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Chap.
3a. An
Expofitiän
upon
the
Boob,,of
J
o
$. Verf.
a
Neutr4
fenten-
young man
;
And therefore
as
Saul
( i
Sam.
17. 56.
)
when
he
tie
arced
teem,
law
David
a
young
man, he asked after
his
narentage
;
Enaitire
fed
Ram
whole
Son
thisfiripling
is
;
I would
faine
know his
kindred.
So
the
quempiamfue
putarim virum
kindred ofElihu
is
thus
diftinctly fet downe, that
he who by rea-
celebrem
et
c1a- fora
of
his youth was
little
knowne
as
to
his
perfon , might
be
the
rum ex
ffmitia
better
knowne by his
Anceftors, or parentage.
%[ahor.
Mere:
Secondly, His parentage
is
thus
difiindly let
downe,
to
afire
us,
that
this
is a
true hi(fory;
For fame
have
made the
whole
booke
of
fob
to
be
but
a
parable, afferting
there
was no
fuch
reali
thing. But
this
one paffage
gives
an
undeniable proofe, that
this
was
a
reali hiflory,
and
the
matter
really
aóted. This
perfon
be-
ing defcribed
by
his owne name and his
fathers
name,
and
the
next of
his
kindred.
from
the confiderationof
the
perfon who carried
on
fo
great
a
part
in
this bufineffe, Etihu, the
fon
of
Barachel the Buzite
of the
kindred
ofRam,
who was
of
a
ftrange
Country,
and
if
allyed
to
Abraham, yet
at
agreat
diftance;
we
may obferve
;
God
did preferve
a
feed
of
riligton,
and
of
holy
men
to
maintain
his
truth
among thofe
who
lived
in
dark!
places
,
and
were
wrapt
up
in
many
errors
and
ftsperfiitions
.
This
was
alto
no:ed
from
the
drib
words
of
this booke
, There
was a man in the
Land
of
Vz;A
man of gracious
actor
plifhments
'and
of
a
heavenly
light. Here
alto
was
Elihu
the Buzite, A
matt
that
had
great knowledge about
holy things
(
as
we
lhall
fee
af-
terwards)
in
thole parts
and
times
when and
where abundance
of
darknefie blindneffe andignorance
reigned.
Having thus
defcribed Elshu; The
hiflory
proceeds.
Againsrl
fob
was
his
wrath
kindled,
becaufe
he
juftified
himfelfe
rather
then
God.
Ín the
former
part of
the verle
it
is faid
;
Then was kindled
the
wrath
of
Elihes
;
Not
fpecifying againft whom,nor
the
caul
why ;
here
he
doubles the
fame
words, with
an
addition,
firft,
of
the
perfon with
whom
he
was
angry
;
Againfl
fob
was
his
wrath
kind-
led.
And
as
he tells
us
the marke
or
obje61
of
his wrath
x:
fo
he
gives, fecondly,the
reafon
of
ir;
Becaufe
he juflified himfelf
rather
then
God.
Before
I
come
to the explication
of
this
latter
branch,
take there two
brief notes.
First,