13o Chap. I. An Expoftion upon the Bookof j O B. Verf. I I. faries : God expreffeth the utter overthrow ,of the enemies ofhis people, but by the turning ofa hand; if God do but turn his hand, they are all gone prefently, foot: fubducd ; ifhe do but touch the might, the pomp, the greatnefs, the riches, and the power of all thofe in the world that are oppofers of his Church, prefently they fall to theground :.A touch from the hand ofGod will end our wars : If he touch the Mountains they fmoals (as it is in the Ffalm)and confirme to afhes : they that are the mighty and great ones of the world, the Mountains, by one touch of his hand" fall as it were to nothing. So it God do, but touch our eflates, they moulder away, no creature canuphold them. Then again obferve here, the cunning impofture of Satan that puts fuch fore, filch heavy of liftions into fuch light and calleex- preffions ; he cloathed his malice, his utmoft malice here, in very fair words : do but touchhim, faith this enemy; but you fee what Satans touches are, touch all that he bath. Why Satan,would no- thing have made a tryal, but only a touching of all ? For job to have loft fomewhat had been a tryal,a touch : for Job to haveloft halfhis flocks ofShecp,or his Oxen,had been a tryall,and no very light oneneither ; for jeb to have loft a Son,to have found one of his children fuddenly (truck dead,had been an afelio`tion,and a hea- vie one too ? fuch a touch as that might well have touched the fa- thers heart : Would it not ferve Satan that a Son fhould dye, or. that forceofhis cattel fhould be dcftroyed, but he muft..have all . touched, all that he bath ? The malice ofSatän is unfatiable, there, is,noth ing will ferve him, unlefs he may devour,. all. This touch ofSatan,which he defireth might be laid upon job, is_like the touch that manyhave given to tho-fe,who have come in- to their.hands,amongft es ; theywould but touch them, but they . wwuld:touch them in all; when they.put forth theirhands(as they pretended)in the waysofjufiice,in their courts,theywould touch . men,inall, touch men in their liberties by imprifonment, and touch them in their eftates by extream vaft fines, andtouch them in their names bydifgrace,touch them in their bodies by whipping and cutting ; and touch them in their relations, by keeping all friends from fight of them,:;Nomoderation, no bounds, but touch them in all that theyhad And (Q. exaétnefs of juftice ! ) when God came to touch thatpower,he gave thema touch,juft after the weand proportion oftheir own touches;for when thofe courts and perfons came tohave, their power and "actions Séanncd, it was fix.:
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