401 a SHORT VIEW Or SCRIPTURE HISTORY. younger than the rest, and had come to visit him, took a middle way to end this controversy, and spoke more agreeably to the truth : And though he reproved the three friends for assert- ing that God would never afflict any innocent man so much as Job was afflicted, yet he severely reproved Job for insisting so much on his own innocence before God ; Chapters xxxii. xxxiii. &ç. 16. Q. What was the foundation of Elihu's argument on this occasion ? A. The supreme majesty and holiness of God, the meanness and sinfulness of the best of men in his sight, hiss sovereign dominion over all things, and the unsearchableness of his wisdom and his conduct toward .men ; Chapters xxxiii. xxxvi. &c. 17. Q. How did Godhimself manifestly engage in deciding this controversy ? A. He greatly confirmed the sentiments and opinions of Elihu, by asserting and displaying his own supreme wisdom and power, his grandeur and dominion over all things, by a voiceout of the whirlwind ; Chapters xxxv. &c. 18. Q. What effect had this upon his servant Job ? A. Job confessed his folly, abhorred himself for his sin under the appre- hension of the holiness and the majesty of God, and repented in dust and ashes ; Job xlii. 1 & 19. Q. How did God deal with the three friends of Job ? A. He disapproved of their false accusations of Job, and their wrong sentiments concerning God himself and his conduct, and bid them oiler a sacrifice of atonement, and Job to pray for them ; Verses 7, 8. 20. Q. What tokens of approbation and favour did God spew to Job ? A. While Job prayed for his friends, God relea- sed him from all his afflictions, and afterward gave him ten child- ren, as hehad at first, he doubled his estate, and prolonged his life to four generations ; Chap. xlii. 10-17. CHAP. XV.The History of Jonah. I. QUESTION. WHO was Jonah ? Ans. A prophet who lived about the time òf Jeroboam the second, the king of Israel ; Jonah i. 1. 2 Kings xiv. 25. There is no need of particular citations of chapter and verse for the history of' Jonah, since the whole is continued in four short chapters. .2. Q. Whither did God send hirn? A. He was sent to Nineveh, to pronounce destruction upon that great city for their wickedness. 3 Q. How did Jonah disobey God ? A. He took shipping and fled toward Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, because
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