Exposition of Job 35-37

113

Providential care of God towards his people is perpetual. 206. Some works of Providence very plain. 357. The P • ovidence of God reacheth to all places. 453. The Government of the world is as much of God as the creati • n of it. 536. Heathens dark about P • ovidence, ascribed all to Fortune and second Causes. 536, 537. Comfort to the godly that all things are under the P • ovidence of God. 537

Q
• Question, one question put more than twenty times to J • b, and why 535
• Q • ietness of the Air, much more of men's Hearts, is of God. 562. Christ can make the heart quiet in the midst of all outward u • quietness. 563

R
• Rain, fi • e things spoken of it. 384, 385. Rain comes fi • st from the earth 388. The causes of Rain. 389. God can with-hold the Rain when he pleaseth 389. Four Inferences from it 90, 39 • . That the water falls from Heaven in drops of R • in is of God. 393. God hath store of Rain in his treasury. 397. R • in, a comparison between that • nd the Word of God. 397, 398. R • i • s • all and great 471. Great Rain of God's strength, what. 471. In what quantity soever the Rain falls, it is by the special appointment of God. 475. For what purposes Rain is sent. 519. Rain undeserved, 'tis of free mercy that we have Rain. 520
• Rain-bow, the signification of it. 542, 543. The form and cause of it. 543. Why expressed in the Greek by a word that signifieth to speak or show forth. 544. Whether the Rain-bow were before the fl •• d. 544, 545. The fitness of the Rain bow to assure mercy, shown in seven particulars. 545, 546
• Ransom, what it is, several sorts of it. Nothing but the blood of Christ can ransom sinners, nor will that deliver some sinners. 304
• Remember, taken two ways. 349
• Reward and punishment, without them Religion would vanish. 14
• Riches, God regardeth not men for their riches or any outward greatness. 306 309
• Right, how God gives it the poor. 195
• Righteous, man righteous three ways. 39. A twofold notion of the righteous. 21. The Righteous always under God's eye. 202, 203. Righteous highly esteemed and exalted by God. 213
• Righteousness essential to God. 11 Righteousness of two sorts. 8, 9. The righteousness or righteous actings of men contribute nothing to God. 41. Three grounds of it. 42, 43. How and whom righteousness doth profit. 51, 52. Cautions about it. 53. Righteousness, when and how ascribed to God. 147
• Rods of two sorts. 514.

