(seq. 10)

to instigate Jobs Enemies to destroy
it - He is sometimes said to harden
men, when he uses such means wt
ym as eventually do harden (them), tho the
means themselves have quite a con-
trary tendency - He hardened Pha-
roahs heart by a series of {Judgements},
{which} if they had by yr proper in-
fluence would have softened it & often
did soften it for a short time - but
the proud tyrant prevented ym finally
to an (opposite &) unnatural effect - and thus he
is said to have hardened his own
heart. -

God sent his prophets to warn his
{people} of yr sin & danger - They abused
these warnings & thus hardened {themselves}
still more in sin - but as yr in-
creasing stupidity was the effect
of warnings {which} came from God, thus
God is said to have hardened ym - Those
means of grace, {which} sh- have been
a Savoir of life were a favour of
death to them, because yr tempers
were perverse & refractory -
- You will observe -

//5This awful {Judgement} is denounced
agt them for yr contempt of God's.
former messages -

//illegible God affords to sin-
ners, together with external means, some
internal influences of his Spirit. Thus
his spirit is said to strive with them
(- and they are warned not to grieve and)
illegible
resist his spirit - But they
may so far abuse God's grace, yt he