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

Thus we are to understand that of the Apostle concerning Moses, (Heb. 11.27.) He endured, as seeing him that is invisible.

We may also distinguish of this sight of God two ways; there is a sight of God first in grace, which is, though a true and real, yet an imperfect sight, of which the Apostle speaks (1 Cor. 13.12.) Now we see as in a glass, darkly. Secondly, There is a seeing of God in glory, which is there called A seeing of him face to face: Of that sight Christ speaks (Math. 5.8.) Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. As they now see him in the dispensations of his Grace here, so they shall see him in the givings forth, or manifestations of his Glory to them hereafter. Now when Job complaineth, or Elihu brings him in complaining, That he should not see God, we are not to understand it, as if he despaired of ever seeing God in Glory, or had concluded in his own breast, that he should never see him in his ways of Grace, or professed that at present he had no sight at all of God by faith; for, though I conceive Jobs sight of God by faith, or in the actings of his Grace, at that time was very low and dim, yet some sight he had of him by faith, enough I am sure to preserve and keep him from making any such negative Conclusion against himself, that he should not see God in Glory. But that which he chiefly intendeth, ⟨p. 104⟩is,¹ that he feared he should not come to see him in such a day and way of trial, as he before desired in the 23d Chapter, (vers. 8, 9.) or that God would never manifest himself so clearly in his Providences and dealings about his case in this world, as might acquit him, and b•ing the matter in question to a full state, that all might take notice of his wronged integrity. Job was under a great Cloud at that time, and feared that God had coveed himself with a Cloud also, (as the Church bemoaned her self,