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Thaw-cannot
iudge
ofour
elate
in
the
time
oftentation.
í
69
difeafes
of
finne
and
corruption
?
what wonder
is
it
if
they
vtter
railing
fpecches
when the
fence
of
paine
preffeth
them
fo fore
?
how
is
it potfble
but that
they fhould
doubt
of
Gods
gracious loue and
fauour,
when
as
they prefently tafle
of
but
his
rigor and
iuftice
?
We
mull
not
therefore iudge
ofour
flue
while the
crofhe<
is
vpon
vs, for
fo
fhould
we
condemne the
generation
of
the 4:Sec`.g,:
iufl to be moll wicked, then fhould
wee
imagine thofe who
Example
to
haue
excelled
in
patience
to
bee
moll
wa
wand
and impati-
``eere the
for
-
p
Y
p
merPoint.
ent.
Looke vpon
lob
who
is
renowned for patience,and you
tam,
5.1
a.
!hall
find
that
while
the hand
ofGod
was
vpon
him,
hee be
-.
wraieth
the corruption
of
the
flefh
and
fheweth notable
im-
patiencie, curling the
day
ofhis
natiuitie,
and
wifhing
that
.
he
had
neuer been
borne, or
elfe
that
hee had prefentlie
after
his
birth
been fwallowed
vp
in
the
iawes
ofdeath,
Iob
3.So
Fob
3
&.4.S.
chap.6.8.9.
he
thus crieth out like
a man
utterly
defperat:
O 91o.
that
I
might haue
my
de/ire,
and
that
God would
graunt
me
the
thang
that Ilengfor.9.That is,that
CI
od
witld drflroy
me:
that
he
would
let
his
hand
goe
and cut
me
off.
io.
Then
fhould ./Jet
haue
fomecoinfort,
thoup-h
I
burn
with
forrow: let
him not
fpare,&c.
Where
lob
feemeth to deale
with
God
as
a
condemnedmale-
fa for
with
a
iufl
&
feuere
iudge,who
Peeing
the
anger
of
the
Iudge
incenfed
againft him
for his
crime,hath
no
hope
that
hee can by
intreatie
and perfwafions moouc him
to reuoke
his fentence
ofdeath,
and therefore onlie
deíreth
a
mitiga-
tion
of
the
tortures,and that
hee may
quicklie be
difpatched
and ridde out
of
his paine
;
nammif
ricordixgentts
e
citò
occidere,
it
is
a
kinde oftnercie to
bee
fpeedie in execution
:
_
So
lob
having
no
hope to be
freed from his miferies,
delireth
onelie this
favour at
Gods
hands,
that
hee
would
not
(as
it
were)
torment
him peecemealc,
but
make
a
quick
e
difpatch
ofhim
by laying
on a
greater
waight
of
ali&ions,
till by
their
vnfupportable
burthen
the
breath
were preffed
out
of
his
body.And
chap. i
o.
i
8.wherefore
haft thou
brought
me
out
fob
ao.0,.
of
the
wombe
?
Oh
that
I
had
perifhed,
and
that
none
eie
had
feene
me !
19.
And
that
I
were
ds
I
had
not
been,
but
brought
from the?
ombe
to
thegraue.
Looke
vpon the
Prophet
David
who
was
a
man
according
to
Gods
owne
heart,
endued
with