Exposition of Job 8-10

A

• ABib, the Jewish month, why so called, p. 73:
• Adamant, why so called, 160.
• Affliction, A good heart give • testimony to the righteousness of God, in the midst of greatest afflictions, p. 14; God lays very sore afflictions upon them that are very dear to him, p. 279.
• Afflictions continued cause • s to suspect that our prayer is not answered, p. 280. A godly man may be much oppressed with the fears of affliction, p. • 54. There was not such a spirit of rejoicing in affliction among the Saints of the Old Testament, as is under the New, p. 358. After purgings God goes on sometimes with afflictions. p. 372. It is lawful to pray against affliction, p. 399. Affliction removed three ways, p. 400. Great afflictions carry a charge of wickedness upon the afflicted, p. 432. An afflicted person is very solicitous about the reason of his afflictions, p. 436. Afflictions are searchers, p. 469. Afflictions affect with shame, p. 573. Under great afflictions our requests are modest, p. 579.
• Age, what meant by it? taken three ways, p. 55.
• Ancient of days, why God is so called, p. 460.
• Angels falling, why their sin greater then man's, and God so irreconcilable to them, p. 506.
• Anger in man, what it is, p. 180 How God is angry, p. 181. The troubles that fall upon the creature are the effects of God's anger, p. 181. It is not in the power of man to turn away the anger of God, p. 247. How prayer is said to do it, 10. The anger of God is more grievous to the Saints, then all their other afflictions, p. 433.
• Answering, of two kinds, p. 250.
• Antiquity, True antiquity gives testimony to the truth, p. 58. What true antiquity is, p. 59.
• Appearance, we must not judge by it, p. 360.
• Arcturus described, p. 209.
• Assurance that we are in a state of grace possible, and how wrought, p. 479.
• Awake, In what sense God awakes, p. 37, 38. His awaking and sleeping note only the changes of providence, p. 39. Two things awaken God, the prayer of his people, and the rage of his enemies, p. 40.

B

• BItternesse put for sorest affliction, p. 285. The Lord sometime mixes a very bitter cup for his own people, p. 286.
• Body of man the excellent frame of it, p. 516. Five things show this, p. 517.
• Body of man an excellent frame, p. 494. How called a vi • body, ib.
• Bones and sinews, their use in the body of man, p. 516.

C

• CAbits a sect of babbling Poets p. 7.
• Cause. Second causes can do nothing without the first, p. 493.
• Chambers of the South, what, and why so called, p. 210.
• Chistu the tenth month among the Jews, why so called, p. 209.
• Christ is the medium by which we see God, p. 231
• Clay. that man was made of clay, intimates three things, p. 504.
• Commands. God can make every word he speaks, a command p. 192. Every creature must submit to his command, ib. God hath a negative voice of command to stay the motion of any creature, p. 193.
• Comfort comes only from God, p. 348. Yet a man in affliction may help on his own comforts or sorrows, p. 351. Comforts put off upon two ground, ib.
• Commendation, To commend our selv • s very unseemly, p. 296, 297.
• Con • emnation hath three thing in it, which make it very g • evous, p. 432. It is the adjudging a man to be wicked, p. 434.
• Conscience, A good conscience to be kept rather then our lives, p. 303. God and conscience keep a record of our lives, p. 540.
• Consent to sin how proper to the wicked, p. 478.
• Contention, Man naturally loves it, p. 150. Man is apt to contend with God, p. 152. Especially about three things, p. 153. Man is unable to contend with God in anything, p. 154.
• Counsels of wicked men not shined on by God, p. 447.
• Custom in sin, what, p. 476.

D

• DAies-man, who, p. 385. why so called, p. 386. Five things belonging to a days-man, p. 387. A three-fold posture of the days-man in laying on his hand, p. 389. No creature can be a days-man between God and man, only Christ is, p. 392.
• Daies of God not like the days of man, p. 459.
• Death, Sudden death, or to be slain suddenly, in what sense a mercy, p. 313.
• Death, Man dies by statute, p. 508. Whether death was natural to man or no, p. 509. Death without order two ways, p. 584. No natural return from it, p. 580.
• Delight in sin worse then the committing of sin, p. 478.
• Despair is the cutting off of hope, p. 88.
• Duties, dangerous to lean upon them, p. 97. How hypocrites duties fail, p. 98. How we must hold duties fast, and how not, p. 99.

