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THE BANQUET of Jobs Children.

THE BANQVET of Jobs Children.

JOB. 1. 4. 5. verses. 4 And his sons went and banqueted in their houses every one his day: and sent and called their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 And when the days of their banqueting were gone about, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings, according to the number of them all. For Job thought, it may be that my sons have sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. Thus did Job every day.

IOB. 1. 4. 5. verses. 4 And his sons went and banquetted in their houses euery one his daye: and sent and called their three sisters to eate and drinke with them. 5 And when the daies of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning and offered burnt offerings, according to the number of them all. For Iob thought, it may bee that my sonnes haue sinned and blasphemed God in their hearts. Thus did Iob euery day.

This book is a story of patient Job, to show how God can deal with all, and how they should receive all things at his hand, seeing the most innocent man in the world, when God should try him, was brought so low, that the Devil had power to lay upon him what torment he would, death only excepted, and yet he stood to it with ⟨p. 1035⟩such constancy, that he saith, though the Lord kill me, yet will I trust in him, the thirteenth Chapter of Job, and fifteenth verse. Such power was given unto his faith, and love, and patience, that they overcame the Devil, which said that if he might have leave to plague him, he would make him blaspheme God to his face, verse, 11. Therefore God would have this victory to be recorded for all such as are sick, or sore, or needy, or oppressed, that whatsoever pain we suffer, we may remember that Jobs pain was sharper than this, and yet it could not make him so impatient: but when like a man he was offended with his torments; like an holy man he was more offended with himself, and angry with his anger. Therefore at last God returned to him, and removed his troubles and made his end more honourable than his beginning, as if he should say, Thus it shall be done to the man which is not offended with my chastisements. Now to our purpose, in the first verse of this Chapter, the holy Ghost showeth what a good man Job was, saying; that he was an upright and just man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. In the second verse, he showeth what store of children Job had: saying, he had seven sons and three daughters. In the third verse he showeth what store of riches Job had: saying, his substance