aa8 Chap. y. An Evpoftion urn the BSCk of J O B. Vert. i 3 ity, or aGod.(hip, and his plot was to ruine than below the beans by afpiring to an c quality with God; or tomake man lefs then he was made,by reeking to bc,as much as his maker. Now the Lord takes(as it werr)this weapon out ofSatans hands, and de- oroys himby it.Satan would have mars afpirc to be a God,that he might be ruined;and God becomes man to ruineSatan; This was obi greatefl counterplot that ever was,God took the Devil in and by his own craftinefs As if God had faid ; Satan, thou (halt fee what a fine device thou I.- aft devifed : I will meet thee in thy ownway , and turn it upon thee, 1hat wouldfl have man become God, to ruife him ; now God (hall become man, and by that I will at once ruine thy Counfels , and repair the broken conditi n ofman. Jofepbe brethren, had a device to hinder his Prophecies ; and make his dreams but phancies; ,fofepb dreamed that his brethren fhould worfhip him; they fell him fora captive intoEgypt: what moreoppofite to honour among his brethren, then captivity a- mong orangers?yet thisdeviceeff.*}ed what they oppofed;Jofepb was exalted in Egypt,and his brethren prefs'd with want, wor- lhipt or bowed unto him for bread. The Pews took counfel ro kill Chrio, and what was the mo- tive ? A wife man among them fuggefis this fear : If we let him thus alone,the Rmans will come and tale away both our placeand Na. tien ( Joh.11.48.) But the Lord took the wife in this crafti- nefs ; For that cruel aE} in killing Cbrifl ç brought the Romans upon them , The time cometh ( faith Chrso, he forefaw what would come ) that thine enemies (hall tali a trench about thee, and eompafs thee round, andkeep thee in on every fide, and they (hall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee, and tkey (hall not leave within thee one done upon another, becaufe thou knewe(f not the timeof thy vifttation, Luk. 19.43 +44. And thus as the Pfalmif ('Pjaim 64.8.) Prophecied of his 'enemies, they made their own Tongues to fall upon themfelvet. A orange thing , that the fall of_a_ mans tongue fhould opprefs his body, and whole eftate; yet fo it is, the weight of a mans tongue falling upon him crufhes him to powder. The feventh Pfau, is the paraphrafe of this point ( ver. 14.) Ile travelleth with mifcbief,and bathbrought forth a lie ; (that anfwers the 1 z th, verf. He dijappointeth the devices of the crafty ; ) He made a pit, and digdedit, and is fallen into the ditch which be made ; bit mifcbief ¡hall
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