E

• EAgles flight, time compared to it, p. 339.
• Earth taken five ways in Scripture, p. 321. How the earth is given to wicked men, p. 322.
• Earth-quake, the force of it, p. 183. The cause of it, ib.
• Eclipse of the Sun when Christ suffered was miraculous in two respects, p. 190.
• Egypt called Rahab in Scripture, and why, p. 245.
• Eternity is God's day, p. 462. Difference between eternity, eviternity and time, ib. God hath time enough to do his work in, p. 463.
• Evil-doers who, p. 127. God will not help such, ib. How God concurs with evil-doers, and how not, p. 128, 129. God resists them, a twofold resistance, p. 131.
• Example, The examples of others falling into sin, or under punishment, should be our warnings, p. 31.
• Eyes of God what, p. 451. Seven differences between the eyes of God and man, p. 452.

F

• FAces of Judges covered, what it imports, p. 326. Face put for anger, &c. why, p. 346.
• Faith must have somewhat to lean upon, p. 93. Faith necessary in prayer, p. 273. Faith in prayer doth not deserve an answer, though it get one, p. 274. Faith hath its decays, pag. 276.
• Fear taken two ways, p. 404. Sutream fear binders speech, p. 405.
• Forgetfulness of God consists in four things, p. 78. Hypocrites are forgetters of God, p. 79. To forget God is a very great sin, p. 80. Forgetfulness of God is a mother sin, p. 81. Forgetfulness of three sorts, p. 345. Some things can hardly be forgotten, others as hardly remembered, p. 346.

G

• GIfts not to be trusted to, p. 95
• God gives to men two ways, p. 322.
• God, The best way for man to get his heart humbled is to look up to the holiness of God, p. 148. God is invisible and incomprehensible, p. 229. As God is, so he works above man, p. 375. The consideration that God is above man, should humble man, p. 376. The unevenness of man's acting towards God, arises from thoughts of his evenness with God, p. 377. 378. Man was made in the image of God, but God is not in the image of man, p. 380. Man should take heed of measuring God especially in three things, p. 381. Man cannot contend with God, shown in seven things, 384. Why it is so fearful to fall into the hands of God, p, 394. Presence of God both joyful and terrible, p. 402, 403. Man cannot bear the anger of God; p. 403. God knows the state of every man, p. 471. God knoweth all things, in and of himself, p, 473.
• Godly man shall never be cast away, p. 122. How God may be said to east his people away, p. 123 God highly honors them, p. 124. A godly man exalts God, while God is casting him down, p. 222. Godly men are a safety and a support to the places where they live, p. 244. Yet sometimes God will not be entreated by the godly, ib. A godly man may put the worst cases to himself, p. 543.
• Good and bad, alike dealt with by God in outward things, p. 310.
• Grace acts always like itself, but a gracious man doth not, p. 364.
• Guilt, Till guilt be removed, fear will not, p. 357. Guilt of sin wearieth the soul, p. 413.

H

• HAnd, Putting forth the hand notes three things in Scripture, p. 125, 126. Hand put for outward conversation or action, p. 367. Washing hands an emblem of freedom from guilt, p. 368. Laying on of the hand, what it signifies, p. 387. Hands, How ascribed to God, his hand implies two things, p. 442. Hands of God what. p. 489.
• Hardning the heart, what, 160 A hardening the heart to do either good or evil, ib. The heart hardened appears in six things, p. 161. A three-fold hardness of heart, p. 162. Man hardens himself against God upon four grounds, p. 163. Nine degrees or steps of hardness of heart, p. 164, 165. None ever prospered by hardening themselves against God, p. 166. A hard heart is Satan's cushion, p. 166.
• Hatred taken two ways, 137. Wicked men haters of the righteous, p. 141.
• Hearkening is more then hearing, p. 272.
• Head, Lifting up of the head, what it imports in Scripture, 545.
• Heart the best repository for truth, p. 70.
• Heaven, The various acceptations of it in the Scriptures, 199.
• Heaven is a building of three stories, p. 200.
• Help given by God, twofold, p. 128.
• Holy persons fit for holy duties, p. 34. It is not contrary to free grace, to say we must be holy, if we would be heard, p. 35.
• Hopelesse, To be so is the worst condition, p. 84, 88. Where hope faileth, endeavor faileth also, 364
• Humility, a godly man's thoughts are lowest of himself, p, 251. The more holiness any man hath, the more humility he hath, p. 547.
• Hypocrite compared to a rush in six particulars, p. 75, 76, 77. What an hypocrite is, p. 82. Two sorts of hypocrites, p. 83. They are filthy, they may be full of hopes, their hopes will deceive them, p. 84 He shall loath himself, p. 85, 86. his whole course is nothing but foolishness, p. 87. He shall be hopeless, 88. His hope like a spiders-web, shown in five things, p. 90, 91. He hath two houses, p. 94. His hopes may be very strong, p. 96. He hath three witnesses, ib. All he trusts to shall fail, p, 97. He may abound in outward blessings, p. 104. They do all to be seen, p. 105. They may endure persecution a while, p, 105. They care not whom they wrong, so they may thrive, 108. They are often destroyed in the height of their prosperity, 110. They shall be forgotten or remembered with disgrace, p. 113, 114 He may have much joy. p. 115. His joy is most from outward things, 116. His joy is short, ib.

