An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

Or thus, We may say the perfection here spoken of, is the perfection of sincerity. Job was sincere, he was sound at the heart, He did not act a part or personate Religion, but was a religious person. He was not gilded, but gold. So the word is interpreted. Some render it, Job was a simple man, (not as simple is put for weak and foolish, but as simple is put for plain hearted; one that is not (as the Apostle James phraseth it) a double minded man) Job was a simple minded man, or a single minded man, one that had not a heart and a heart, he was not a compound, speaking one thing and meaning another, he meant what he spake, and he would speak his mind. It is the same word that is used in Jacobs character, Gen. 25.27. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man ⟨p. 26⟩of the field, and Jacob was Ish Tam, a plaine man, So that to be a perfect man, is to be a plain man, one whose heart you may know by his tongue, and read the mans spirit in his actions. Some are such jugglers, that you can see little of their spirits in their lives, you can learn but little of their minds by their words; Jacob was a plain man and so was Job; some translate it a sound man. It is the same expression that is given of Noah, He was [Tamim] in his generation, or he was sound, upright hearted or perfect with God, Gen. 6.9. And it is that which God speaks to Abraham, Gen. 17.2. Walk before me and be thou [Tamim,] be thou perfect, or sound, or upright, or plain in thy walking before me. In the 28. of Exodus, v. 30. We read of the Urim and the Thummim, on the Breast-plate of the High-priest. Thummim comes from this root, and signified the integrity of heart and life required in the High-priest, as Urim did the light and clearness of his knowledge.

Or thus, We may say the perfection here spoken of, is the perfection of sincerity. Iob was sincere, he was sound at the heart, He did not act a part or personate Religion, but was a religious person. He was not guilded, but gold. So the word is interpreted. Some render it, Iob was a simple man, (not as simple is put for weake and foolish, but as simple is put for plaine hearted; one that is not (as the Apostle Iames phraseth it) a double minded man) Iob was a simple minded man, or a single minded man, one that had not a heart and a heart, he was not a compound, speaking one thing and meaning another, he meant what he spake, and he would speake his mind. It is the same word that is used in Iacobs character,