Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…

Indeed, there are some Interpreters, not only Jewish, but also Christian, who, to their shame we may speak it, are sometimes as bad as the Jewish, that go to fix a Signification of mere Temporal Benefits, on that Expectation of Job, which we are here Entertained withal. But it is from Ignorance of Antiquity, to say no worse of it, that such Interpreters, go to rob us, of the Evangelical Mysteries, in these ancient Oracles of God. And we know they do directly contradict the plain Expressions of Job. whom we find every where utterly Despairing of ever being Restored unto ⟨p. 146⟩to the Temporal Benefits of his Family in this world any more. They would Rob our Job, it seems, of his Faith too; worse Robbers then the Sabaeans and Chaldeans, who only plundered him of his Cattle. No, It was long ago, the just Admiration of Jerome, That Job long before the coming of the Messiah, spoke as clearly of Him, as they that Lived after His Coming. Holy Job was no Stranger to that Illustrious promise, Gen. 3. 15. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head. And he understood, That God would one Day be Manifest in Flesh, for the Redemption, of Sinful man, from the wretchedness that Sin had brought upon him. Of this Redeemer, well might he say, He Lives! Our Lord-Messiah, as He was God, was Then Living, and is the Ever-living; The Eternal God head of our Lord-Redeemer is asserted in saying, He Lives! and when in the Fullness of Time, He should become Incarnate, the Life He was then to have, might on many accounts be long before mentioned in the present Tense. Yea, it may be rendered, He is Life. An Intimation, He bestows Life upon us, and a Resurrection from the Dead unto Everlasting ⟨p. 147⟩Life, in His Redeeming of us. A Sense of this, is here proclaimed by our Job, not only to clear himself under Aspersion, but also to cheer himself under Affliction. And now Let us have it, while we hear this.

Indeed, there are some Interpreters, not only Jewish, but also Christian, who, to their shame we may speak it, are sometimes as bad as the Jewish, that go to fix a Signification of meer Temporal Benefits, on that Expectation of Job, which we are here Entertained withal. But it is from Ignorance of Antiquity, to say no worse of it, that such Interpreters, go to rob us, of the Evangelical Mysteries, in these ancient Oracles of God. And we know they do directly contradict the plain Expressions of Job. whom we find every where utterly Despairing of ever being Restored unto