1. Of Good Men: Heman I insisted in afore, and acquainted you with his Complaints as sad as Man can utter: I reserved that of Job, specially for this Place, as I then professed. All the while that he had but Afflictions common to Men; and although he was every way surrounded with them, as being visited with a loathsome Disease, his Body filled with Dolours and Pains, his Children lost, Servants destroyed by Fire from Heaven; his Estate quite gone unto an Extremity of Poverty; his Wife abhorring his Breath, and tempting him to Blasphemy: All this while the Text tells us Chap. 2. 10. That in all this did not Job sin with his Lips, but was quiet and patient, as the Holy Ghost in the New Testament takes notice of him, Jam. 5. You have heard of the Patience of Job. Well, but God himself in the end came in upon him with his immediate Wrath. And now will you hear of his Impatience too? He was not pricked ⟨p. 179⟩to the quick till now. But then he begins to Curse the day of his Birth, Chap. 3. 1, 2, 3. and at that rate talks all along that Chapter. For brevity let us only consult, his Lamentations in Chap. 6. ver. 2, 3, 4. Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my Calamity laid in the Balances together, for now it would be heavier than the Sand, therefore my words are swallowed up. The rest that follows, I shall add by and by. What was it caused this sudden out-cry and alteration in Job's Spirit, from that still and sedate frame we left him in before? What was it the thoughts of his lost Estate, Children, Wife's unkindness, or the Pains of his Bones and Body, &c. or his downfall from a petty Kingdom? Did these begin now at length so sadly to return upon him, so as in the end, his Spirit should begin to take them in, and lay them at length to Heart, which at first he in an holy Gallantry had made so light of? Oh no, he had fully concocted and digested all that had been occasioned from all or any of these, and had quieted himself with one or two good Cordials, namely, that the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken, and blessed be the Name of the Lord, Chap. 1. 21. And again, shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord and not evil? ⟨p. 180⟩Chap. 2. 10. which had carried away all that Sorrow might have been stirring in him from these. What might be the matter then, that was the cause of these so high disturbances? The next Words ver. 4.
1. Of Good Men: Heman I insisted in afore, and acquainted you with his Complaints as sad as Man can utter: I reserved that of Job, specially for this Place, as I then professed. All the while that he had but Afflictions common to Men; and although he was every way surrounded with them, as being visited with a loathsom Disease, his Body fill'd with Dolours and Pains, his Children lost, Servants destroyed by Fire from Heaven; his Estate quite gone unto an Extremity of Poverty; his Wife abhorring his Breath, and tempting him to Blasphemy: All this while the Text tells us Chap. 2. 10. That in all this did not Job sin with his Lips, but was quiet and patient, as the Holy Ghost in the New Testament takes notice of him, Jam. 5. You have heard of the Patience of Job. Well, but God himself in the end came in upon him with his immediate Wrath. And now will you hear of his Impatience too? He was not prickt ⟨p. 179⟩to the quick till now. But then he begins to Curse the day of his Birth, Chap. 3. 1, 2, 3. and at that rate talks all along that Chapter. For brevity let us only consult, his Lamentations in Chap. 6. ver. 2, 3, 4. Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my Calamity laid in the Ballances together, for now it would be heavier than the Sand, therefore my words are swallowed up. The rest that follows, I shall add by and by. What was it caused this sudden out-cry and alteration in Job's Spirit, from that still and sedate frame we left him in before? What was it the thoughts of his lost Estate, Children, Wife's unkindness, or the Pains of his Bones and Body, &c. or his downfal from a petty Kingdom? Did these begin now at length so sadly to return upon him, so as in the end, his Spirit should begin to take them in, and lay them at length to Heart, which at first he in an holy Gallantry had made so light of? Oh no, he had fully concocted and digested all that had been occasioned from all or any of these, and had quieted himself with one or two good Cordials, namely, that the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken, and blessed be the Name of the Lord, Chap. 1. 21. And again, shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord and not evil? ⟨p. 180⟩Chap. 2. 10. which had carried away all that Sorrow might have been stirring in him from these. What might be the matter then, that was the cause of these so high disturbances? The next Words ver. 4.
