Chap. 36. e4so Expofit ion ups rho &ok ûj j o B. Vëri.33. 42 a redskie.fhewes concerning fai_ weather ) and in the morning it will befeel weather, for the sloe is red and lowring. When th:: skie lowres,or,as here in Job,w :en the Ckud coined) bet Neen us and the light, that tellsus it will be foul weather. Now, faith Cht la, do you think that God hash given us fuch warnings about changes in natural things, and bath he nor given figns which may fore- lhewchanges in other things, t hick more concerns us ? Therefore Chrift checks them in the ;d verfe, 0ye hyrrriter, ye can difcern the face ofthe rke,andcan ye not dpern theSign; ofthe times, that is, what changes God will mike in the tunes ? As if he had laid, if you were w re ye might difcern the tins of ruine ap- proaching to you and your City. A dreadful black Cloud of de- firuEtion hung over the City of ferafalem at that time, as Chrift had fore-told them in feveral places of the Goffel : the time is coming ( faith he) when there fhaR not de left onefloret uponano ther; yet you cannot fee the figns of thefe things ; you are very skilful to difcerna fair day & a foul day (there are natural l3rogno- fticks of there things) but ye hypocrites cannot difcern the figns of the times : Do ye not think God bath given you warning, bath he not fore- :hewed what he will dowith you and with thisCity?if ye Were wife ye might underftand that {worn y it will be over- thrown,and fo it was by Time Vefpatian not long after. God gives as clear }signs of the changes that fhall be in times, as he Both concerning the change of the weather:And that's one thingwhich loth very much fore-(hew it, when God puts it into the hearts of his Minters unanimoufly ro fore-warn approaching trot:bles. Such warnings were given to Hiernfaleiw, not only by Chrift; but Jolephus, lib. afterward by others_ yofephvs in his f-liliory reports of one that 7. C. I2 . de could not by any puni(hment be ftopr from crying up anddown hello 7udairo, the City, for feveral years, after this manner, A voyce from the eafi, a verse from the weft, a voycefrom the four winder, a voyce againf$ Jersefalem, and a voyce againft the Temple. There was allo (as the fame Author reports ) a voyce head in the Tem- ple, Let to depart hence. The Jeives generally would not be- lieve thefevoyces, but went on and were angry when any told them of a Cloudcoming over their day, yet they found them all verified in the fubver(ionof their city, by the Romans Such fore- warnings were given the Palatinate, and other parts of Germany, before thofe great evils came upon t hem. Some way or other. God I ï i hath
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