An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

I know thou wilt not hold me innocent; that is, thou wilt not deal with me as with an innocent person. As the Lord dealt with his ⟨p. 359⟩Son, so he deals with his servants. God the Father dealt with Jesus Christ as with a guilty person (Isa. 53.9, 12.) He was numbered among transgressors, and made his grave with the wicked. The Lord reckoned him as a sinner, while he was satisfying his justice for sin, and making an atonement for sinners. Job is no where called a type of Christ, but he was like him, and their parallel might be drawn in many things, especially in this, that both were numbered with the wicked, and in that both were used, as if they had been guilty. The dispensations of God to his own beloved Son once did, and to his faithful servants often do look like those to the greatest transgressors. His Son was handled, so that he might redeem sinners; his servants are so handled, sometimes to prevent, often to purge them from sin, sometimes to try their graces, always to make them fitter vessels for glory. Though we cannot make any earnings toward glory by the weightiest afflictions, yet these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

I know thou wilt not hold me innocent; that is, thou wilt not deal with me as with an innocent person. As the Lord dealt with his ⟨p. 359⟩Son, so he deals with his servants. God the Father dealt with Jesus Christ as with a guilty person (Isa. 53.9, 12.) He was numbred among transgressours, and made his grave with the wicked. The Lord reckoned him as a sinner, while he was satisfying his justice for sinne, and making an atonement for sinners. Job is no where called a type of Christ, but he was like him, and their parallel might be drawn in many things, especially in this, that both were numbred with the wicked, and in that both were used, as if they had been guilty. The dispensations of God to his own beloved Sonne once did, and to his faithfull servants often doe look like those to the greatest transgressours. His Son was handled, so that he might redeem sinners; his servants are so handled, sometimes to prevent, often to purge them from sin, sometimes to try their graces, alwaies to make them fitter vessels for glory. Though we cannot make any earnings toward glory by the weightiest afflictions, yet these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory.