552 Chap. 3 q.. An E.vpofrtion upon the l;ookofJ oB, Verf.ap, CO find it fo, though he failed of his hopes. ( ter. 5.4.) Surely thefeare pare, they,are foolish ( men of low.parts, and thin in- tell l :walls ) for they know not the way ofthe Lord, nor the .jrrdg- anent. of their God. 1 willget me to the men andwillfpeake rsn ro them, for they haveknowne the way ofthe Lord, (they are wile Purely and underitanding) yet he Ras difappoynted in his re- courte to them, as it followeth in the fame verfe, but thefe have altáçether brokn the yoke, and burl the bonds. There is a naturali wifdorne which hindereth thehearing of the word, there- fore the Apofile faith ; Not many wife men after thefolio are cal led, that is, ravingly called ; the wordbath its full effeCI upon few of them, they are not prevailed with tobdcave and obey ; they are called, but they come nor. Though wifdome be an ad- vantage to profitable hearing, yet all naturali wife men doe not hear profitably, nor indeed can any, by all the tvifdome of na- ture. Thirdly, note. a man without underflandena is aheartleffe man, i?eadleffemen areheartlefemen. It is faid. (Hof.. II,) E- phraim is like afilly dove, ithont g heart. All the people of God are-or #loould be innocent doves, like doves for innocencyand, gracious fimpliciry; but howunbecoming is it that any ofthem . fbould be doves for fillineffe or fillydoves without a heart ; that is.winccur any ftirit or courage for God, and the things or Mayes of Cod. Tobe without aheart is to be without a due apprehen: lionof the mind of God, or any true conformity thereunto ; 'rid ro have no knowledge either to doe good, or to be good ; all filch are filly doves without aheart, without ' underlianding, and , all finch areyet unfit anditnprepared hearers. Hearken-to me ye menofunderfianding, Far,-e be it from ,God that he fhonlddoe wickedly, The Se.p'uaiint turnthe fence of the words into another chan- Afrt ame ro- nett ; as if E/;"hu fpake here in his own vindication, and not in ran: domino izt ; and fo they .render the Text'perfonally of Etibu ; Farce pie altere 6,c. sPt, be itfromme that Ifhouid do wickedlybefore God ; or,that 1 fhould pervert fuflice before the Almighty ; as ifElihu had raid ; 1am now tofpeake before God, or in (sods prefesce ; God being my wit- ne,e,
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