to an account ; and though hebath both power ne. ch,. and
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