256 Verf, t a. an ExPefitien upon the Bork of J o B. Chap. 36. :17 J O B, Chap. 36. Verf. 13, T4. 13. Eut the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath,they cry not when he b.incleth them. 14... They die inyouth, and their life is among the unclean. E Lihts having put the cafeof the righteous in thefe two condi- tional propohtions laPc opened,as fomewhat doubtful,what at leaft fome_of themmay do, as to a right improvement of outward affliaions ; he proceeds in there two Verfes to thew the care of the wicked wholly defperate, in their afflition. There is an if put upon the righteous, but he is conclufive upon the hypocrite;to ,be lure he will neither hear nor obey, neither fubmit nor conform to the voyce of the rod. So that in thefe words he lets forth the common yea confiant iffue of thehand of God uponhypocrites in heart. Poffibly good men, righteous men may not alwayes anfwer the expe&ation of God, when afflietion is uponthem ; but as for hypocrites,they (al- wayes ) heap op wrath. And in this we may conceive Elihis hath a rerpe& to fob; For though he did not conclude him to be anhy- pocrite in heart; yet he put it home upon him to confider the mac- ter,whether he himfelf hadnot,at leafl,aiteci and carried it like an hypocrite in heart, under the affliaing hand of God, forafmuch as he was no more humbled and ftabdued under it.And indeed Ealm turns every ('tone, and tryeth every way, tobring down the fpirit of fob. And therefore as he had Chewed, what the ufuall effeas of the hand of God upon the righteous are, fohe tells him how, it is with the wicked in that cafe, thereby to put him upon the tri- all, whether he had nor reafon to fufpea himfelf to be an hypo- crite, becaufe his carriage, was fo like theirs. verf. i 3:4,..Biat the hypoerites in,heart, &c. That adverfative particle (hews that he is dealing upon ano- ther fubjeta : hypocrites in heart are far from righteoufnefs. I have dilcourfed fomewhat largely concerning the hypocrite in chap.34 v.3o . upon tilde words, That the hypocrite reignnot, lift thepeople
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