Chap. 23, fin Exp:ftion upon the Book of JOB. \Teri i .. you, ye (hall not get this yoakeoffyour necks, nor your neckes out of this collar, it Bull be an abiding evill, which will not goe back as ye have not gone Backe from the evill of (in, fo ye (hall not goe backe from the evill ofpunifhment, it will not remove from you, or (hall ye remove from it. Sohere, Ihave not gone backe, or removed my necke from the commandement ofGod, I have not furred a foote from it. Yet furl ser,th<rt whichbefote,he called the wayofgel here he calls the c.:raosandemertof hie lips; lips are the inftruments of !peel]. . a fpirit, and bath no corporeal) parts ; the Scrip- ture fpeakes thus of God after the manner ofmen ; becaufe men fpetke with their sips (their lips being a principal) inítrument of Ipeecl-) tt.ecero'e the commandement which God bath made kttr» ne and ipaken (:n away peculiar to bimfelfe) is called the comm<andetn e of his lips. Mr Broughton tranflates ft iftly to the Prsceptum (a letter ; H!°lips !awes 14 not of Ahd when lob calleth the corn. 1710YU!a, i e. mandements orGod, the commandementsofhislips,it bath a great''tctprNm !a force in it; to oblige obey them. man to reverence, and They areb'nouncratjz `jut u pmro . a not cornMandethe ìts which he bathpublifhed by others onely, Genirivcuadir"s- he bath alio,publifhed them himfelfe. They are the cómmande. z e<< egcie,- ments ofhis lips, that is, tholecommandements whichas he trade tic. Pifc' and others fpeake in his n x.e; fo hebath fpoken them too.He is &tnplaticur e(f both the Author and the publifher ofthem. (Exod. zo. e.) And life Kebraifnn o godfpa%e all thefe words and fail. David (Pfal. 66. 13, 14. ) d.i majorë P"" puts that empha,acallyupon his holevowes, to Phew how hewas me,dadió e e- engaged :o perforne them , 1usillg,oe into thy bottle with burnt7ere11tiam offerings, andIwill pay thee my vowes that my lips have uttered, ob ervantiam, andmy mouth bath r<kenwhen 1was in trouble: As if he had fail, tc .4uod ab ri# my vowes are not only iuch 1' I have conceived in my heart, and dez ore prolate. refolved in my one thoughts, br Ihave fpoken them out andBold. declared them openly, therefore it ryes uponme nor only in con. fcience, bur. in honour to pay and performe them. Ifwe muff do, what our lips heveuttered, much more mutt we doe what God bathuttered wirhhis lips. Lip, labcu" mill not aníwer thole cam.. mandementswhichare the labour ofGods lips.Therefare faith 7o6, .1 have not turnedbackfrom the commandement ofhis lips. Hence Objerve ; Firfi, AKJ!" mans way isforward, be doth not turne back.;' He doth not decline, either to the right band or to the left, f f =kb 403
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