An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

If a Job do like wicked men, he shall smart like the wicked. Though God will not cast any of his servants to hell for ever, yet they may be cast into a temporary hell. The Lord told David as much, in case his Children should disobey him, and break covenant with him, though he would not cast them off, yet they should pay dearly for it; He would visit their transgressions with a r•d, and their iniquities with stripes, (Psal. 89.32.) The History of Davids children makes good that Prophecy, and so hath the dealings of God with believers in all ages, who are the seed, the children of David mystical, that is, of Christ, whom and whose spiritual children the Spirit of God chiefly pointed at in that Psalm. They that do like evil men, shall suffer like evil men. Justice and Judgment properly and strictly take hold of the wicked and disobedient only, as the Apostle saith (1 Tim. 1.9.) The Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, &c. Yet when they that are righteous are found doing like the lawless and disobedient, the Law, that is Justice and Judgment will take hold of them.¹

If a Job do like wicked men, he shall smart like the wicked. Though God will not cast any of his servants to hell for ever, yet they may be cast into a temporary hell. The Lord told David as much, in case his Children should disobey him, and break covenant with him, though he would not cast them off, yet they should pay dearly for it; He would visit their transgressions with a r•d, and their iniquities with stripes, (Psal. 89.32.) The History of Davids children makes good that Prophesie, and so hath the dealings of God with believers in all ages, who are the seed, the children of David mystical, that is, of Christ, whom and whose spiritual children the Spirit of God chiefly pointed at in that Psalm. They that do like evil men, shall suffer like evil men. Justice and Judgment properly and strictly take hold of the wicked and disobedient only, as the Apostle saith (1 Tim. 1.9.) The Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, &c. Yet when they that are righteous are found doing like the lawless and disobedient, the Law, that is Justice and Judgment will take hold of them.