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H. S. of Cumberland
Rev. Mr. Adderton, Harrington
Mr. Tho. Carrick, Wardrew
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Majefty's Jail

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field

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LECTURE I.

JOB XXXviii. 4.

Where waft thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou bast understanding.

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HE Book of Job carries on the face of it, fuch ftriking marks of remote antiquity,

that Jews and Chriftians in general, have looked upon it as the oldeft compofition in the world. As a proof that it was written before the giving of the law from Mount Sinai, we do not find in it, one allufion to any rite or ceremony of the Mofaic inftitution: neither does it mention any thing relating to the pofterity of Jacob; their fojourning in Egypt; their paffage through the Red Sea, or their peregrinations in the Wilderness; tho' it frequently introduces fingular and extraordinary acts of Divine providence. It's language is bold and nervous, and decorated with all the imagery of Eastern eloquence; and it abounds with defcriptions of the majesty and power of Almighty God, which are truly animated and fublime. This Book acquaints us with feveral memorable

tranfactions, not recorded by any other writer under the Old Testament. It tells us, that before the formation of this globe, there were ftars in the firmament and angels in Heaven.* Where waft thou when I laid the foundations of the earth, when the morning ftars fang together, and all the fons of God fhouted for joy? It fpeaks of the apoftacy of angelic hofts. Behold he put no truft in his fervants, and his angels he charged with folly. And it gives us a record of fomething which God spoke to Adam, which is not to be met with elsewhere. And unto man, or to Adam he faid. Behold the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

Who was the father of Job, and at what precife period of the world he flourished, we are no where told; but the name of the country where he dwelt, and the defignations of his friends, bespeak him a defcendent of Ifhmael or Efau; and the length of his age, which was above two hundred years, is a proof that he lived in the days of the patriarchs, before the life of man was reduced to its fhortest measure. Some draw an argument for Job's living in an early period, from the clear and perfpicuous manner, in which he delivers the leading doctrines of that religion, which God was pleafed to communicate to the

* Ch. xxxviii. 4.7 Ch. iv. 18. Ch. xxviii. 28,