428 Verf.33. an Expoftion upon the Bookof J O B. Chap. 36. but he went ro the Devil,to a Witch for it (t San:.z8.) Now a godly mandoth noefore-fee the evil by any fuchwayes or means, but by a diligent colle&ionof things, compat ing one with the o- ther, or by the conneaion of carafes with their effe ks, and of an- tecedents with their confequents ; by thefe he plainly fore-teeth that fuch or loch an evil is coming, even as the bean fore -fees the florm is coming by thevapou~,or that isch goethwp. Thep: udent man fore-feeth an evil approaching by way of argument. Por thus he reafons, if God be anunchangable God,if he be as holy,as juft, as powerful, as zealous, as jealous now, as ever hewar, and if tin be the fame as ever it was, if fin be as fowl in it fell, if it be as leathfome and as burthenfome to God, if it be as pernicious and hurtful to mannow, as ever is was, then furely when men run fuch and fuch finful courfes, fuck and fuch will be theeffects, fuch and fuch the fruits. Thus a prudent man feeth the effea in the caute, cae confequent in the antecedent. This was Solomons purpofe, when he faid (Ecclef. 2. 14.) The wife mans eyes are in his head. You may fa', fo are the foolseyes too ; Where are his eyes elfe ? But when Salomon faith, The wife nouns eyes are in his head, his meaning is, they are there to purpofe ; the wife man well ob- ferves and marks how things go, and whither things tend, he con- fiders how things go, and whirhe; things are going ; but the fool wall¿etb in dark oe fr, that is, hewalketh as if he had no eyes in his head, as if his eyes were in his heels, not in his head. It is faìd, (t Chron. r 2. 3 .) concerning the menof Iffachar, They were vole concerning the times,and to know what !Padought to do :They knew what the times required, and what God required in chofe times, what fpecial duties were incumbent upon them, from the difpenfaticns of God. It is a great mercy, and a great part of our wifdom tobe thus wife, and if weare nor, we (hall be found and judged more bruitifh than the bruit beall, for the Carrel alfo give warning concerning the vapour, they give notice when rain and florins are coming. Thus I have held out the fenceof thewords, as they are laid downplainly in our franflation. But there are very many differences among interpreters (as was hinted before.) in r he reading and rendringof theft words ; all which arife from forcediffi_ul-y in the Gramarical conf ruai- cm and copious fignification of the Hebrew text. I might give you
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