S
• Scholars great, not always the wisest men. 177
• Scourge, God can make any creature a scourge to man. 412
• Sealing in Scripture hath a threefold signification. 476. Sealing up of the hand, what it signifieth. 478
• September, how expressed in the Hebrew, and why. 448
• Servant, what it signifies, every believer a Servant. 238
• Service and Worship often the same in Scripture. 237. God expects our se • vice, and then especially, when we suffer under his hand. 237. To serve God what, or the service of God described. 238, 239. To se • ve God our Freed • m. 240. Service of God pleasant and easy in a twofold respect. 240. Service of God not lean but pr • fitable. 240, 241
• Sight of God twofold, immediate, mediate, and that by a threefold means. 102. The sight of God, or his discovery of himself to us very sweet to the the soul. 104
• Signs of changes in the weather, and other natural things. 424. Inferences from it as to other th • ngs. 424 Signs why given by God. 549
• Sin, how sinful it is to say, there is no profit in leaving sin. 17. The benefit or profit of leaving sin. 19. God receives no hurt or damage by the sin of man, how many or how great soever his sins are. 31. Yet sinners shall be dealt with as if they had hurt him, and why. 31. How the sins both of good and evil men turn to the glory of God. 32. Sin considered in a threefold opposition. 33. Sin d • th six things to God, yet cleared how no damage to him. 34, 35, 36. The least sin hurtful. 47, 48. Sin hurts the whole Creation, but chiefly man. 48, 49. The sad effects of sin, as well as the filthy nature of it, should move us to avoid it. 48. Sin hurts others, but th • se most who commit it. 49. Sin is v • cal. 92. God doth not severely mark the sins of his people. 116. Sin, man's work. 224. God doth not suffer sin to grow potent in his people. 226. There is an excessiveness in some sins. 227. In what sense sin may reign in a righteous man. 228. Sin may be seen and not the exceedingness of it. 228. The exceed • ngness of sin shown in three things. 228, 2 • 9. Sin a vain thing, how. 234. God will not indulge sin in any. 293. Sin should have no respect. 321. Sin not to be chosen in any case. 324. Sin strictly taken cannot be chosen. 325. Upon what accounts sin is chosen by many. 325, 326. They make a very bad choice who choose sin rather than affliction. 372. Sin worse than any the worst affliction. 330, 331
• Singing, an act of Praise. 352
• Sky, two things considerable in it, clearness and strength. 568. How the sky may be said to be strong. 569
• Snow, what it is. 469. When it usually falleth, 469. Six things wonderful concerning the Snow. 472. Snow how like w • ol, shown in three things. 472, 473. Sno • and Rain at the command of God. 474
• Sodomites, how expressed in the Hebrew. 271
• Song in the night, what. 70, 71, 73
• Sovereignty of God over all creatures, three Inferences from it. 14, 20
• Soul, how taken in Scripture. 268
• South, why expressed by a word that signifies a secret place. 487. Whirlwinds come from it. 488
• Sparing mercy, God will not spare his own if they obey not. 252
• Speaking, two things of great use in it. 139. Speaking of two sorts. 232, 233
• Spirits of men weighed • y God. 552
• Standing-still twofold, that of the mind to what opposed. 527
• Stargazers, their vanity. 27
• Stormes in the hearts of men allayed by God. 562
• Streight, who may be said to be in it. 282. No straight so great but God can deliver out of it. 283
• Strength of heart, wherein it consists. 175. 183. Strength of wisdom, in God twofold. 175. There is no strength against the Lord. 311
• Suddenness of divine Judgments. 300
• Sufferings did not hurt the Martyrs, and why. 51
• Sun in its brightness cannot be looked upon. 602
• Swearing, the Lord's saying as much as his swearing. 549
• Sword, how taken in Scripture. 252

T
• Tabernacle, what. 407, 408
• Teacher, God is pleased to be a Teacher of his people. 338. The teachings of God above all teachings. 339. How God exceeds all Teachers, shown in seven things. 339, 340. Three Inferences from it. 342. Several Evidences of our having been taught of God. 342, 343, 344.
• Teaching, 'It is man's shame when he acts not according to the teachings of God. 82. Teaching is to make us knowing. 576. There are two sorts of persons who call for teaching. 577
• Terribleness of God to sinners in four days. 609
• Thundering Legion. 460. Thunder a terrible thing. 436. Thunder the Voice of God. 440, 442. Thunder called the Voice of God in a twofold respect. 442. Six Inferences from it. 443. Word of God like Thunder, shown in five things. 444. Thunder God's Hera d. 454. Thunder, how it followeth L • ghtning. 454. Why we see the Lightning before we hear the Thunder. 454. Six degrees or s • rts of Thunder. 455. Thunder described. 457. Marvels in Thunder. 460. The effects of the Word like those of Thunder. 461, 462. Two Inferences from it. 464
• Tiberius the Roman Emperor, his Character. 630
• Time at the dispose of God. 379
• Trembling, what. 436. Great appearances of God should make us tremble. 437. A fourfold trembling. 437, 438
• Troubles are straits. 281, 282
• Trusting in God a Duty in darkest times. 112. T • ust in God fixes the heart. 113. Some not to be trusted. 114. We should trust God more upon experience of what he hath wrought. 365. The Eternity of God a gro • nd of trusting him. 380
• Truth will prevail though many be against it. 23. No matter if we are alone, so Truth be on our side. 23. Some speak Truth with false hearts, others speak falsely with a true heart. 153. To speak truth a high commendation of the Speaker. 154. Truth taught us by God, four effects of it. 342, 343, 344. Some Truths are specially to be attended to. 524

