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…

Before he advised him to enquire of the former age, here, To search their fathers; as if he had said, Do not confine thy self to the immediately fore-passed times, but go as high as thou canst: The former age (as was touched upon that passage) may include all times past: but here to avoid all mistakes, he gives it in expressly. The fathers of the former age, are the fathers of every age. All that have lived before us, come under the relation of our fathers. The fathers were dead, but they lived in their monuments and works: these he must search, so far as any mark or remembrance of them could be found. Hence observe,

Before he advised him to enquire of the former age, here, To search their fathers; as if he had said, Do not confine thy self to the immediately fore-passed times, but go as high as thou canst: The former age (as was touched upon that passage) may include all times past: but here to avoid all mistakes, he gives it in expresly. The fathers of the former age, are the fathers of every age. All that have lived before us, come under the relation of our fathers. The fathers were dead, but they lived in their monuments and works: these he must search, so farre as any mark or remembrance of them could be found. Hence observe,

First, That as it is a duty in all, so it was a custom in ancient times, carefully to record the dealings of God with them, for the use of ensuing generations.

First, That as it is a duty in all, so it was a custome in ancient times, carefully to record the dealings of God with them, for the use of ensuing generations.

To what end should Job search, if nothing were to be found; The Jews were commanded to remember the works of God for their learning after the word was written,