Chop. 23. An .Exoofition upen the Bookef JOB. Verf it. 3 g t the Apofileextorts ( Eph. 4, 32 ) we forgive as god. or (hrtfl fake hrtbforgiven us , when we are patient and long-fiifkring one towards another, as God is towards us all, then we take held of his its ps;this fhould be our bufincffe every day,to followGod inhis word; and in his workes, tofollow himfully. It is laid of Ca. leb (Num. 14.2.4.)My (ervant Caleb bath anotherfpirit,ht , .ith followedmefully. Hire fome may ob eé, to follow the counfel of God fully, is the dutyofall, but to followthe example of Gad is furely beyond the attainment ofany.This feems to be a bight ofholineffe too high for man; For if Scicmon Paid (Eccl. 2. 12.) What can the man doe that cometh after theKing? even that which bath been already done, or ( more dole to the Originali ) in thofe things whichhave been already done.How much more may we fay, What can the man doe chat comes after God the King ofKings? can he doethat which bath b °en done already.? I ar,fwer, no man can paralcl the workes of God, but all men arecalled to imitate him in his works; though wecannot follow him with equal! Reps, yet we may follow the *quit,' and holines ofhis fteps.This 70b did and we (through grace) may doe. Myfoots bathheldhis fleps, His way have Si kept, andnot declined. Theway ofGod is his Law, in that he will have us to walke, and that is called his way, becaufe he path prefcrib d it, and is the author of inas that is mans way wherein he walks,fo that is Gods way wherein he will have man to walk Bleffed is the undefiled in the way (Pf..l. i 19. s.) What the way is, he tells us in the next Word Bleffdare they that keepe bit toftimonies, andwho walk. in the Law of the Lord. His law and teftimonies are his way : row faith Yeb; As 1 have held hisReps, or followed his example, fo I have kept his way, that is, I have done that which he hath com- manded. The way ofGod is put fometimes in Scripture for that which hirnielfe bath donee ( Ezell, 58, 25. ) HeareO hou(e of If- via dei & ho- rael,, is not my way squall, that is, the way wherein I my fe ifhave mini. J>irnrrur; gone- .. the way of my difpenfations toyou, both in rewarding and I Pronrnere punning. And as the workes of providence, fo the worke of & g",P644 Creation iscalkd the way ofGo Pro. 8.2,2. The Lord o s Pro tp,avía Y ( ) P f ftrata. fermi me in the beginningo fhis way, (that is, before heCaine forth in the workeofCreation) before his workes of old;his way and his workcs are the fame, or his workes are his way. But in this Text (as
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