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…

That is, thou dost not punish or afflict me in an ordinary way. Marvels are not every days work. Thou takest a new, a strange course to try me: such afflictions as mine have no parallel, such have scarce been heard of, or recorded in the history of any age. Who hath heard of such a thing as this? thou seemest to design me for a president to posterity,¹ or to show in my example what thou canst do upon a creature, Thou showest thy self marvellous upon me. As Moses speaks concerning Korah, Dathan and Abiram, when they murmured, and mutinied against him, and against Aaron, If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me; but if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, then, &c. The Lord to manifest his extreme displeasure against those mutineers, did (as it were) devise a new kind of death for them, If these men die the common or the ordinary death of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me; These men have given a new example of sin, and surely God will make them a new example of punishment. Job speaks the same sense, Thou showest thy self marvellous upon me; thou wilt not be satisfied in afflicting me after the rate or measure of other men; All the Saints should do some singular thing, and many of them suffer some singular thing. The Apostle assures his Corinthians (1 Cor. 10.13.) There hath no temptation taken you, but that which is common to man. Job seems to speak the contrary. A temptation hath taken me, which is not common to man.

That is, thou dost not punish or afflict me in an ordinary way. Marvels are not every daies work. Thou takest a new, a strange course to try me: such afflictions as mine have no parallel, such have scarce been heard of, or recorded in the history of any age. Who hath heard of such a thing as this? thou seemest to design me for a president to posterity,¹ or to shew in my example what thou canst do upon a creature, Thou shewest thy self marvellous upon me. As Moses speaks concerning Korah, Dathan and Abiram, when they murmured, and mutined against him, and against Aaron, If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me; but if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, then, &c. The Lord to manifest his extream displeasure against those mutineers, did (as it were) devise a new kinde of death for them, If these men die the common or the ordinary death of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me; These men have given a new example of sinne, and surely God will make them a new example of punishment. Iob speaks the same sense, Thou shewest thy self marvellous upon me; thou wilt not be satisfied in afflicting me after the rate or measure of other men; All the Saints should do some singular thing, and many of them suffer some singular thing. The Apostle assures his Corinthians (