Chap. 3. An'Expofttion upon the BookofJ OB. Verf.. 17. That wickedmen are troublers both of themfelves and others. There the wicked ceale from troubling, as if thewicked did.no- thing in the world but trouble the world. As before job had gi- ven the fpecial charafker of great ones and Princes, They get gold, build,Palacesand Sepulchres, and fill them with treafire: So whenhe (peaks of wicked ones , he faith , There the wicked ceafe from troubling: as intimating, that while they live in the world, theyare a perpetual trouble to the world. The Prophet Ifaiah is expref , (Chap.i17.2o.) The wicked are as the troubledSea, that cannot refl.; theycan do any thing better then be quiet,they have not firength enough to fit ftill,..they cannot reJt. King Ahab had this apprehenfionof Elijah, (i King. 18.17.) when the King- domof Tfrael was full of trouble, ( for God did vex them with great adverfity;) Art not thou he ( faithAhab) that troubleff Ifrael ? No faith Elijah, .( who could make up a better judgment thenAhab in that point) Iam not he that troubleth Ifraer , but it is thou and thy fathers houfe. Ahab had fold himfelf so work wickednefs, and fo had flock enough to purchafe trouble for If: rael ? wicked ones are the troublers of all ; they are troublers of their own families , troublers of the places and Cities where they live,thetroublers ofa whole Kingdom, troublers of the Churches of Chrift, and the troublers of their own Souls, they are born to trouble both allive andpaffive, they love to trouble, and they have what they love : It is the charaEter and the argument of an extreamwicked man, to be a troubler ; Even as it is a great argu- ment ofgreat grace, when you fee one a comforter of others , or bufie to help others,to do good to others ; The tree is known by the fruits. Secondly , Taking the latter words of this Verfe, (.There the weary be at reft) for thofe wicked menwho are wearied by trou- bling others, wemay obferve, That wicked men by troubling others, do as much weary and tire out themfeives; And though they find that in troublingo- thers they weáy themfelves, yet they will not give it over, they will trouble flit. job faith thus ofa wicked man, in the fifteenth of this book, vest: 2o. The wicked man trávelletb with pain all bis dayes ; not only doth he put others to pain, but himfelf is in pain; and they are frequently exprefhed in Scripture as wearying themfelves, fonaetimesas weary of themfelves, fo jer. 9. 5. They weary .themfelves to commit iniquity And thou art wearied in Iii 2 the
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