a 43 Verf. 3, ,4 Expo/4;o.; upon the Book of J o a. CÎap. 36, true, but every man a lyar ; au it is written , that thou mighteft be i4i fled. in thyfayin s, aid r,mióhteft overcome when the art judg- ed. As if David had faid, according to the Apofiles reading out of the Septuaginr,, ( which yet as learned Beza in his Annorati- t;z,,x ons afi: meth, ought to be expounded actively, as if, P fay, David tt.rin=c-wui c,, had thus expreifed himfelf) Lord,l know Tome men will take the aartemoo q[tïr boldnefs to qs efiion thee, yea and to condemn thee of rigour, doe: judñ-io re' when they fee thy afflioîing hand heavy upon me ; therefore, ei cePio then to prevent fuck t ell' "? rain judgements of manor that thou mayefl "c gaine the day, and have the better in the opinion ofall good and (tg c;r, a Hbræ- H rendeant, wife men, over thy Judges, Behold, I here freely confefs my Eez: inRom; great fin, with all the aggravating circumftances of it , and fure- 4 ly. they who know,or Chall.hear,how greatly I have finned againa thee, cannot but jultifie thee,how great foever my fufferings may be. To fpeak thus is to ascribe righreoufnefs unto God,in all that he Both, whether with refpe6 tohis publique judgements upon Nations, or particular,uposa perlons, in any way of affíiion he is, pleafed, and feethneed, to exercife themwith -. Md the reafon why job was herecharged by Elihu as a perlon not giving righreoufnefs to Cod,rvas,becaufehe did not fit down quietly and patiently underhis hand in fufferings, but muttered ind complained as a man unfatisfied with, though he did not o- penly murmur againf : the dealings of God with hitn. To give righteoufnefs to God, is not only, not to accuie him as unrighte- ous and unjuft , but to thank him for, and honour him in all that lie doth,or to fpeak good of his Name, under all our futferings of evil. Further, toafcribe righreoufnefs to God, is ro ju(ìifie him, though he give never fo much profperity co unjuft and wicked men ( Ter. z a. I. ) Righteooee art thou, O Lord, when "I plead with thee ; yet let nee takke.. with thee of thy judgements. wherefore doth the wayof the wicked : profper? whereforeare all they happy that deai.;very treacheroujly ? Some begin to think, fuielyGod is not righteous , when theyfee the unrighteous profper, and at ref, while righteous ones are affIliked with continual hurries and troubles; but whatfoever God doth with us or ours, whatfoever peace he gives to wicked men, whatsoever trouble tógood men, be is frill righteous; and to acknowledge this fincerely, is actually to dowhat Etihu undertakes to do, even-to afcribe righreoufnefs rp. our /Water. Md furely that knowledge will quit the cost, though
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