I

• IDol. The same word in Hebrew signifies sorrow and an idol, two reasons of it, 353. Idols, why called Emims, p. 401.
• Immortality three-fold, 510.
• Instruments and second causes. What God doth by them is to be reckoned as his own act, p. 235.
• Joy is the portion of the Saints, and they shall receive it in good time, p, 135. They rejoice in the works of God's mercies to themselves, judgments on enemies, 136
• Justice and judgment, how they differ, p. 12. Judgment opposed to three things, ib. Judgment subverted two ways, p. 14. To pervert judgment what, p. 13, 15. Judgments of God find most men secure, p. 178. Judgment taken three ways, p. 291. Judgment of God unlike man's in four things, p. 455, 456.
• God is most exact in justice, p. 15. Three things cause men to pervert justice. p. 16. Justice of God how acquitted, when he afflicts us without cause, p. 282. Justice or righteousness twofold, p. 148.
• Justification cannot be by works, p. 155 299. Self-justification will prove self-condemnation, p. 295. Three reasons of it, ib. Justification sure, though the person justified have doubts concerning it, p. 359. We are never so black in God's eye, as when we are whitest in our own, p. 369.

K

• KNowledge, Life of man so short that he cannot get much knowledge, p. 64. We should have humble thoughts of our own knowledge, ib. A godly man is a knowing man, p. 146. The more we know God, the more humble we are, p. 252.
• Knowledge of ourselves twofold, p. 301.
• Knowledge of God concerning man, and all other things described, p. 471, 472. 473. &c. It is matter of great consolation to the Saints, that God knows them, p. 475. His knowledge of us, gives us an assurance of four things, ib. and 476.

L
• LAughter, Filling the mouth with it, what, p. 133. Laughter of two sorts, ib. How the Lord laughs at the afflictions of his people, opened, p. 315, 316, &c.
• Law, Why God calls his laws, judgments, 12. Good laws without good men, never made a happy people, p. 48.
• Law -suits to be avoided, 392.
• Life, What it is, p. 412. Life taken two ways, ibid. Life may grow to be a burden, p. 419 Grounds of this burdensomnes of life both in wicked and godly men shown, p. 419, 420, &c. Life is the gift of God, p. 521. a favor, p. 523.
• Loathing twofold, p. 86.
• Lion, God comes forth as a lion against his own servants, p, 555.
• Losses, Great losses have great repairs, p 50.
• Love of God everlasting, 132.
• Lust, The shortest time is too long to serve any lust in, p. 5.

M

• MAle children, why expressed in the Hebrew by a word which signifies memory, p. 500.
• Man is the work of God's hands, p. 443. Three cautions from it, p. 444. It moves the Lord to compassion, to tell him we are the work of his hands, p. 445.
• Memory or remembrance, how ascribed to God, p. 55. It implieth two things, ib.
• Mercies come in by degrees; we may be over-mercy'd as well as over afflicted, p. 51.
• Misery, vid. Afflictions.
• Mountains, Figurative mountains of two sorts, p. 171, 172. To remove a mountain, used proverbially for doing the most difficult things, p. 174. 175.

N

• NAtural things are shadows to us of spiritual, p. 74.
• Negative voice, God hath one upon all creatures, p. 193. Where the negative voice lies, there is the greatest power, p. 194

O

• OLd-men are presumed to know much, p. 69.
• Oppression twofold, p. 439.
• Orion described, p. 209.

