[0r, ter TY Wake thy - Mis body 48d therefore many words are to be underſtood in ſome places, to be detroy- corr pleat the ſenſe : The meaning of the place is this z Thovgh my ed 2+ ys Skin 15 now in a great meaſure covſumed by Sores, and the reſt of it, f my fp together with this Body, ſhall be devoured by the Worms which LIſce may ſeem to m ke my Caſe quite deſperate, Heb. And though (which
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Reaſon why thev could not underſtand this Text thus, becauſe oh believed that Jobin his Agonies did deny God's Providence, and conſequently the ReſurreRion and the future Judgment, which though it was a moſt uncharitable and falſe Opinion,yet forced them to 1nter- pret this Text another way, ObjeF, 2, fow1s If credible that Job, in thoſe ancient times, and in that dark Stateof the Church, fhould know theſe great Myſteries of Chriſt's Incarnation, and of the Refur- re&ion and Life to come? Arſwe 27, The Myſtery of Chriſt's Incar nation was reveal:d to Adam by that firſt and famous Promiſe, that the ſeed of the wenan ſhould break, the Serpent s head, Gen: 3: 15; which being the only Foundation of all his Hopes, for the Recovery and Saivation of himſelf and of all his Poſterity, he would doubtlets carefully and diligently teach and explain it, as peed required, to thoſe that deſcended from him. 2. That the ancient Patriarc''s and Prophets were generally acquainted with theſe DoQrines, is undeniad- ly evident from Heb: 11: and x Fet: 8: 9, 10, Il, 12. 3. Particu» larly Abraham, from whom Job is ſuppoſed to have deſcended 3 had the Promiſe made to him, that Chriſt ſhould come out of his Loins, Gen: 12;.3: and is ſaid to have ſeen Chriſt's day, and rejyce to ſee 7t, John 8: $6, and had his Hopes and Deſires fixed upon a divine and heavenly City and Country, Heb: 11: 10, 16. And as Abraham knew 2nd believed theſe things himſelf, ſo it is manifeſt that he taught them to his Children and Servants, Gen: 18: 19: andto his Kindred and others, as he had occaſion: ,And therefore it cannot ſeem ſtrange, that Job profeſſcth his Faith and Hope in theſe things, m Iam a dy* ing Man, and my Hopes are dying, but he liveth, and that for ever 3 and therefore though I die, yet he both can and will make metc live 224in in due time, though notin this World, yet in the other, which is much better; and though I am now highly cenſured and condemn- ed by my Friends and others, as a great Difſembler and a ſecret Sinner, whom God's Hand hath found out ; yet there 15 a day coming where- in my Cauſe ſhall be pleaded, and my Name and Honour vindicated from all theſe Reproaches, and my Integrity brought to light. n I am falling and dying, but he ſhall ſtand firm, and unmoveable, and viRtorious, in full Power and Anthorlty : All which th's word ſtand ſignifies; and therefore he 1s 2ble to make me ſtand in Judg- ment, and to maintain my Cauſe againſt all Oppoſers. Or, he ſhall ariſe, as this Verb moft commonly ſignifies; 7: e. Either 1, he thall exiſt or be born, asthis word is oft uſed 3 as Namb: 32: 14: Deus: 29; 22; J-dges 2: 10; 1 Kings 3: 12. Mat:11, 11; And 1t notes Chriſt's 1n- carnation, thatalthough as he was God, he was now and from ail E- ternity in beeing, yet he ſhould indue time be made Man, | and be born of a Woman. Or 2. he ſhall ariſe out ofthe Duft z which had been more probable, if it had been in the Text from or out of, as now it is upon, theearth or duſt 3 for Chriſt's ReſurreQtion from the Dead, might be firly mentioned here as the Cauſe of Job's Reſurre&ion, which followeth. » Either y. in the days of the Meffiah or of the Goſpel, which are oft called the latter or laſt days or times; as I/a 2: 2: Hoſt 3:5: Joel: 2; 28. Compared with As 2: 17: x Tim: q* 1: and 2 Tim: 3:1. Heb: 1 1. Or rather 2. at the day of the general ReſurreQi- on and Judgment, which, as thoſe Holy Patriarchs well knew and firmly believed, was to be 4t the end of the World; and which is called the laſt day, John 6. 40, 44, 54: and 1: 24 and 12: 48; x Pet: 1: 5, For this was the time when Job's Reſurreftion, of
which he ſpeaketh here, was to be. Hebs at the /aft : By which word he plainly intimate:, that this hope wa: not of things preſent and of
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dred, s Heb. Out of my feſb, or with ( 25 the Particle Mev is uſed,
Cant: I: 2. and 3: $: i/e: 57: 82 _) my fleſh, i. e: with exes of fleſh, as Job himſelf calls them Chap: 10: 44 Or with bodily eyes 5 my ticſh or Body being raiſed from the Grare, and reſtored and re-uvited to my Soul. And this is very fitly added, to ſhew that he did not ſpeak of. mental or ſpiritual, but of a corporeal Viſion, and that after his deaths # The ſame whom he called his Reaeemer, v: 25; i:e. Chrift 5 of which
| ſce the Note there, who being God-man, and having taken fleſh, and appearing in his fleſh or body with and for Job upon the Earth, as was ſaid v: 25: might very well be ſcen with his bodily eyes. Nor is this underſtood of a ſimple ſeeing of him ; for ſo even they that pierced
him ſhailſee him, Rev, 4: 7: but oft ſeeing him with delight and com-
fort, as that word is oft underſtood, as Gen 48; 11: Job: 42. a6: Pal.
128. 5: 1/a: 53-11,0f that glorious and beatifyi:'g Viſion of God, which
Is promiſed to all God's People, Pſal: 16: 11: and 17: 15; Matth:' 5;
8: 1 Cor: 13: 12; 1 John gi 2,
27 WhomT ſball ſee « for my ſelf x, and mine eyes
conſumed + within me z.
For my own comfort and benefit, as that Phraſe is oft uſed. Or, which 15 much of the ſameimportance, on my behalf; to plead my cauſe, and vindicate me from all your Reproaches. y To wit, for me or in my ſtead. I ſhall not ſee God by anothers eyes, but by my own, and by theſe ſelf ſame eyes in this ſame body which now I have. Heb. Not « ſtranger ; 1.e- This priviledge fhall be granted to me and to all other ſincereServants of Ged, but not to Frangers, i: e: to wicked men, who are oft called flrangers ; a Pſal: 18: 44, 45: and 54: 3: Prov: 21: 8:
becauſe they are eſtranged or alienated from God, and from his Ser- vice ard People And if I were ſuch an one, as you ſuppoſe me to
be, I could never hope to enjoy that happineſs. 2x This I do confident- ly expect and hope for, though at preſent my Cafe ſecms deſperate, my very inward parts being even conſumed with | Hard 3 and though,
as T have ſaid, the Graveand the Worms will conſume my whole Body, not excepting the Reins which ſecm to be ſafeſt and furtheſt out 'of their reach. Or, without though, which is not in the Hebrew, My