574 Chap. 34, s4n.Expofition opon the Book, of j ó B. Verfyi 3. Judgement ? fo that, if at any time, we have any unbecoming ttoughtsof the Juftice'of God , either that he of li&s the good without reafon, or profpers the wicked again(} it ; all this arifefh; from our ignorance, or the fhortneffe of our fight. We have not a full or perfect protpe6 ofthings, we fee but a little way back- ward,we are not wife to compare what's pal+ with what's prefent, nor can we at all infallibly forefee any thing future, or difcerne what fhall be. Whereas God at once bath all things before him, he feethwhat is pail as well as what is prefent, and what £hall be het eáfter,as well as what bath been, and fo the compleatneffe, and indefectibilityof his owneJuftice in all. And whenwe in the great day (hall fee all the workes. of God in the world brought and prefented together as in one view,we fhallthen fay from the evidence of fight, as now we ought from the evidence of faith, that theAlmighty hack not in any one thingperverted Judge- ment. And therefore the Apoftle doth mofc excellently and ap- pofitely call that day, The day of the revelation of the righteous judgment ofGod( Rom: 2..5. ) Ebhss having ftrongly afferted, with ayea furely, that, the Al- mighty will not pervert judgement, yet ffayeth not in a bare ( though fo flrongan) affertion, (which hemight) but gives us the proofe and confirmation of it ; as he bath denied that God will, fo he proveth by undeniable arguments, that God will not doe wickedly, that the Almighty will not pervert Judgement. And this he doth in the next or i 3th verfe', and the two that follow. Verf. 13. Who bath given him a charge over the earth ? or whohaieb difpofed the whole world ? Thefe words, (as was intimated before) are an argument proving that God neither bath nor candoe wrong That ( as to the cafe in hand) he had not done Yob wrong, yea, that,( asto all cafes) he can wrong no man. This argument is grounded upon the foveraignty, fupremacy, or abfolute authority of God over all men. The fumme and force of it may be gathered up into this forme.' Hecannot doe injuiice to any , who of right hath an abfolute power arifing fromand refiding ¡n himfelfe to doe what he wilt with .or towards all men. Bat
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