U
• Valentinian, his zeal and advancement. 213
• Vanity, what a • d who. 92
• Visiting of three sorts. 119
• Unde • standing, how an unde ••• an • ing man may be said not to unders • a • d. 81
• Uprightness, That which is not done uprightly, will not be done constantly. 266

W
• Waiting on God in hardest times. 112 113.
• Warnings, G • d gives them before he sends great Judgme • ts. 425, 426. Warning, God gives wa • ning before he strikes. 455
• Water of two s • rts. 388. Wa • er held up in the Air by the Power • f God. 392
• Way of God, what it is. 345
• Whirlwind, what. 489
• Wickedness, what. 47
• Wicked men out of God's Protection, he takes not care of them. 189. How God doth and doth not preserve the lives of the wicked. 189, 190. Wicked not so much preserved as reserved. 191. Wicked men of two sorts. 192. Their life sad. 192. God will at last utterly destroy them. 193. God will not be taken off by any outward respect from destroying them. 301
• Winds, four Cardinal. 487. What the Wind is. 489. Winds come at God's appointment. 489. God makes a twofold use of the Wind. 490. Six uses of it for mercy, or for the good of man. 490, 491. Winds the Broomes of Heaven. 490. Afflicting effects of the Wind. 492. Seven Wonders observable in the Winds. 493, 494. What the Wind is. 598. Causes of the Wind. 599. Life preserved by the Wind. 599. Spirit of God compared to the Wind. 601
• Wise in heart of two s • rts. 645. In what se • ce God resp • cteth not any that are wi • e. 645, 646. G d regard • th n • t the • i • est men who do not fear him. 646. The wi est men cannot hinder the C • u • sels of G • d by their wisdom and p • licy. 647. Thoughts of the wi •• va n in two respects. 648. None • ise by nature, nor are any erfectly wi • e in this world though they have grace. 649
• Wisdom, how ascribed to the Fowls of the Air. 77. The Wisdom of F • wls, &c. is of God. 78. Wisdom of God, wherein the strength of it consists. 175. How God is only wise. 177, 178. Wisdom practical, what. 177. Six Inferences from the Wisdom of God. 179, 180
• Wishes, we apt to make strange wishes in times of distress. 315
• Words, rash words turned against the Speaker. 12. Sharp words sometimes most profitable. 13. Word of God, how like Rain. 397, 398. Word of God preached, how like thunder, shown in five things. 444. When the Word of God is duly attended, shown in three things. 445 Three degrees of the Words coming to us. 445, 446. Word of God, how it may be said to be dark. 586
• Woe ks of God in Nature to be exactly considered, especially the Heavens. 26. Some works of God beyond our apprehension. 466. Two Inferences from it. 467. Men slow to consider the works of God. 480. God would have all men study his works. 480 God stops men in their work, that they may consider his works. 481 Works of God of all sorts to be considered. 529, 530. How the works of God are to be considered, shown four ways. 531. Inference from it. 532. The common and ordinary works of God are full of wonder. 533 Works, good works how profitable to ourselves and others. 52, 5 • . Work, ours shown us by God in affliction in a twofold respect. 223. Sin is properly our work. 224. The faultiness of our work most clearly discovered in affliction. 225. Works of God of all sorts are to be magnified. 351. Works of G • d visible or invisible. 353. Men apt to forget and have low apprehensions of the works of God. 356. It is our duty to magnify the works of God. 358. How they are magnified, shown five ways. 359, 360. The Ends of God in any woe k much to be eyed. 363. What those Ends are. 364, 365
• Woe • ld, a godly man is content with a little of, but not satisfied with all the world. 288
• Worldly comforts and mercies, may soon meet with a st p. 419
• Wrath of God, what and where. 296. Wrath appears in works of Judgment. 297. We should by all means beware of the wrath of God. 298. Wrath of God a fire, infinitely more dreadful than fire. 299

Y
• Years, the measure of man's Life, not of God's. 377. The word in Hebrew signifieth changes, and why. 377
• Youth, to die in youth, what, shown three ways. 269.

