272 Char. 5 4)1 Expofttion opIn the Boot¿ o/ J o B. Vert. I2' feäting thepoliçies and power of their adverfaries : fo then, this twelfth verfe, may be taken either as it bath reference to the for- mer, or as a former instance of Gods wifdome and power. He dJippointeth the devices of the crafty. ] Or, he defeateth the purposes of the fubtil (fo Mr. Broughton readeth it) that their bands can bring noshingf)undly to pafs, The Apoltle in r Cor, 3, 19. fLrs the holy ftarnp ofdivine authority,upon this whole book, byquoting this or the next verse, as a proof of his dorine; For it is written (fait h he) He takes the crafty in their own counfel', 1h° He di¡æppoints the devices of the crafty (faith Eliphaz) and, He ç radice .1-1á trafìut corgi takes the wife in their own craftinefs, fah Ile difappointetl9. -I The word" lignifies to break, to break a thing to peaces : and by a metaphor, to disappoint or to defeat, o feg. , thJ because if an engine or inftrugìent, with which a man intends to portcè irri- work, be broken, he is disappointed of his purpose and cannot go turnfecit.G:ati- onwith his work ; So here; He breaks the devices of the crafty, r. poiefireddi the crafty frame very curious engines and inutruments, they lay abrogari, tine plots and projeás, but the Lord breaks them; and then'they are dJ atéd or disappointed. The word is often ufed'fot break- ¡ ingor making void" theLaw, as ral.ir9;i26: Ezra g. 3. bp- ! caufe wicked men, as much as its them lies, would defeat and dif- appoint the holy purpoft and defgneof God,in giving thofe laws. they would repeal and abrogate -the lawsof God, that they might enat their own lulls. They would db that by the will ofGod 'which the Lord clothwith their wills;' Malt anddifappoint rntErvi The devices.3 The Word which we,trattflate devices, fignifils el ralicdtlirl not barely cogitation or thinking, but eáccogitation,or liudied think- Cogitavìt, cx ing ; not only a natural thought, but an artificial thought, or cogítatit, de" thoughts made up and formed after long debate of a bufìnefs in ewtat opaa in- getúofum, in-our own breasts z This is properly expreft, by devifing. Thöfe lemon artifi poolc-sof water in the 7th.Cant.ver.4. are called from this word, dun, qui} ar_ 7 he $Doles in ILAbon ; Come take Idefhben -for a City (Num. 21. aft wnf'per. 26.) and fo it notes the place where thofe pooles°were : Others co3itat ènetr. * ii,jr ,orth translate it thus, * fools artificially made ; And we may observe on ifs: Cant' much skill and curiofity`ufed,inmaking pools or vv So (Exod: 28. 8.) the holygirdle which was made for theHigh- Frieft, is called a curious girdle ; it is from the fame root'; be- caufe' that girdle was made of cunning work, and exiuifite em b oydcries. fo that, this word notes the very fpirits and quin- to ence of finful wit, drawn out for the deviling of evil. In the
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