chap. 34. An Expofitaon upon the Bookof J o E. Verf. 29. 633 thus opened the afTertion of Elihu, that God regardeth not the rich more then the poore ; let us confider , The reafonof it in the next words. For they are all the work.pfhie hands. As if he had fayd, God cannot but deal impartially with all, becaufe all are the work of his hands : what reafon bath he to re- fpea one more then another, feeing the one is no more to him then t'other,they are all the workofhis hands. Man as ran is the offpr:ng ofGod ( MIs 17. 28.) He is alto the worl.of hit hands; that ts,man is made by his power ; As niandefcendeth from man, fo he is called the fruit of the womb ; but as man is the off-fpring of God, fo he is called the workeof his hands, andhis hands have wrought the poor man as well as the rich ; They are all the work of hie hands in a two-fold refpe&. Firfi , In their naturali conflitution ; God bath moulded them in the fame fafhion,he hath given each of them a body and a foul .; A body framed of the fame parts, a foule confifling of the fame powers. God bath bellowed as much care and,coli upon the ma- kingofapoore mans body and foule, as upon the rich mans. The richefi man in the world, cannot boati that he bathany one mem- ber inhis body or faculty in his foule , more then apoore man bath. Secondly , Look upon the rich andpoore in their Civil ('rate, and fo likewife they are the work of his hands : and that I con- ceive, is here intended as much as, if not more, then the former ; not only is the maker of the poor and of the rich in their na- turali fiate,foule andbody ; but as poo°,and rich, he is the maker of them ; that is,he maketh one manpoore,and another man rich, as himfelfe pleafeth. ( Prov: 22. 2. ) The rich and the poor meet together,theLord is the mater of themalt.He hath made them men, andhebath made them rich or poore men. There is as much of thepower and wifdomeof God feene inmaking force menpyre and others rich, as there is in making them men ; yea God thinks himfelfe as much honoured inour acknowledgements that the poore with their poverty, as that the rich with all their riches, are the workofhishands. H?nceNote. Fill}, Poor menareas much the workofGod as the rich. Mmmm AS
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