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A27997	The book of Job in meeter as to several of those excellent things contain'd therein, the better to familiarize them, and to bring them the more into use, for peoples benefit, to be sung after the ordinary, and usual tunes. By R. P. Minister of the Gospel, and an admirer of the infinite perfections and excellencies of God.; Bible. English. Selections.	R. P.	1700 (1700)	Wing B2640A; ESTC R215884	24,889	92

THE BOOK OF JOB IN MEETER AS To several of those excellent Things contain'd therein the better to familiarize them and to bring them the more into Use for Peoples Benefit to be Sung after the Ordinary and Usual Tunes Cantus Melodia instituitur ad spiritualem quandum delectationem quia animus detinetur in Meditatione Rei Cantatae Ames All thy Works shall Praise Thee O Lord and thy Saints shall Bless Thee Psalm 145. 10. By R. P. Minister of the Gospel and an Admirer of the Infinite Perfections and Excellencies of God London Printed for the Author and Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chapel 1700. THE PREFACE THIS Book is intitled the Book of Job it being indeed an History of Job as of his Integrity and his Sore and Heavy Trials and exemplary Patience so of the blessed End which the Lord at length made his Sore Tryals ending in glorious Triumphs and his Sorrows in great Rejoicings It is indeed a most excellent Book full of various and most excellent Matter which we should be well acquainted with and much vers'd in 1. We have in it many High and Lofty Discoveries of God and of his glorious Attributes and Perfections as of his Wisdom Power Glory Majesty Greatness Goodness Righteousness and Incomprehensibleness c. 2. We have a Description of his wonderful Works and wonderful and gracious Providence providing for all sorts of Creatures c. 3. Here we have much held forth not only of the Creator but also of the Creatures which Manifest and Declare the Glory of the Creator 4. We have here an Example of the greatest Piety most invincible Patience and sweet Submissiveness under the sharpest Dispensations 5. We have here held forth the Happy End that God makes in afflicting his People and that he is very pitiful and of tender Mercy James 5. 11. 6. We are here instructed as to several Things very observable and of great Importance As 1. That Persons may be very Great and yet Gracious and Good very Rich and yet Righteous very Wealthy and yet Vertuous as we see here in Job And this is a Blessed Conjunction indeed but very Rare Riches exposing so much to Vice and the Snares and Temptations of such being so many and great hence says our Saviour to his Disciples and he puts a Verily to it A Rich Man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven All hardly but they hardlier than others if Truth it self may be believed But though with Men it is impossible but not with God with whom all things are possible He can withdraw the Heart from the inordinate Love of them and from trusting in them but how hard is this and hence which is very observable when Jesus Christ had explained himself Mark 10. 24. Children how hard is it for them that trust in Riches to enter into the Kingdom of God yet then it is said they were astonished out of measure c. Because it is so hard to have Riches and not to trust in them hence Paul bespeaks Timothy To charge them that are Rich in this World not to trust in them c. 1. Tim. 6. 17 18 19. and therefore for such to be Good as Job here was it is to be good indeed and to be one of a Thousand Read 1 Tim. 6. 9 10. 2. We are taught here that Persons of the greatest Integrity may be exercis'd with the greatest Calamities whilst the Wicked Prosper in the World are Secure and increase in Riches 3. That the highest and best founded Estate here as to outward Things is mutable 4. That Afflictions are not by Chance but are ordered by Divine Providence 5. What undaunted Courage and strong Consolation Integrity gives in Times of Trial. 6. We have here in a Word a mixture and variety of all Learning and Religion of all Philosophy and Divinity so that this Book may well be stil'd as one Calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Book that contains all Excellencies in it And now the greatest Part of this Book being in the Original in Verse yea all but the two first Chapters and Part of the Last and it being a Book of so great Excellency and containing in it so many great and excellent things I have spent some time and no small Pains to turn many of them into Verse and have reduc'd them to certain Heads that they might be the better known and the better made use of I do not pretend to Poetry neither do I much Paraphrase upon the Words but for the most Part keep close to them as they are translated which I judge meetest in turning Divine Things into Meeter And now as I looked upon this as that which might be very advantagious and serviceable to my Self so if through the Blessing of God it shall but any ways prove so to others which is that I design therein I shall think my Time and Pains well bestowed however let an attempt thereto be accepted THE CONTENTS AS concerning God's Excellencies and Perfections viz. His wonderful Power Wisdom Greatness Majesty Immensities and other Excellencies and Perfections in himself as also several Ways manifested and displayed in and by the Creature and in and by his great and glorious Works Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. God's Answer to Job out of the Whirlwind p. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Concerning Behemoth p. 15. Concerning Leviathan p. 16 17. God Invisible and Omniscient p. 18. God Just and Righteous p. 19 20. God Incomprehensible p. 21. God's great Condescention in magnifying Man p. 22. Wisdom is of God Ibid. Affliction from God p. 23. God's Way with the Righteous p. 24. No Contending with God p. 25. Concerning Man's sinfulness vilenss unworthiness and worthlesness p. 26 27 28. Man's Frailty and Mortality the Brevity of his Life and Impossibility of his Return hither again p. 29 30 31 32. What is Man's Wisdom p. 33. The Godlies Submissiveness under the afflicting Hand of God p. 34 35. The Godlies Hope and Happiness p. 35 36. The Godly not secure p. 37. The Integrity of the Godly p. 38 39. Concerning the Hypocrite p. 40. The Benefits of acquainting our selves with God and when he gives Peace p. 41. Rest in the Grave p. 43. The Misery of the Wicked p. 44 45 46 44. The Benefit of Repentance upon God's chastening of Man p. 49 50. The Prosperity of the Wicked together with the Brevity and Vncertainty thereof p. 51 52. Hymns taken out of Solomons Song The Spouses Description of her Beloved p. 53 54. The Spouses sweet Resolve p. 55. Requests of the Spouse to her Beloved p. 56. Out of the Fortieth of Isaiah God's exceeding and incomprehensible Greatness and Majesty p 57 58. The Mystery of Godliness for Sacramental Occasions p. 59. An Hymn after Sacrament p. 60. Sacramental Hymns p. 61 62. An Hymn for the Spirit and Grace p. 63 64. From Nahum Chap. 1. v. 1 2 c. God's Majesty and Severity against his