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…

And here, more then there,¹ he remonstrates that he conceived himself more hardly dealt with, then stood not only with the goodness of God in his nature, but with that goodness which he had formerly acted both towards others and himself: This encouraged him about the close of the Chapter (vers. 20, and 22.) to petition again, that he might have a little refreshing before he lay down in his grave: and that God would (after these storms) return him some of those fair days he had enjoyed, before he returned to the earth, and should be seen no more.

And here, more then there,¹ he remonstrates that he conceived himself more hardly dealt with, then stood not only with the goodnesse of God in his nature, but with that goodnesse which he had formerly acted both towards others and himself: This encouraged him about the close of the Chapter (vers. 20, and 22.) to petition again, that he might have a little refreshing before he lay down in his grave: and that God would (after these storms) return him some of those fair daies he had enjoyed, before he returned to the earth, and should be seen no more.

1. 1Argumentis utitur à natura Dei & ante-acceptis ipsius beneficijs, quibus mala haec quae immifit Deus magnopere repugnare videantur. Merl.

His complaint is very rhetorical and high,¹ yet with an allay or mixture of modesty. Indeed his spirit brake out, and passion got head, at the 18, and 19 verses, where he expostulates with God, in the language of the third Chapter, Wherefore host thou brought me forth out of the womb, &c? But abating that excess of his tongue and spirit, his complaints are knit up with solid arguments, and his Queries put the point resolutely, yet humbly, home to God himself: that he would be pleased to show the reason of his present dealings, and why he varied so much from what he had done in former times.