330 Verí: i. Ar Expofitìon upon the i;ookof j OB. Chap.3. 6 wholematter as we have confidered the words. There are two or three queftions, which being debated and refo1' ed,will give light to this context. job you fee takes upon him to curie, Firft,it may be queftioned, whether a curie be in the power of manor.no? Can a man curie perlons or things? Surely bletlings and curlings are both in the hand ofGod,whe- ther we refped perfons or things. There is a minitferial curie, and a minifierial blefing in the power of man : but it is not in the power of any manmagifferially to make any thing or perfon blef- fed, or to make any thing of perfon accurled. It wasa great brag which Balac! madeofBalaam( Num.22.6.)I root(faith he)tbat he whom thou bl<fcfi it ble¡fid, and be whom thou curßefl it turfed. He thought hehad the curie in his command,he could curie whom he pieafed,and what he pleafcd,and when he pleated, but he was de- ceived ; he reckonedbeyond his firength, and beyond the ífrength . of a creature. What the Aponte freaks iri another cafe concerning the minithy of the word, Paul mayplant, and Apollos maywater, but it it God that giveth the inereafe, is as true in this one man may plant a cute , and another man may water it with a hearty with that it may grow, but it is God only that giveth the increafe of.evil, and the decreafofgood. Curfès are not in the power of any creaturc;if they were,we íhould have a miferable world quick ly.How'many fhóuld we fee daily blafted with-the breath ofma- Petma f +;iper licions execrations ? Some mens mouths are full of curling, Pfal. iyaria; ida ro. 7. _ i hey laze curfing, they cloath tbemfelves with curfingas"with font maledicaa, agarrne»t, Pfal. 109. 17, i8: Curling (as one of the Ancients non complained in his time ) is now made the common weaponof pql inwe- anger and wrath" wifhes that evil, which (becaufe wealmefs ) tiller, optamzss g' , Trait Vatit it cannot work. If curling could have done it, we had not been zialistro'armis a people at this day. Howoftenhath Balack ( out of fear or en- .. utimur. Salvi- at our profperity ) lent to (salaam (I Mean the falfe Prophet auñcrn de r` that dwells on the feven hills) Come curie Ifrael, come defie England; - how often hath that Balaam curs'd our 7Jrael ? We have heard of his Anniverlàry Anathema's, wherein this Church and 'State have been (truck with the thunder and lightningof his Papal curie. But the curie caufelefs ( faith Solomon) (hall not come. And we may lay to England, as Mofes did to Ifrael con- cerning Ealaam,r curie, Deut. 23. 5. Neverthelefs-the' Lord thy God would not hearken unto . Balaam : But the Lord thy God turn- ed.
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