P

• PAnther, His fierceness against man-kind, p. 141.
• Pardon of sin is our acquittance from sin, p. 542.
• Passions ascribed to God, have no power over him, p. 247.
• Path, Our ordinary course of life compared to a path, p. 77, 78.
• Perseverance in evil, is worse then the doing of evil, p. 4.
• Pleiades, what, and why so called, p. 209.
• Pillars, Two set up before the flood, p. 56. Pillars of the earth, what, p. 185. The real pillar of the earth is God's power, p. 186. Metaphorical pillars of the earth, who, p. 187.
• Power of God as visible in changing, as in settling the course of nature, p. 76. Power of God can do greater things then ever he hath done, p. 184. Power of God such, that he needs not the help of any creature, p. 202. None can rescue from the hand of his power, p. 236. His power is absolute, p. 241.
• Prayer, early in the morning, p. 28. Prayer is a seeking of God, ib. God must be sought speedily and diligently, 29. In prayer we must expect all from free grace, p. 30. Prayer of the upright prevails, p. 35. Holy prayer is certainly and presently heard, p. 39. Prayer awakens God, p. 40. It should be fervent, p. 40. Prayer cannot stay the anger of God sometimes against a people, p. 237. How prayer is said to prevail with God, p. 247. Prayer a reasoning with God, p. 256. Nothing of man so prevailing with God as prayer, p. 367. Faith in prayer, p. 273. Prayers may be answered, while we are still afflicted, p. 278.
• Preservation the work of God, p. 529. He preserves both natural and spiritual life, p. 530.
• Pride, we are apt to be proud of strength, p. 243. Pride comes from ignorance of ourselves, 300.
• Prognostication by the stars sinful and vain, p. 219.
• Providence of God orders the greatest confusions in the world, p. 331. Confusions argue the power of God, p. 332.
• Purposes to sin, how proper to wicked men, p. 477.

Q

• QUestions, In all disputes and questions we should yield as much as without wrong to truth may be yielded to, p. 146.
• Three kinds of questions, p. 570.
• Extravagant questions, what fruit they produce, p. 572.

R

• REasoning with God twofold, how we may or may not reason with God, p. 255. Reasoning with god in prayer, p. 256.
• Remembrancer, A great honor to be so to God, 501. Saints use to put God in remembrance of four things, ib. &c.
• Repentance twofold, sinful and for sin, p. 377.
• Reproofs are often grounded upon mistakes, p 6.
• Righteousness, what it is, p. 44. Righteousness the mother of prosperity, p. 46. Two things make a Nation an habitation of righteousness, p. 47, 48. Man is called righteous in a twofold opposition, p. 261. Two sorts of righteousness, p. 262. How a righteous person may answer God, and how not, 262. Mans righteousness is not pleadable before God, p. 264. A godly man reckons his righteousness as nothing, p. 265
• Rod, What it signifies in Scripture, p. 395. Affliction called a rod in a three-fold consideration, p. 398.

S

• SCourge put for any kind of affliction, p. 312. A sudden scourge, what, p. 313
• Sea, The sea in its highest rage is under the command of God, p. 204.
• Sealing of a thing imports two things, p. 197.
• Shaddai, Three significations of it opened in reference to justice, p. 11.
• Shadow notes things, p. 66. Mans life how like a shadow, 67.
• Shame, The fruit of sin, what shame is, and how caused, p. 137, &c. Three degrees of Scripture expression about shame, p. 139. To be clothed with shame notes four things, p. 140.
• Ship, How time passes like a ship, p. 337, 338.
• Sincerity causeth us to rate ourselves low, p. 407.
• Sin, God gives men up to the power of sin, p. 25. Sin is a punishment, p. 25. Sin shall not go long unpunished by outward evils, p. 27. They who are equal in sin, may be unequal in punishment, p. 32. How God assists, and how not in the committing of sin, p. 128, 129. All sin is resisted by God, p. 131, All our weaknesses are the effects of sin, p. 263. A godly man may relapse into sin, p. 417. Sin is a debt, p. 541.
• Small and great in a twofold sense, p. 49. We must not despise small beginnings, p. 52.
• Sorrow is not easily shaken off, p. 347.
• Sovereignty of God, p. 284.
• Soul taken two ways in Scripture, p. 412. Three things weary and load the soul, p. 413. Soul and life in man are distinct, 418.
• Spirit, A three-fold work of the spirit, p. 480. Spirit of man taken three ways, p 528.
• Star, what it is, p. 207. The differences of the stars, ib. & 208. The number of the known stars, p. 208. The known stars represented in forty one images, ibid. All the stars are particularly placed in the heavens for the good of man, p. 212. Man very apt to commit idolatry with the stars, p. 212, 215. God knows the number and names of all the stars, p. 213. Some stars more excellent then others, ib. The power and wisdom of God shine forth from the stars, p. 214. Six things show the power and wisdom of God in making and ordering the stars, p. 215. Stars can do nothing of themselves, but as God orders, p 217. They are for signs, but not for infallible signs, p. 219. It is a duty to study the stars, p. 220.
• Strength, of two sorts, p. 158. Strength of God opened, ibid. Strength signified by five distinct words in the Hebrew, pag. 289. Strength of God insuperable, p. 289. The strength of God appears in three things, pag. 290.
• Sun at God's command, p. 189. Shadow of the Sun going back in Hezekiah's time, p. 193. The rising of the Sun is an act of favor renewed to the world every day, p. 196
• Supplication, The nature of it, p. 29.
• Supplication, properly what it is, p. 266.

