ſhip, and do not provoke Him further by thy falſe and wicked Specches of Him, or by thy froward carriage to Him; And whereas thou arr tull of unquictneſsandrage againſt God,learn to poſſeſs thy Soul in Patience, give over murmuring againſt him, and get a compoſed, and quiet, and ſubmiſſive Mind and Heart;which is cal- led Peace, Judg, 6.23. &19, 20. 1/2. 57. 21. Thus far is the Command e. By followin theſe Counſels. d "Thou ſhal be freed from all thy Columitice _ enjoy all the hippineſs which thy. heart can deſire,
22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth e, and lay up his words in thine heart f. e Take the Law and Rule whereby thou governeſt thy thoughts,
' and words, aad wiole life, notfrom profane Heathens, whoſe Opi-
nion concerning God's Providence thou haſt embraced, nor from thy own vain imaginations or violent Paſſions, which have led thee into thy preſent Errors and Miſcarriages, but from God, and from his Word, and from his Law, which 1s written in thy own Mind, and from the DoCtrines and Inſtruttions of the holy Men of God, who are all ofour mind in this matter. f7, e. Do nor only hear them with thine Ears, but let them ſink into thy Hearr, being re- ceived there by hearty affetion, and fixed by ſerious, and frequent, and praQtical conſideration cf them, Pſalm 115, 11, Math. 13. 9, &C. Luke 2.19, STIs | ;
23 * If thou return to the Almighty-g, thouſbalt be built up 5; thou ſhalr put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles z.
£ Or, home to the Almighty ; or, ſe as to reach tothe Almighty and be joyned to him. The Hebrew Phraſe is extraordinary, and empha« tical,andimplies a thorough and effeQual rurning not only from Sin, ( which an Hypocrite may do in great part, at leaf for a time, u- pon carnal Motives, and without any reſpe& or love to God ) but alſo unto God, fo as to love Him, and cleave to Him,and ſincerely devote a Man's ſelf to his fear and ſervice. And he exprefſeth it in this manner, becauſe he thought Job to be an Hypocrite, and there- fore counſelleth him toturn to God in another and better manner than he had done ; to wit, with all his heart, and not feignedly. hþ God who hath pulled thee down in tiy Eſtate, and Honour,an Children, will repair thy Ruines, and give thee more Children, which is oft called bu:Iiing; as Gen. 16. 2. Exod. 1. 21. Ruth 4. 11. and bleſs thee with Proſperity and Happincfs, as building ſignifies, Jer. 42. 10. & 31. 4 7 This may be eithcr 1. a Condition upon which God makes the following Promiſes, Tf (-which Particle may be repeated out of the former part ofthe Verſe ) rho ſhalt put away, &c. 7. e. If thou Galt effe&ually purge thy ſelf and Family from all fin, and keep thy ſelf and them, as far as thou cant from all ap- pearances and occaſions of fin, which is the duty of all, and the praQtice of true Penirents. Whereby he ſeems to 'refle& upon Jes,
or Children, notwithitinding his facrificing for them, Chap, 1. Or, rather 2. A Proimife, becauſe the conditions required had been expreſſed togetier, v. 21. 22. and in the beginning of this Verſe, after which he comes to the Promiſes, and begins with this, Th ſhalt be built up, and ſo proceeds to other Promiſes ; and therefore it ſeems not probable that he ſhould return to the Conditions again,
and mix the Conditions and Promiſes together, which he hath {o carefully ſeparated in theſe Verſes» And fo it is either 1. a Spt- ritual Promiſe, If thou doſt ffacerely repent, God will give thee more: Grace efietually to reform thy ſelf and family, according
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Chap- XX11L to that rule, 7s him that hath, ſhall be given. Or, 2. 2 temporal Pro- miſe, Thou ſhalt put away iniquity or injury, or perverſneſs ( 1: e. either
cryerſe and injurious Men: Or, God's Judgments, or the puniſh. ments of thy {ins z as Iniquity is very oft z. e. from all thy Dwellings and Tents, avd Poſſeffions ; no hand of violence ſhall come near them, no evil Plague ſhall come upon thy own Hahitation, or upon the Habitations of thy Children, as lately it
did for thine and their fins, 24 Then ſhalt thou lay up gold k || as duft 7, and
[Or,n 29k the gold of Ophir Þ as the ſtones mz of the brook. duſts þ S-lid or choice Gold, as the Word fignifies. { 1, e. In great a- f Hed. My poundance, Or, upon the duſt, or ground : It ſhall be fo plentitul, and or #MNg therefore vile. that thou ſhalt not lock it up in Cheſts and Treaſu- the Fones, ries, hut tcatter it any where, and let it lie even upon the ground. m As plentiſully as if the pieces of God were but ſo many Pebble Stones, which are to be found in and near every Brook, Or, for the Stones; ine. in ſtead of them, Or, in the rach, or among the rocks : Gold ſhail heſo aboundant that thou mayeſt lay it any where, e-» ven upon or among the rocks,
25 Yea, the Almighty ſhalllbe thy [| defence », and
thou fhatc have # plenty of filver 0. _ n God by his ſpecial and watchfull Providence ſhall prote& thee
from all dangersand calarnities: Heb, thy defences, or munttions. One God ſhall keep thee asſafely as many Munitions, oHeb.ſilver of ſtrength 7. e: which by God's Bleffiny thall be thy Defence, Eccleſ; 7: 12: Or, ſilver of heights, i. e: high and heaped up like a Mountain:
26 For þ then thou ſhalt have thy delight in the Al-
mighty q and ſhalt * lift up thy face unto God 7,