'Chap. 3. AnExpoftion upontheBook of J O"B. Verf 15 415 gold ; and,likewife what is requitite for them. Gold. is of great ufe in a high¿pate_;- Treafures are neceffary for Princes,; Princes that hadgold. ThereforeSolomon that wife' Prince faith, of him- felf, Ecclef. 2.. 8. and he putteth it among his Princely' works, T gatheredme alfo Silver and Gold , and 'the peculiar treyfare of Kings When the »ife.men came to ChriJt, the firlt thin g chey offered himWas Gold, and theydid wifely, for he was a Prince Gòld being the cheif,and as it were the PrinFe ofMettals,is a very -. properoffering.for Princes., And howloever wifdom and good- nefs,juftice and clemency. are far more neceffary requifites in Prin- cefs then Gold,yet there isfuch a neceffary conjuntic n ofthefe two that we find him in the Prophet (Ifa. 3.7:) refuting the government becaufe he was poor. Be thou our Ruler (fay they vent. 6.), and let this ruine be under thine band, that is, he _thou. our Prince,and take charge ofus ; Not I, faith he, Iwill not bean healer,for in mine houfe is neither bread nor cloathing; make me nota Ruler ofthepeople : As ifhe had Paid,. I ambut a poor man, a man ofa weak eltate.Princes mutt have treatùre and great dines to bear up the dignity oftheir places:as covetoufnets,fo poverty is very unbecoming in a Prince. The Roman: flory tells us, that when two greatConfùls flood in competition for a great employ- ment in theaffairs of that Common - wealth, one of the Senators being asked uponwhichof the two he would bellow, his Vote, anfwered upon neither : And gives this reafon, One .bath nothing; Valex Ma:a and the other can never have enough : One was fo poor that he must. 6. hadnothing to fupport.him, and the other was fo covetous that nothing would fatisfie him. Therefore,as beforeJob joyned Coun- fellers with Kings, fo here he joyneth Gold with Princes-; The next expedient for Princes to counfel and wifdom, are Gold and treafures. We find, indeed, that God gives it in charge to the. Kings of Ifrael, concerning their gatheringof treafures, that they íhould not be excefiìve (Deut. i7. 17.) Neither 'hall hegreatly multiply to loimfelf filver or gold He doth not. fay , your Prince or your King (hall not multiply filver or gold, but he'hall not grtntly..multiply filver or gold, that is, he (hall not let his heart, Upon tjiem, or think he never bath enough,henull not greatly do it, but let himbe careful to do it proportionably to his occaitons,, either ofpeace or war. CZ Further it is added, Who fill their houfes with tre:eftre. The áBeanbusUOi word which we here tranflate. treafure, .isordinarily, translated app tr:u,, deer
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