T

• TEmptation makes the Saints sometimes weary of their lives, p. 420. Great afflictions lay us open to great temptations, p. 430.
• Thousand, How taken in Scripture, p. 151. One of a thousand, what it means, ib.
• Time is very swift, p. 334. Swift as, and swifter then a Post, shown in ten particulars, p. 335.
• Tradition and immediate revelation the rule, till the Word was written, p. 56.
• Trust, what it is, p. 89. A twofold effect of trust, ibid. Trust of hypocrites like a Spiders web in five things, p. 90, 91.
• Truth is more ancient then error, p. 59. Truth cannot be had with ease, pag. 61. Four things fit us for the search of truth, ib. Truth is to be highly esteemed, p. 71. We should yield to one another in controversies, as far as truth will let us, p. 146. Truth is ever the same, and we should be the same to truth, p. 307. Great truths must be resolutely maintained, p. 308.
• Type, what it is properly, p. 32.

V

• Vision of God in heaven, not in his Essence, p. 231. We cannot see God fully on earth in his Word and works, p. 228, 232. That we see so little of God should humble us, p. 233.
• Visitation of God three-fold, p. 527.
• Untill, notes a continued act, p. 132.

W

• WAshing, What it imports, ceremonial washings, p. 365, 366.
• Wicked men have their name from unquietness, p. 309. They often abound with earthly things, p. 324. They have a just title to the earthly things which they enjoy, p. 325, 326. How it is in vain for a wicked man to seek unto God, and how not, p. 362. 363. To be accounted wicked, is a sore affliction, p. 434. Wicked men in what sense they may be said to have prosperity, p. 448. To be wicked, or to do wickedly is inconsistent with grace, p. 476. A wicked man, who, described in five particulars, p. 476, &c. All men are either godly or wicked, p. 482.
• Wise, What it is to be wise in heart, p. 156. God is infinitely wise, p. 157.
• Witness and party must not be the same man, p 295.
• Woes of two sorts, pag. 542. Woe is the portion of the wicked, p. 543.
• Words, It is our duty to watch over our words, p. 5. It is a duty to give check to the idle or evil words of others, ib. Words like a strong wind, shown in six particulars, p. 8, 9. God is not taken with fine words, p. 259.
• Worldly things have no consistence, They are always in motion p. 336, 337. They pass as if they had never been, 341. Worldly estate of good men, as transitory as that of evil men, p 342.
• Works of God are to be recorded for after times, p. 57. It is our duty to inquire into former times, p. 58. It is but little of God that we are able to see in his works, p. 228, • 32.

Y

• YEsterday, Taken three ways in Scripture, p. 62.

Genesis.

Exodus.

Leviticus.

Numbers.

Deuteronomy.

Joshua.

Judges.

1 Samuel.

2 Samuel.

1 Kings.

2 Kings.

2 Chronicles.

Nehemiah.

Esther.

Job.

Psalms.

Proverbs.

Ecclesiastes.

Canticless

Isaiah.

Jeremiah.

Lamentations.

Ezekiel.

Daniel.

Hosea.