332 Verf.. a.. Ae Expofition upon the Bookof J OB. Propriaad il- dam rempercé. net cui poteft ailguid bere zet male coo- tirgere, fc.ra- tioneli creato- ', rS,. Creatural autetn irratio- natibue, bonum gel matin di- cr tut%ori irgere in ordine ad creaturam rati olalem,proptee gu,m finir, ..comas, ubi_ Nra° Chap.3; which is a part of time, is in it fell uncapable of a curfe , Thofè things only are capable ofpenal evils, which are capable of moral evils A day is not,cannot be morally evil, though there be many moral evils ailed in the day. The Apoftle advïfèth;us, to redeem the time becaufe the clays are evil,Ephef.5. r 5. Times are called evil, in regard both of troublefome evils and fulfill evils , From evil men, and evil manners, dáyes arc denominated evil, yet dayes in thenAlves are not evil morally,and fo not liable to a curfe, which is a penalevil. Further, Thofe creatures which have life in them, and have no reafon in thtm,areon the fa nee ground incapableof a curfe:where- as it is faid, that God curfed,the ground, and ctirfed the ferpent, Gen. 3,.14, 57. neither the ground nor the ferpent were curfèd in thendelves, or fortheir own fakes. The ferpent ari unreafonable creature,had not the-knowledge of God, and the earth a fenfelefs creature could not feel the power of God;therefore thecurie upon thofe creatures,was only in order to,and as a punifhment of the fin ofinan5 The Text isexpress, Gen. 3. 17. turfed be the earth for thy fake ; Theearth there comprehendsall the creatures living on the face of the earth,befidesman : Thefe are curled for mans fake. As thole creatures at the firli received not a being or a bleflîng for theinfelves;but for mans good,fo they receive not any-evil or curie but for mans punifhment : So we are to underflaud thofe.placesin Deut.28.Cur/edbe thy Basket and thy 'fore, &c. God threatensa curie on thefe creatures,the fruits of the.earth,&c.iii order tomans difobedience : But it jhall come.topafs,. if thou wilt not hearken to the voyce of the Lord thy God , to obferve to do all big Command- ments, &c. that all theft curfes fhall come upon thee, and overtake thee, vet. 15. Obferve, That the curie is threat.ned to come on them,to overtake them ; When the basket was curfed,when the in- Create, ofthe kine and the flocksOf the.fheep were curled, man was curfed:For we may fay in the letter, as David did in a figure, when the Angel of the Lord Emote his people with the pefiilence , (2 Sam. 24.) Alas, rebat have theft Peep done? that they fhould be (mitten with a curie. As inpulling down the houleof a Tray- tor , the revenge is not takenagainft the materials of the houfe, but aginli the matter of the houle. So then, for the refolutionof this point,, take it thus, No creaturebelowman is or can be accur- fed by God or man properly, terminately, or ultimately.; That isr, in it fell or for it Pelf, from -it fell, but only - improperly and
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