`696 Chap. 3,4. An Expoftion Upon the Book of J o B Verf.26: Pinging the Fong of Mofes, and the fon; of the Lambe, laying, & Great-and marvellous are thy worker, c. for thy judgements are .made manifeft : God bath now,(iricken Babylon his great enemy in the open fight of others ; his Judgements were right before,(they _ are abvayes right) but till then not manifeft. Davidfaith (Pfal:g° i 6.) TheLord is knowne by the judgement which he executeth : now if the Lord be knowne.by the Judgement which he execu- teth ; then the Judgement which he executeth mull be knowne ; it muff be an open Judgement ; and inch are very manyof the Judgements of God, they areatled as upon a tlage. And I may give you an account inthree particulars-why the Lord will fogne- times doe Jullice,.no the placeof beholders, or in the open fight of others. That theremay be witneffes enowof what hedoth, and fo a record of it kept, at 'call in the mindsandmemories of faith- full men for thegenerations to come. Secondly , The Lord doth it not onely that he may have wit- neflls ofhis Jutlice, but allo that his Julliceand the proceedings ofit, may have aneffe& and a fruit upon thofe who did not feele it, nor fall under it. This'was the reafon whythe Lord threatned to punifh erufalem in the fight of thenations ( Ezek 5, S, 6, 7, ian talemdid. 8, 14, 15. ) Thusfaith the Lord God,thie is 7erufalem, I havefee rue medium ter. it in the midit ofthe nations andCountryes that are round about her. re, utpote que God is fayd (1'fal: 74 , 12 .) To w rkfalvation in themalt ofthe fit inquarto chi- Earth ; that is, in Terufalem, or among his people, who were pla- mareMao au- tirbem ced as it were in the Center, and middle part of the world : not rem medio mundi that Jerujalem flood exauly in the rnidfl of the world,butbecaufe corflituram et manyNations flood, about ir, that might well be called .a City PS in loco (landing in the midi+ of the nations; and therèfore it is added zridntiut ele- ( v, b)Thos faith the Lord God, BeholdI, even Iam againft thee, sit deur,,uire er and mill execute them' ofthee, in the fight the berxia itrt et fg f fìppliciaeorum.natiolrs,, God would execute Judgement in Perufalem a Citypla- omni6ur eO'ent ced in the midi} of the nations, that as the nations had taken no- ' ic"1° rice of the extraordinary favours, benefits, deliverances, and fai- ) G varions which God wrought for ferufalem; fo they mightalfo take notice of his judgements and fore difpleafure againa them. fern,. falem was not feared in fomenooke, corner, or by-place of the world, but in the mida of the nations,thatboth the goodneffe and feverity of God towards them might be confpicuous; And that the
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