222 Verf. } . eAn Expofitton upon the "Book of JO B. Chap. 36. in a degree, good men, righteous men ,may throw off the cords of obedience, and the bands of duty, through the violence of cor- ruptionand temptation,walking loofely & vainly for ,a feafon,they rra y break the bands of the Gofpel Covenant,and the cords of the Commandement, and when they do fce, God will not fpare them, but will throw them even into the bands of trouble andinto the cords of affittion; they flail know the fetters and bands of af- fliaion, threarned in the Law, when they have-not carefully kept ro the rule of the Law. Secondly , Taking the righteous in that fpecial rapacity, for filch as were once exalted, and inhigh place, or as'ris Paid in the < former verte, With Kings on the.Throne, and finding them here in fetters and bands, Note, Theworldly f}ne ofgooda of rigkteosre men, at well as others, is fubjea to change. For though that text faith, Heefablifyeth them, yet it is not to be underflood that God doth fo eltablii i righteous men in their places, that theycan never be pur out of them, or fo exalt them, that they (hall never be pulled down ; that text fheweth what God can do, hecan exalt them fo, that they (hall not be retuoved for ever,and he often exalts them fo, but he doh not fo alwayes; for the outward elatesof good men may have asgreat changes,as the outward ettate ofwicked men have : they may come from thrones to priions, and from chaines of gold to fetters of Iron. There have beenmany fuch changes as to the things of the world, even to thofe that are not of the world ; And as HeathenPrinces and Kings have often found fuch changes, fo alto did feveral of theKings of pidark,they.were brought from the throne to the'pri- fcn.Zedeleiab and Jeckgntish and Manaff'eh, had fuchfad changes ; when they highly provoked God,they came from theirThronesto the prifon, froma Crown to the cords of affli6lion ; yea this bath been the lot of manyother righteousmenexalted,they have been brought to the prifon, and laid very low in this world. Solomon faith of one, (Eecle[. 4. 14. ) Out of prifon he cometh to reigne, and of another he faith in the fame verle, He alto th4t is borne tn" bes Ktngdome becometh poor ; fuch viciffitudes and revolutions, come over the heads of the children of men, yea good men are not exempted from fuch changes and revolutions. Therefore be cé:i r
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