Chap. 23. .4n .gxpofition upon the Book, of J OB. Vera.!; Ihavefet up Saul to be Icings&e. (ver. 29.) And alfo thefzrength ofIfrael will not lie, nor repent ; for be is not it man that he Amid repent. The arength or vi&oryofIfrael,is God, for it was by his ltrength that Ifrael had all his viâories;andofhim Samuel faith, Hewill not repent, when as himfelfehad Paid a little before, It re- penteth me, &c. To thefe S.riptures we may adde, 2 King 20. which in words holds out a great change in theminde ofGod concerning Htzekiab,ifwe compare the firft and the fift verfes of that Chapter together (ver. t.) In chi)fedales Hezekiah mae fiek, unto death, and the Prophet Ifaìab, the fon of Amos, came to him andfaiduntohim, thus faith the Lord, fet thin, boute in order, fir thou Ihale dye not live Here is a ftrong affirmation that Heze kiab (houdd dye ; And co the :.fñ motive the negative is alto ad ded; Thou fhalt dy ,and ñ;t divt.'Tis the ftrongefl manner ofaf- ferting any thing, when the contrary is denyed. As it is faid of john cee Baptift (7.1.7a t: 20.) And he confeffed, and denied not ; but confe fjèd, I am not the Chri f &c. So here, Tb: u jhadt die, and n.t live. Yet we read (vtrf, 5.) ,Ind it came to paffe before Ifaìab wasgone out of the middle Curt, that t -e wordof the L rd came to himfayirg, Turne againe, and tell H zexiah the Captains tfrny people, thus faith the Lord the Coì of`David thy father, I have heard thy prayer!, I have ftenc thy tearer t beho'd I will heale thee; o, the third day thoufhalt gee upineo the houfe cfthe .L;rd, and I will addeunto thy dales fifrecne yeares. Doth not this import an evident change in the minde ofGod :Having difpaccht the Pro- phet to tell Hezekjah,that he ¡hall die,andnot live,He prefently niter, even before he was got out of the Court, fends the fame Prophet backe to tell him that he (hall live, and net die.We have the fame difficulty in that known place in the Prophefie of f onab (Chap. 3.4.) 7onab is lent to Nineveh with a dire meffage ; Yet fortie dales and .Nineveh /hall be overthrown. Notwith- ftanding as loon as the fait was proclaimed and kept,and the Ni- eoivites had repented and turned from their evil wayes, The Lord (tiro repentedof theevil denouncedagainft them ; (ver. to.) And God faw their workes;that they turnedfrom their evidl way,and Clod repented oftheevil that hebadfaid, that be would doe unto them, and bedid it net. Here God repented ofhis threatning. He had faid (Nineveh fhould be over- thrown, yet when theyturned from what they had done, God turned fromwhat be laid he would Iii doe, 42$
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