A TABLE OF Those Scriptures which are occasionally cleared, and briefly illustrated in the fore-going EXPOSITIONS. The First Number directs to the Chapter, the Second to the Verse, the Third to the Page of the BOOK.

Chap.	Vers.	Page.
	Genesis.
1.	6.	402.
2.	1, 2.	241.
2.	16.	418.
7.	11.	393.
9.	12, 13.	545.
15.	16.	191.
16.	14.	204.
21.	6.	119.
22.	14.	205.
25.	8.	273.
27.	33.	435.
27.	36.	459.
31.	29.	60.
37.	11.	117.
38.	26.	9.
45.	8.	360.
49.	20.	243.
	Exodus.
1.	17.	187.
4.	17.	515.
4.	43.	238.
5.	8.	200.
9.	16.	184.
14.	11.	122.
15.	11.	6 • 1.
18.	21.	109.
18.	22.	187.
20.	4, 5.	119.
32.	25.	559.
38.	8.	570.
	Leviticus.
25.	21.	519.
26.	41.	327.
	Numbers.
9.	7.	387.
14.	17.	185.
16.	45.	241.
16.	46.	297.
17.	2.	514.
23.	14.	172.
32.	23.	513.
	Deuteronomy.
4.	2.	387.
5.	24.	593.
11.	12.	205.
16.	20.	629.
19.	5.	452.
28.	23.	390.
28.	24.	392.
29.	29.	176.
31.	29.	224.
32.	15.	448.
32.	31.	4.
32.	34.	427.
33.	2.	540.
	Judges.
9.	23.	563.
	Ruth.
1.	6.	119.
2.	1.	58.
	I Samuel.
1.	6.	457.
2.	3.	175, 109.
12.	6.	64.
15.	23.	263.
22.	8.	230.
	II Samuel.
15.	31.	647.
16.	10.	360.
23.	15.	241.
24.	14.	283.
	I Kings.
2.	4.	318.
20.	28.	453.
22.	34.	45 • .
	II Kings.
3.	17.	• 91.
4.	2.	501.
	I Chron.
12.	32.	428.
16.	25.	36 • .
29.	10, 16.	42.
	II Chron.
20.	12.	282.
28.	13, 22.	261.
31.	20, 21.	616.
	Job.
9.	23.	302, 14.
10.	15.	14.
21.	7.	188.
21.	25.	243.
	Psalms.
2.	1, 2.	31.
2.	3.	221.
2.	12.	298.
7.	3.	195.
8.	3, 4.	27.
9.	9.	336.
10.	3.	173.
10.	16.	380.
11.	4.	203.
12.	5.	196.
14.	2.	649.
16.	3.	42.
16.	7.	73.
17.	3.	72.
17.	13, 14.	516.
18.	11.	408.
18.	41.	90.
25.	10.	11.
25.	11.	372.
29.	1, 2, 3, 4, &c.	461, 462
30.	4.	125.
31.	6, 7.	281.
31.	15.	379.
31.	23.	627.
32.	5.	615.
32.	7.	111.
32.	9.	83.
36.	4.	322.
36.	8.	286.
39.	5.	178.
42.	8.	72.
46.	10.	5 • 8.
49.	20.	81.
51.	3, 4.	147.
51.	4.	412.
51.	15.	183.
52.	1.	173, 60.
55.	23.	192.
5 • .	1.	484.
58.	1, 2.	630.
66.	3.	371.
66.	18.	322, 95.
68.	8, 9.	38 • .
69.	33.	268.
72.	6.	397.
73.	1.	363, 11.
73.	13.	18.
75.	6.	605.
77.	6.	72.
