Chap: 3 - An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. IS. 4,z9 giveif over, nothing but death cari fufpend and flop Nature. There are indeed two cafes wherein wickedmen ccafe trou- bling,while they live. One is, when they are defperate in their deigns, and fee they cannot by troubling themfelves, trouble o- thers fuffciently , when they cannot have their will nor compals` their ends fully; they being in defpair of doing the inifchief they would, will do nó more :. So the Hiflorian notes concern Ex, imtnrn. ing Dioclefian , the moll bloody perfecuter that ever the Church 14áw DiórtrJr had", at the lift he gave over the Empire, and declined the Go- anur,n eriamdáá vernment ( not becaufe he was weary of perfecuting, but he lore motum was weary of being difappointed,) Becauf e he fare he eould not fire, to imperi. ur,k":époreret, batch that which he had long brooded, or bring forth thofe defign: tum per,,ner be had contrived for the utter extirpation of the Chrifiian.r : Be.- fG o, ing thus out of hope to do all the mifchief he intended , he puts diet ea, himfelf out of power to do that mifchief, refigus the Empire,. contra chri;lì. A fecond cafe,wherein-wickedmen ceaté troubling, is when theyf;"rsrC r} have fully attained their ends in this life ; fometimes they bring, Pcz Mc i,;r their work to ihch perfeElion, to fuch a period, that they think. t ;,lor.Pf; . they have attained all, all their plots have taken, all's theirs and when they have done the Devils work, then he gives them. a play-day, they have fome ceffation : But otherwife, except in. thefe two cafes , they never cea {e from troubling : therefore the Apoflle Paul, Gal. 5. 12. prayeth, that they which trouble them, might be even cut off: As if he had laid, they are fuch a kind of men, there is na curing of them, theywill never have donedoing 7uirr snore ti mi.fchief, until they be cut off by death. ' As-God threatens death , ñinaz rs e(l to- deter men from fin, fo fometimes he is (as it were) conflrain- pelts ho'oi i ed to fend death to keep or take.men off from fin ; A - godly man ` P ',r iresr, faith, If God 1111 me , yet mia I truff in him : and fame wicked <, r e P, men fay (in effect, if not in the letter) Till God 1411 us ire will infert,ur ape,-,.:- fin againff him. The P.falmill asks the guefl.ion, Pfal. 94. 4,5.; ndo ¿effe How long fhall the wicked? how long (hall" the wicked, triumph ? How long fhall they utter and freak hard things ? and all the-, workers of iniquity boafl themfelves? They break in pieces thy - people, .0 Lord. What anfwer (hall wegive, whatdate (hall we put to this, How long? The anfwer is given, Vol: 23. The Lord fhall bringupon them their own iniquity; and out them off in their, own wickedneJ : )eá, the.Lord our God fhall cut them off : As if hehad Paid, except the Lord cut them off in their wickednefs they will never, leave off doing ,wickedly. . The wicked ( faith .Hannah)
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