700 Chap. 25. An Expojtion upon theBeekof JOB. Verf.4: not Impost ber denyall ofthe thing, but her wonder at it,nor did it imply her unbeleefe, as if thee thought it Impofible to be, but her ¿dire to be Informed in the way and manner how it fhould be, and to that fence Thee is anfwered, The holy GO 'hall row upon thee, and the power of the matt high (hall over fhador thee. Buß here (I fay) the (Tuition, ( bow can man be fnfiifled wins W1t calami Cod ?is reducible to this plaine negative propofition MLn can Tofu, agrotabi not be 7nfliled with God : How can Wan ? thi t is (as the word figs- inDrb" roar' nifieth) slaiierable man, ficloy man, weake Impotent man? and rig; obnexrtt, a Afar/us from. it may note not only the Impotency ofhis body, but of his fpirit, Inn proTt?trine Man is ofa weake body at heft, andof a more weake and sickly icrcnr. fpirit. Matter Broughton: trarflation reacheth both; And why ßiaaldforrowfrll wanplead 7of/ice with the Omnipotent ? Man is cotnp:,ffed about with forrowes, and every man is in himfelfe, what Chrift was more eminently forus all, a manofforrowes, and acquaintedwithgriefe (I13.5 3. 3.) We take the word in its gene- ra ì fagnification. How then can man be 74fied ? Bildad feemes (ale fome expound lien) by this qucffion,to fuf - pe e t that 766 had afíested a fclfe-}uflifcation, and it mutt becon- fared that what he fpake at the 23d Chapter, ver. 1 0, 1 1 , 1 2. might give him fomecolour for that fufpicion; Hee kn.weth the way that hake, when be bath tryed nee I/hall cane forth as geld. My foot bath followedhie f$eps,bie way bave I kept and havenet de- clined, neither leave Igone kick from the Commandement, of hie lips : I have 'fleemed the words of be mouth more then my neceffar, food. While ?oh thus afferred his ovine innocency and Integrity, Bildadmight pofliibly fuppofe that hee was alerting his owns right -oufa fre; aid therefore not without force indignation bee expottu!at; s 'he matter with him,H w can man be 7444 ? that is, pronounced cleane andquit at theThrone of God. 7nf1ificati- on t Con.dered in the Cospel notion ) is thatgraciotaa prunes of Cod, wherein with re/pert` to Cbrii apprehended byfaith, hee abfol- vetb the beleeverfromfin and death, and deck repo to him jot and righte- st, unto eternal life. Of this the Apoflle Creates at laige in the 3d4th and 5jh Chaptersofthe Epitile ro rite Rmanes, and in that to the Galatians. This doctrine of free jutiiftcation i' the founda,.
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