736 Chap, z`6: ,An E'xpojttion upon the Book of JO L', Verf 4. vine infpiration, as Elias his was, his was a pure fpirit of zeal, but y -,,uré is a rafh fpirit ofrevenge. And therefore your motion (nits 'not with your calling ; for as I am come, fo I fend ycu, to lave ncr r deftroy. We may fpeake the fame words, and do the fame things which others bave done and (poker', andyet not with the fame but with quire another fpirit. Therefore examine whole fpi. rit c;neea from yen? This is a good and prof: able fence. Yet, 4A!174 Secondly, Lacher thus ¡vhofe fpirit came from ;bee ? that is, t d.jtex to whole foule, or whole minde hath been recovered out of trou bfe ' 'rem con. and fe re, out of fadneffe and forrow by the words which thou (shoo es lam haft f oken. Thus the fpirit is taken for his to whom he eFfrcai!er fur- P P fpake, tnone two, ,,,a not for iiif fpirit who fpake, or not for the fpirit wich which he pima ejuF ex fpake. This is a Greet truth, gracious and right words, rightly nIRY07e gnali in applyed, do as it were relieve the fpirit, and bringhack the faint- c°rpore f/Pulta in yea dead foule, from the rave ofgrief and forrow,wherein jace,ae rur(um . $ y e laubrie p,a. it lay as buried. Now faith 706, Ysbore fpirit canoe frrtn thee ? Haft dierit fefeq,per thou recovered or rttifed any langu4h.ng foul by what th - -u haft corpa,F exferue laid ? who hath felt life and power coming from thee ? I atn r'rci lure I have not,though I have heard thee our, and heard thee at- C4ju! 4nimarn tentively.What the Moralift laid of Idlereffe,the fame may we verbtr rpiF ti,i. vfficaffi r ye_ fay of forrow or heavinefs. It is the burial! ofA nun whilebe li- br,Qi, Apud vetb. And therefore he that bath comforted a mast and recovered tderc; him out ofhis lorrows, may be laid co give him a new life, and that the fpirit of fuck a man is come forth from him: yea,he that -initruc`krth the ignorant, and bringeth them to the laving know- ledge of God, may be laid, to breath or t.ut a foule into them. in which fence Tome of the Jewifh writers expound that place, (Gen. t 5.) where it is laid, That Abraham ¡coke Sarah bid wife, and Lot bid Brothers fon,andall their fubflariee that they bad gathered, and thefoules that they hadgotten in Cbaran, &c,that is, all tholewhom by good inftruáìonand example they had gained to God, or (as theApoRIe speaks, i Titel'. r. 9) had by their meancs turned to rodfrom Idols toferve she living and true grad. There f;;ules they got inOutran though Abrahamand Sarah were barrenof naturall iffue, yet they had much fpirituall ifl'ue, Many fouls or the fouls of many came from them, And therefore when 7thwould put a difparagement uponwhat Bildad had 1po- ken, he puts him this C.Z2eftion, Wh ' fpirit tr- :vbtfe (ou! cage forthfrots, thee ? or whom hat thou rei4lled, as the Greek word which
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