Chap. 23. An Expofitionupen the Booked' JOB. Verf. to. 38? we are chitfly tounderftand the meaningof lob in this place. Tab had long before undergone a tryall by profperity and pralle, ?ob was at that time under tryall by affïic`tion he had paft the for- mer and was under the latter, yea, he was deepin ic,but as yet he I, eligitur de hadnot come to this tryall of Examinacion,or to a judiciary try - f'ÌJh del exzw all, which heearneftly begg'dofGod. All men (hall come to mine in .fuoiu. fuch a tryall in the Great day. we muff all appeare before the d c'e od 4u'd fudgement feat ofChrift, that every one may receive the things ,aóMerc7"g done in his body, according to that he hash done, whether it begood or bad (z Cor. 5.1o.) Some expound lob appealing here to that Judgment.But I conceive that the whole tendency of his difcourfe aimes at an earlyer Judgement or day of tryall then that. And though (poflibly) his expectation was not great, if any at all, that Godwould grant him aprivateSeffi@n (as we may call it) for his perfonall tryall,yet (to thew that hehad not the leaft luf- pitionofbeing acquitted in that day whenfoever it fbould be) he importunately profeffeth he could wifb it might be thenext day, and thathe would refufe no paines nor craven, for the procuring of filch a day, were itto beobtained ; being fully fatisficd from the light and didates ofhis own Confcience, that when the Lord had fo tryed him, he (as David fpake in the place lately opened) fhouldfinde nothing, no Inch fault or guilt as was charged upon him, Chrift writing to the Angel of the Church ofEpherus,gives him this among other commendations ( Rev 2. 2.) Thou hpff tryed them whichfay they are Ap-files and are not, andh.tflfound them lyars. Many appeare faire in holinefs, and boaft highly of their priviledges, (even as high as an infallible Spirit and imme- diate miffion) who yet being tryed and throughly examined by. the Church, or by ehofewho are fpiritaall, and have fences exer- cifed to difcerne both good and evil!, will be found lyars, coun- terfeit fluffe, and lighter then vanity.But lob was perfwaded that though God fhould try him, not orely fhould nothing be found againft hirf, nor he found a lyar, but that much would befound for him, and himfelfe be found in the truth,ashe plainely expref- feth in the dole of the verle; when he bath tried me, what then ? EEred.>ar ex )ìoß. - I(hallcomeforth sti geld. tgreeprobn:onu Here's the iffue ofthe tryal.There are leaven words ufed in the-m" p coent,ó if Original for gold;Thatin the text notes the colour or yellownes La ;t innoa,, of tnei. Pined,.
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