590 Verf, zo, n E.vpoftiara opon the B00k, of J o B. Chap, 37 . , may cauCctblame, and bringhis dirpleafure upon us. There are a fort of Tale- bearers very odious in the fignr of dod ami all good men; fuch are fpokenof, Prop . z i. = 3. Prov, 18 But ,hey who bring reports ro God (as ;jofephdid to his Fahey Jocos;, concerning his brethren, Gen. 37. z.) of the evils door by men, filch Tale-bearers' (if I may Co call [hero ) do but ..heir duty; and as their reports are accepted with Go?, fo they hal. }.'n wrath upon evil men ( Luke 18. 7 .) Shall it de tolti hint elm, Ifpra? Ifa nOno fpeak, fore!) hepallbe fnaliors ed op. SI dixerir,Heb Thtt is, if any man fpeak, if a wife man fpeak, and if he fpeak fä1. apudJe, it- as wifely as he can, and place his words in the b_°ti o-det he can, lud a po,J yet if he shall del -i e (as fobbath done) to có:re near unto God, monem veo and plead with him, Purely he!hall 6e fwallowed op. fob, in the narrate. Pire hotreFt of thole dell es to plead withGod, did nor (as hash for- merly been noted in favour of him) challenge God ; he did not think himfelf a Match for God in pleading his cause before hint , he ( good man ) VVls far from Cuch a prerurnpruous fpirit : yet becaufehe inlíled Co muchupon that defile of pleading his caule with Vod, Elihu had 'reafon to check him in Cuch language as this,. Ifa manfpeak, fsarely he"hall befwallouoed up. ,We that are Atli and aihes maynot be fo bold with God, 'cis bell for' us to lye at his foot, and let him do what he will with us, only beg o1 that we may'improve his dealings, and profit by his corrections; if the wifef't and holiefl of men t1íá11 fpeakotherwife, Sorely they fad be Swallowed up, Theword implies, that a man fo fpeaking fhall be ruined and brought to nought. Mr. Broughton renders, Frróuldany man plead when hefhallbe undone z Noman but a mad man would fpeak in a bufinefs wherein he mull needs be ruined. We fay svell, fvvallow- ed up, that is, both he and his underltandin; (hall be utterly con- founded. This phrafe offpeech is often ufed in Scripture when a greater power undertakes a leffet: thus hire fwallowet h up Rubble, and opprelfors their poor underlings, ,David faith of his enemies, with ter& to the grearnefs of their malice (Pf56. a.Pf,57.3) They wouldfcvalevme up. Polibly they had not power enough to do it,or no fitting opportunity to do it,bút they wantednowill to
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