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

TO THE Christian Reader TO Those Especially of this CITY who have been THE PROMOTERS Of this WORK.

SIRS,

Having, in the Prefatory Epistle to the former part set forth the state of these three Chapters here presented and expounded, together with the general scope of Elihu (the speaker) in them; be pleased to look back thither for some help towards your satisfaction in those points. All that I shall entertain you with in this Address, is only ⟨image 3⟩to tell you, that, as I have now, through the good hand of God with me, finished my promised Commentary upon the whole Discourse of Elihu with Job, divided into a Preface and four distinct Speeches, contained and continued in six entire Chapters; so, I purpose, through the same assistance, to proceed (with convenient speed) in drawing up and sending out (in one Volume more) my slender apprehensions and meditations upon the remaining five Chapters of this Book: In which it will appear, how (when Elihu (doubtless with good success) had acted the part of a wise and learned Moderator, in that grand Controversy of Providence between Job and his three Friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, and had done both with him and them, it will appear, I say, how) God himself was pleased to come forth and undertake the matter in differen•e, giving, as the Supreme Moderator of that Noble Disputation, an unerring and an irrefraga•le Determination of it, to the full conviction, and in the issue, to the full consolation of Job, as also to the high content of of all that heard it, even of his three Friends; who, though they were severely reproved and censured by God, as having over-severely reproved ⟨image 3⟩