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Chap.
3
2.
An
Expo,
fimien
upon
the
Book
,of
J
o
s.
Verf. 2.
17
had
rather
a
thoufand
times
his
tòngue fhould
have been
cut
out
of
his
mouth, then
to juflifie
himfelfe with
it
rather then
God,
or
to
fpeak
a
word
to
the difparagement
of
Gods Juflice.
So
then
it
was
hard
for
Eau
to
charge
Job
thus, though
yob
had
let,
fall
fome
inconfiderate fpeeches,
which
adminiflred
occafion for fuch
a
charge. And one
of the
Ancients
fpeakes of
difficulties and
feeming contradi
&ions in
Scripture
;
Drflingui
fly
the times,
and
the
Scriptures will accord;
So
diflinguifh the time
of
this.diïpute,
take
job at
the
beginning of
it,
before he
was
teazed
and
heated
by his
friends,
and
then
he
fpake
at
a
very
low
rate of himfelfe
;
If
I
were
righteous
I
would not know
my owne
fouie.
But in the
heat
and towards the later end
ofthis
long dìfpuce,
Sob
gave
too
much
advantage for
fuch a
conflru&ion
to
be put upon
his
words,
that
he
ju(lif
ed
himfelfe
rather
then
God
;
then
which
nothing
can
be
faid
more unjdflitiable,
nor
more reproveable.
Hence
obferve
;
7o
juflifie
our
[elves doth ufually
and juflly lay
us
open
to
the
reproofe
of
others
;
or,
Yo
jujPi
fie our
felves, drawer blame
upon
our
[elves.
Yo
juflifie, is
foure
wayes
ufed
in
Scripture.
Firfl
,
(
which is
the moll
remarkable and excellent a&
of
it
)
God
juflifieth
man
(
Rom.
8.
3
3.)
It
is God
that juffi
fieth.
This
a&
of
divine
Grace
confifls
in
two
things
;
Firfl,
in
the imputati-
on
of Chrifls righteoufneflè to
us
;
Secondly,
in
the free
remifFí-
on
of
our
fins.
Secondly,
Man
juflifieth
God
(Lull.
7. 29,
30.)
And
all
the
people
that
heard
him,and
the
Publicans
juf
ified
God
)
being bap-
tized
with the
Bapttfine of
fohn.
Where to
juflifie imports
as
much
as
to Glorifie
doth,
(Ails
13.
48.
) And
when the Gentiles
heard
this,
they
were
glad
and glorified
the
word
of
the
Lord
;
That
Is,
they readily approved
and
received the
word
of
the
Lord
;
when we
approve
the Do&rine,
and doings
of
God,
his
word and
works, then we juflifie him.
And
how
ready
Qaould
we
be
on
all occafions
to juflifie
God,
who only
is
and is
altogether good,
when
he is
fo
gracioufly
ready to
jutifie
us
who are evil!,
altoge-
eher
evill
and
ungodly.
Thirdly
,
We
read in Scripture
of man
juflifying man, which
is
done any of
thefe three
wayes.
D
Firfl
,