Chap./1.o. eA Expoftiontironthe Book.of j o s. Verf.i3. Firfl , In allufion to men condemned , whole faces ufe to be covered ; a Sentence of death being pronounced andpaired upon them , they were as it were hid from the light of the living. Thus as loonas Ahafuerus the King had paffed fentence againf Haman, they covered his face (Efth.7. S.) or Secondly , This covering their faces , may be an allufion to aaually dead men, whofe faces if they die among men,efpecially among friends,are alerayes bound up and decently covered.When Chrifi called Laz,arm out of the grave, the Text faith (John la 44.) Hecame forth , his face being bound about with a napkin. So then, to bind their faces in fecrer,is as if it had becn faid,bring them to death , or put them to death. Thus the Lord callsjob to that in three particulars , which himfelf will certainly do. FirII , To Treaddown thewicked. Secondly, To Hide them in the du.fb together. Thirdly, ToBind their faces in fecret. TheNotes which I fball give from three wordo,will be ground ed upon that three-fold interpretation of the wordwicked, And Fìril , As the wicked are taken for the fame with the proud in the former verle. Obferve ; Proudmenare wickedmen. 8ebold (faith the Prophet, Mal,4.1.) Thedayofthe Lordfkal'l burn as anoven andall the proud , and all that do wickedly,fball be fits66le. The proud,and they that do wickedly go together. The prouddo wickedly, and are therefore defervedlynunabred among the wicked.Prideis the firflof thole {even things which arean abo- mination to theLord (Pray;5.16,17.)There are fix things that the Lord hates, yea, [even areabomination tobust. A proud look,that's fin I ; and if a proud look, then c:..ainly a proudheart,and a proud fpirir. Proud perlons have not onely a chief, but the firfl place by name among chofe whomthe Lord abominates. And in that black Catalogue of eighteen forts of wicked ones, that (hall trouble the world in the latter dayes, the proud are nor the lafi nor the leafl; (2 Tim. 3.2i3,4,5,.) In the lash dayes perilous times (hall come, why ? what fllall make them fo ? The reafon follows, For men (ball be lovers of their ownfelves, covetous, boaflers, proud. Now though the proud man comes in thefourth place,by name,yet heis in
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