An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Which gives us a second Observation.

Ordinary truths will not serve in extraordinary cases, and that which every man knows and hears, will not resolve us in those points which few men know or hear: As Jobs Person was a Phoenix in the World, his age afforded not his second, There is none like him in the earth, saith God himself to Satan (Chap. 1.8.) So Jobs condition was a Phoenix, it had no second; there was no man tried like him in the whole earth; and therefore his case eould not be measured by the common Standard, or rule of Providence. He had need hear that which was never heard before, who bears and feels that which was never borne nor felt before. There are some temptations on afflictions, as the Apostle speaks (1 Cor. 10.13.) Which are common to man: Common truths may comfort and satisfy the consciences of such. But there are temptations (such were Jobs) which are not common to man, we can hardly find their parallel, or a president of them in the Records of any Age: Common truths will not comfort, nor satisfy the consciences of such. Every dispensation hath a doctrine suitable to it; dispensations which are seldom seen call up doctrines which are seldom heard.

Ordinary truths will not serve in extraordinary cases, and that which every man knows and heares, will not resolve us in those points which few men know or heare: As Jobs Person was a Phaenix in the World, his age afforded not his second, There is none like him in the earth, saith God himselfe to Satan (Chap. 1.8.) So Jobs condition was a Phaenix, it had no second; there was no man tryed like him in the whole earth; and therefore his case eould not be measured by the common Standard, or rule of Providence. He had need heare that which was never heard before, who beares and feeles that which was never borne nor felt before. There are some temptations on afflictions, as the Apostle speakes (1 Cor. 10.13.) Which are common to man: Common truths may comfort and satisfie the consciences of such. But there are temptations (such were Jobs) which are not common to man, we can hardly finde their paralell, or a president of them in the Records of any Age: Common truths will not comfort, nor satisfie the consciences of such. Every dispensation hath a doctrine suitable to it; dispensations which are seldome seen call up doctrines which are seldome heard.