77.	19.	616.
78.	8, 32.	365.
80.	1.	541.
81.	11.	331.
81.	16.	287.
84.	11.	189.
90.	11.	127, 185, 298.
92.	6.	353.
99.	12.	339.
102.	14.	31 • .
102.	17.	96.
10 • .	25, • 6.	377.
103.	10.	116.
104.	34, 35.	104.
106.	7.	12 • .
107.	42.	9 • . 13.
111.	2, 7.	32.
111.	2, 4.	358.
115.	3.	161.
116.	12.	43.
126.	4.	249, 488.
130.	3.	117.
136.	2.	511.
138.	6.	90.
146.	3, 4.	380.
147.	15, 16.	472.
147.	18.	499.
150.	2.	369.
	Proverbs.
1.	32.	625.
6.	6.	83.
6.	12, 13.	203.
10.	22.	285.
15.	29.	89.
16.	2.	552.
16.	3.	18 • .
• 0.	12.	231.
21.	18.	302
21.	17.	244.
21.	27.	229, 258.
21.	3 • .	179.
22.	3.	427.
25.	13.	470.
25.	23.	491.
25.	27.	592
26.	1.	469.
28.	3.	59.
30.	4	40 • .
31.	31.	356.
	Ecclesiastes.
1.	6.	505.
2.	14.	428.
8.	11.	626.
12.	2.	470.
12.	10.	588.
	Canticle • .
2.	14	96.
3.	1.	73.
4.	9.	210.
4.	12.	477.
4.	16.	491.
	Isaiah.
1.	2.	83.
1.	3.	529.
1.	15.	90.
1.	31.	211.
1.	25, 26, 27.	623.
3.	11.	193.
4.	4.	6 • 3.
5.	6.	389.
5.	13.	255.
5.	20.	325.
6.	2.	374.
8.	2 • .	6.
8.	16.	476.
9.	13.	235.
10.	6.	190.
10.	3.	609.
10.	25.	1 • 8.
14.	27.	163.
17.	13.	4 • 2.
21.	1.	488.
25.	6.	2 • 6.
26.	7.	551.
26.	11.	532.
27.	4, 5.	172, 18 • .
27.	7, 8, 9.	632.
27.	11.	628.
28.	7.	5 • 1.
28.	10, 11.	138.
28.	22.	2 1.
28.	26, 29.	179.
30.	18.	114.
30.	20.	6 3.
30.	30.	57.
30.	33.	281.
32.	4.	34 • .
33.	16.	337.
36.	18.	297.
38.	11.	10 • .
40.	28.	163.
41.	23.	1 • 6.
42.	18.	25.
43.	3.	303.
43.	4.	172.
44.	25.	647.
45.	14.	220.
45.	19.	97.
48.	17.	341.
49.	16.	207.
50.	11.	106.
53.	1.	57.
54.	7.	12 • .
54.	9.	548.
55.	10, 11.	397.
59.	16.	162, 619.
62.	6.	357.
63.	3.	162.
65.	20.	270.
66.	1.	212.
66.	2.	195.
	Jeremiah.
3.	5.	6 • .
5.	1.	627.
5.	25.	423.
5.	26.	27.
6.	6.	58.
7.	16.	419.
8.	6, 7, 8.	84, 427, 485.
1 • .	23.	4 • 0.
10.	24.	622.
17.	13.	6 • 9.
• 3.	23.	4 • 3.
29.	6.	205.
32.	32.	642.
48.	11.	88.
	Lam • ntations.
1.	12.	25.
3.	33, 34	151, 268.
	Ezekiel.
• .	7.	59.
4.	16.	414.
7.	2.	450.
18.	25.	362.
22.	6.	60.
29.	20.	190.
36.	20.	34.
	Daniel.
3.	29.	276.
5.	2 • .	551.
7.	2.	494.
9.	24.	477.
11.	6.	57.
