55z Verf. t6. an E.tpofitionupon the Book of J e B. Chap. 37. and goings, or doings of the Juff. The pathes of the Juff come often into very uneven ballances in this world, every one will be weighing them, one gives this judgement of them, and another that,few hit right,the moll of men being either b`:inded with igno- rance of them, or prejudiced with malice againfl them : But the comfort of the jufi io, the moat upright weigheth their path, and will give the jut/ weight of them. Fourthly and lafily, (;od weigheth thevery fpirits of men. Ali the wayes of man are clean in hie oaan eyes, but theLordweigheth the fpirits ( faith Solomon, Prev. 16, a. ) l he Lord lothnot on- ly weigh actions andpathes, that is, the whole outward courfe and teneur of our liver, but he weighs our fpirits, that is, the princi- ples fromwhich our a&ions flow, and by which we are carried on inour pathes; he findes one man to be of a light, of a vain fpi tir,and another man to be of a proud high fpirit, a third to be of a covetous, having, holding fpirit ; a fourth of an envious fpirir, that cannot bear the good of.another; and a fifth tobe of a reveng- ful fpirit,that wil do another asmuchhurt as hecan.Again,the Lord by weighingfinds out them,whofoever they are,that haveaweigh- ty,ferious fpirit,that have an upright fincere fpirit,that have a-hea- venly gracious fpirit; God knowes who they are that have a fpirit for the things andwayes ofGod in the midfl of all contradi&ions ofmen; and having thus weighed the fpirits of men, he difpofeth of them anddeals with them accordingly. And I may add this to the que(tion in the text, Doff thou know the ballancing of fpirits ? Surely no, for thou knoweft not theballancing of theClouds ( which may be known much eafier ) The wonderful works of bins which is perfell in know- ledge. Mr. Broughton renders, The miracles of the per fet in &nowledQe. As if he had faid ; the fbiningof the tight in his Cloud, and the ballancing of the Clouds, are to be numbred among the wonde- rotr4 works of him that is perfect in knowledge. Thewonderoufnefs n fGods workswas touched at the 14thverfe, I (hall netflay upon that here ; only mark how Elihu defcribes God by a periphrafis or citcumlocution ; he doth notfay the wonderful works of God, but, the wonderful works of him That
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