178 Chap. 5, An Expaf tion open the Book of J ®B. Verf. 2 tiers hire It agrees fully in fenfe, and is they fame to a letter in found,with our Englifh word Evil; Such the Prophet (Zech, ft. 15.) defcribes r Take (faith he)the inJtruments of a foolzfbfheap- heard, he doth not mean, the infirunients Of a rude and meetly ignorant fheapheard, a man that hath no knowledge or learning, but of a rafh and imprudnt fheapheard, or of a lazie and idle fheapheard, who, thoughj1iath knowledge, yet knows not how (or bath no heart) to improve his knowledge for the good of his. flock. The Pro»het Ezekiel gives us the Charaffer ofinch, Chap. 34.4 the d:feafed have ye not Jtrengthned, nor bave ye Pealed that which was fact¿,, nor bound up tbdt which was broken, &c. but (will ye know what work they made ? ) with fury and with cruelty have ye ruled them ; ye have been moved with fury, not with pitty, and aF eel by paillon, not by reafon, much lefs by grace. So in this place,the foolifh man, whom envy flayes,is not a weer ignorant, one that hath no brains, but one hare-brayn'd anduncompos°d,Eliphaz hints at job fecretly in this word,whom he knew reported for a man of great knowledgrand learning,ac- t on 1ri plum cording to the learning of thole times,yet he numbers himwith fed calame I- fools, becaufe, he conceived himwrathful, rafh intemperate, nor refcimur in haying any true government of hiinfèlf. Anger rejteth in the ha- fcrrbendo,eum- forane offools, Ecclef. 7. 9. A fool is not able to judge of , the nature due eolíidimoe of things or times, or occafions, and therefore he is angry with frangimus, F3 peflovespc- every thing that hits not his nature or his humour. He will be recallo al_ angry with the Sun, if it Thine hotter thanhe would have it, and catores reßferb with the winds if they blow harder then he would have thern,and g3 euicunq; in_ with the clouds,if they rain longer thin ferves his turn.They that frumento qui- lábet, ex quo are emptiefl ofunderilanding,are fulleff of wtll,and ufùally !barn dfficuirarem fe of will, that we call themwì11-full. Hence, unlefs every thing be psrtarbitratur- ready to ferve their wills, they are ready to dye by the hand or Austin. judgment of their pallions. Ira ftut:átir Wrath kilts this footzfh man I Wrath may be taken here two wanes. wayes, either for the wrath of God, or for the wrath of man. In the former fenfe -the meaning is,That thewrath ofGod killsfoolifk mien ; Which is an'undoubted truth, but I rather adhere to the latter, which gives the meaning thus, That the wrath ofofolifb ,gran,: kills himfelf ,`his own wrath,isas a knife at his throat, and as á fwerd in his own bowels : The word which we tranflate, wrath, f gnifies indignation, anger, teaftintfs or touchinefs Properly wrath is anger inveterate ; anger is a thort fury, and "hart
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