Chap. 23. An Expofition upon the Book, of JOB. Vera. 12, 40I bath not left us to travel! over hedge andditch, but bath (hewed us our way, a high wayand a way (as theProphet fpeaksIfa, 3 5. 8.) And it be called the mayof holinefe, the way faringmen, thoughfooles,/hall not erre therein. Yet fooles are alwayes erring from it, all their walkings are wandrings,and their going, are go- ings affray who walk and go on in a finfull way. The word which fignifiesfin in the Hebrew, imports moil properly the miffing of a mark ; becaufe finning is a miffing ofthe mark, and a declining from the way, í have kept hie way, and not declined. Vert. t z. Neitherhave Igone backefrom thecemmandement of his lips, &c. cb pcoce:dswith bis negative profcf lion having laid before, Ihave not declined, he faith the fame thingagaine in other words; I have not gone back from the cmmandement of his lips. See, how oftenhe repeats,and inculcates this poynt,both that he might be believed,and that he might thew howconfident hewas in theup. rights es of his owne heart; Ihave not declined,neitiler have Igone back. By thefe various txprt (lions, and often repitions, lob fees forth ingeneral! the s xadlnes ofhis care in keeping clone to God; neither have Igone back. The word figns :°s both to depart, and ,r,n recruit to touch ; and fome put both fignifications together here, imply- de r palpa- ing+ loch a departurefrom a thingor petfon,as not at all to touch rit, reteegt, tia or come neere it again ; which is a total! apoflacy, or defertion receder are from it; As if ob had laid I have not a o atiz dfrom the wa es of an,ua, at tc ;gá A f T apt centreciari God. But this feems kffe then what he fpakebefore ; for having ee.oeat. faid, idid not decline, what need he fay, Ididnot ap Jiarize,for he that doth not fo much+as decline, is farre from apoffatifing. I an- tver, that in this neg ttive there is that ordinary figure extenu- ation,fpeaking leffe then is intended,or intending more then is ex- preffed, and fo, not togee backfrom, is to goe forward in, or to proceed on in the commandements ofGod; and fa the fenfe rifeth higher ; I have kept hie way, and havenot declined, 'neither Non recedere a have Igone backefrom bìe commandement; I have kept ciofe to it mandatis,eß il- without the 'raft willingdeclenfion.I have not laid the comman- la operecomple dement out of myhand, much lefTe have I put it out ofmy heart. dimrei irtere de non And thenwe are tointerpret this negative, 1 have not gone backe, manu out affie- by this affirmative, 1 have flood to tb3 commandements conffaetly ne. Pined. F f f and
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