	Hosea.
2.	8.	127.
4.	18.	40.
5.	14.	267.
7.	9.	130.
7.	14.	87, 265.
12.	7.	58.
13.	1.	439.
	Joel.
3.	18.	387.
	Amos.
7.	2.	466.
8.	9, 11.	4 •• .
	Micah.
3.	6, 7.	422.
7.	18.	125.
	Nahum.
1.	3.	184, 492.
1.	4.	182.
	Habakkuk.
1.	10.	310.
2.	3.	301.
3.	8.	182.
	Zephaniah.
2.	1, 2.	459.
3.	12.	197.
	Haggai.
1.	6, 9.	560.
	Zacharias.
3.	9.	209.
4.	7.	371, 551.
4.	12.	604.
8.	19.	155.
9.	14.	488.
	Malachi.
1.	3.	217.
1.	6.	641.
1.	14.	263.
2.	17.	624.
3.	2.	486.
	Matthew.
3.	17.	456.
7.	29.	341.
10.	42.	53.
11.	19.	7.
11.	30.	636.
16.	1, • , 3.	424.
20.	28.	3 • 3.
23.	23.	621.
23.	37.	484.
24.	12.	498.
24.	31.	450.
	Luke.
1.	6.	39.
1.	68.	119.
12.	19.	242.
18.	2.	173.
18.	14.	8.
21.	25, 26.	642.
21.	34.	244.
	John.
3.	8.	601.
6.	44, 45.	342.
8.	36.	303.
9.	4.	313.
9.	31.	90.
9.	40.	25.
12.	28, 29.	456.
12.	31.	623.
	Acts.
1.	7.	539.
1.	25.	272.
4.	19.	4.
9.	1.	118.
17.	25.	42.
17.	30.	117.
	Romans.
1.	18.	296.
1.	19, 20.	28.
1.	26.	331.
1.	28.	6.
2.	14, 15.	5.
2.	24.	34.
3.	4.	147.
3.	8.	326.
5.	7, 8.	302.
7.	1.	538.
8.	26.	94.
9.	20.	13
9.	22.	18 • .
11.	17.	286.
12.	1.	36 • .
16.	27.	177.
	I Corinthians.
2.	14.	405.
3.	19.	648.
10.	14, 15.	4.
10.	22.	168.
11.	31, 32.	412.
13.	12.	103.
15.	54.	591.
	II. Corinthians.
2.	5.	591.
2.	17.	154.
4.	6.	103.
4.	17.	344, 223.
5.	11.	104
5.	10.	610.
5.	4.	591.
7.	9.	20.
9.	8.	166.
10.	4.	310.
12.	2, 3.	156.
13.	8.	155.
	Ephesians.
2.	3.	260.
3.	8.	617.
3.	19.	467.
3.	20.	165.
	Philippians.
1.	23.	283.
4.	6.	246.
	Colossians.
1.	16.	212.
1.	21.	257.
2.	5.	569.
	II. T • essalonians.
• .	6, 7.	423.
5.	1.	363.
	I Tim • thy.
2.	8.	95.
6.	6.	• 4 • .
6.	15, • 6.	178.
	Titus.
3.	8.	5 • .
	Hebrews.
6.	6.	305.
10.	26.	3 • 5.
10.	34.	25 • .
11.	25.	330.
11.	27.	103.
	James.
1.	27.	119.
4.	3.	9.
5.	1.	196, 243.
	I Peter.
1.	6.	632.
	II Pe • er.
2.	9.	191.
	I John.
3.	5.	39.
4.	18.	611.
	Jude.
0.	1.	193.
0.	10.	82.
0.	25.	177.
	Revelati • ns.
1.	17.	381.
3	3.	93.
3.	18.	584.
4.	1.	477.
4.	3.	547.
9.	6.	316.
10.	1.	548.
12.	15, 16.	191 547.
14.	2.	445.
15.	3.	642.
17.	1, 15.	551.