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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27995	The book of Job paraphras'd by Symon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1679 (1679)	Wing B2639; ESTC R38814	190,572	364

452 453. And therefore one Use we may make of this Book is to inform our selves what are the true natural dictates of humane reason which teaches greater Chastity than many Christians are now willing to observe strict Justice both private and publick compassionate Charity to those who are in need together with a pious care to please God and to worship and confide in him alone as we may learn here better than from any other Book in the World For in the XXXI Chapter Job gives such a character of his Life with respect to all these as declares both that there is a Law written in our hearts and what instructions it gives us if we will attend to it There is not the least syllable that we read concerning his being Circumcised or observing the Sabbath or such like parts of the Mosaical Discipline which assures us he was neither a natural Israelite nor a Proselyte as St. Austin speaks * Lib. XVIII Cap. 47. De Civit. Dei. and yet he found such a rule of life in himself that by the assistance of the Divine Grace he ordered not only his outward actions but the inward motions of his mind after such a manner as is not unsuitable to the Evangelical Doctrine of our Saviour They are the words of Eusebius in the place forenamed where he doth not fear to add that the Word of Christ hath published to all Nations that most ancient manner of Godliness which was among the first Fathers so that the New-Covenant is no other than that old godly polity which was before the times of Moses I may add before the time that Abraham was Circumcised when as St. Chrysostome speaks very significantly * Vpon Rom. II. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their Conscience and the use of reason sufficed instead of the Law The Hebrew Books indeed are full of discourses concerning certain Precepts which all mankind after the Flood observed but cannot all of them be deduced from the principles of Reason They call them the VII Precepts of the sons of Noah who delivered them they say to all his Children by whom the World was peopled and therefore the Israelites ever exacted the observance of them from all those Gentiles whom they admitted as Proselytes at large to their Religion Two of those Precepts concerned their duty toward the blessed Creator the next Four respected their duty towards their Neighbours the Last forbad cruelty towards other Creatures They are reckoned up commonly in this order I. Concerning Strange Worship or Idolatry II. About blaspheming the Name of God III. About Murder IV. About the uncovering of Nakedness or all silthy Mixtures V. About Theft and Rapine VI. About Judicatures and Civil Government to make the other Precepts more carefully observed VII About not eating of any flesh which is cut off from any Animal alive The Authours that treat of these are innumerable among whom I shall only mention Maimonides who thus delivers his opinion of them in his Treatise of Kings Chap. IX Adam the first man received commands about Six things which are those first above mentioned from whence it is that the Mind of Man inclines more pronely to them than to the rest of the Commands which we have received from our Master Moses Besides these it is manifest Noah received another according to what we read IX Gen. 4. Flesh with the life thereof you shall not eat And thus things stood throughout the whole world until the dayes of Abraham to whom there was superadded the Precept of Circumcision But as there is not the least signe that Circumcision was part of Job's Religion so there is no footstep at all remaining of his observance of the last of those VII Precepts which they say all the Sons of Noah who were pious carefully obeyed A Great man of our own Nation * Mr. Selden L. ult de Jure Naturali c. Cap. II. hath sifted this business with as much diligence as is possible but after all his search he is fain to stop at those first Six Precepts delivered to Adam For though this General Character be given of Job in the beginning of the Book that he was a perfect or simple and upright man fearing God and eschewing evil and in the XXXI Chapter and other places there are particular instances given of his abhorring strange Worship v. 26. Blasphemy Chap. I. 5. Murder XXXI 29 31. Adultery and other filthiness Ib. v. 1 9. Theft Rapine and Deceit v. 5 6 7. for the punishment of which he mentions Judges in his days v. 11 28. and was himself one of the chief XXIX 11. Yet there is not so much as one word to be found that I can discern concerning the Seventh Precept whether we understand thereby eating flesh with the blood in it or which is more likely because other Nations that were not Jews might lawfully eat that which dyed of it self XIV Deut. 21. eating that which was cut alive from any living Creature Which makes me think that it was not so generally known as the Jews now pretend till the memory of it was revived by Moses among whose Ancestours the Tradition was more carefully preserved than in other Nations For Job and such like pious persons seem to have been governed by those Precepts only which the first Man received that is the dictates of Natural reason According to those words of Tertullian in his Book against the Jews Chap. 2. where he contends that before the Law of Moses written in Tables of Stone there was a Law not written which was naturally understood and observed by the Fathers Which he elsewhere calls the Common Law which we meet withal in publico Mundi in the streets and high-ways of the world in the natural Tables which mankind having broken our Saviour came to repair and renew abrogating the Law of Moses in which the Jews had placed too much confidence while they neglected these natural Precepts Or rather He hath not only ingaged us by his holy Sacraments to observe those more strictly but raised them also to a greater height of purity according to that of St. Chrysostome in his Book of Virginity We are to shew greater Vertue because now there is an abundant Grace poured out and great is the gift of the coming of Christ But the principal benefit to omit the naming of many other whereby I might recommend this work which I hope pious Souls especially the Afflicted will reap by this Book is to be perswaded thereby that all things are ordered and disposed by Almighty God without whose command or permission neither good Angels nor the Devil nor Men nor any other Creature can do any thing And that as his Power is infinite so is his Wisedom and Goodness which is able to bring good out of evil And therefore we ought not to complain of Him in any condition as if He neglected us or dealt hardly with us but rather chearfully submit our selves to his blessed will which never