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…

There is indeed a Days-man betwixt God and man, but God himself hath appointed him. God hath referred the differences betwixt himself and man, unto Jesus Christ; and (his own good will and free grace moving him thereunto) he stands engaged in the bonds of his everlasting truth and faithfulness to perform what Jesus Christ, as Mediator, should ask for us: unto him we may safely commit our cause and our souls, with that assurance of the ⟨p. 393⟩Apostle (2 Tim. 1.12.) I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Christ, God-man is umpire between God and man; what we trust him with shall not miscarry: he will make our cause good, and our persons acceptable before God at that great day. It is infinite mercy, when we were neither able to manage our own cause, nor to find out any in heaven or earth who could, that then God himself should find out one, in wisdom and power like himself, one who thought it no robbery to be equal with God to be our Days-man. Many of the Ancients interpret this Text, either as Jobs desire and prayer, that Christ would come in the flesh, O that there were a days-man betwixt us: or as a prophecy of Jesus Christ, to come as our Days-man in the flesh, There is no Days-man yet, but a Days-man shall come. The sense is pious, but the context will not bear it; In the 16th Chapter, v. 21. and Chap. 17. v. 3. We shall find Job speaking clearly of the Mediator Jesus Christ, and of his great work of atonement between God and man. But here he seems to keep to the present controversy, about the business of affliction, not of salvation.

There is indeed a Daies-man betwixt God and man, but God himself hath appointed him. God hath referred the differences betwixt himself and man, unto Jesus Christ; and (his own good will and free grace moving him thereunto) he stands engaged in the bonds of his everlasting truth and faithfulnes to perform what Jesus Christ, as Mediatour, should ask for us: unto him we may safely commit our cause and our souls, with that assurance of the ⟨p. 393⟩Apostle (2 Tim. 1.12.) I know whom I have believed, and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Christ, God-man is umpire between God and man; what we trust him with shall not miscarry: he will make our cause good, and our persons acceptable before God at that great day. It is infinite mercy, when we were neither able to mannage our own cause, nor to finde out any in heaven or earth who could, that then God himself should finde out one, in wisdom and power like himself, one who thought it no robbery to be equall with God to be our Daies-man. Many of the Ancients interpret this Text, either as Jobs desire and praier, that Christ would come in the flesh, O that there were a days-man betwixt us: or as a prophecy of Jesus Christ, to come as our Daies-man in the flesh, There is no Daies-man yet, but a Daies-man shall come. The sense is pious, but the context will not bear it; In the 16th Chapter, v. 21. and Chap. 17. v. 3. We shall finde Job speaking clearly of the Mediatour Jesus Christ, and of his great work of atonement between God and man. But here he seems to keep to the present controversie, about the businesse of affliction, not of salvation.