Chap. ç. An Expefition upon the Book of J OB. Nerf. t 3, 291 and vehement wraftlings; As if filehad Paid, I have ufed great and earncft endeavours, both with Good in prayer, and all other means,as a wraftler by might and flight, to obtain thefe bief- fìngs(given before to my fì(ter)and now I have prevailed.And it No);,",:', line_ isobfervable, that the Hebrews call an extraordinary cunYi grify;geminarir, wrafler, Petbaltbol, which is this word doubled in the latter ut Wino va- fyllable: becaufe he is a man ofa doubleor extraordinay skill inidaelca 4 ua wraflling, the word is doubled : and fo it expreffes one that is f lidpitaofignï- double wieted,ar that bath craft eY :ugh for two or cheat though rot pew. bonefly ensued, for axe. And this word is applied to the Lord him- conrorruptica- felf (Pfal. t 8.26.) `with the froward thou wilt fbew thy [elf froward: to'. tirar hoc That is, if men will be winding and turning , and thinking to verb:, at indi- catch others, or over-reach the Lord himfelf, with trick, and "cuff maxim: turnings of wi ,the Lord will meet and anfwer them in their quddam&in- own kind, he can turn as fait as they, he can put himfelf into viEia Deiquaft fuch intricate labyrinths of infinite wifdom and facred craft, as diflorrio,impü. jhal1 entangle and enfnare the moft cunningwraftler or tumb- ler of themall. He will Cretize tbe,Crettant,fupplant the fupplan- aver*pra- ter: of bitpeople, vo:, ardordi. Someof the Greeks * interpret this elegantly by a word in flortor,q.d.ad. that language, noting a thing that bath many knots, folds or eru ç twifls,wreathesor plans in it, as plaited hair, or a folded gar- ment; thereby fhadowing out men like a ferpent, of knotted, fratuflatorc, twitted, enfolded fpirits, men who wreath and plait their afti_ varè lu&arur ons fo clofely and artificially that few can underhand or tell Deng,fupp /an what to make of them, or where to find them : The counfels t at. oretfup- ofthefe cunning, intricate, froward men ,olrmpredorue Arecarried headlong.] leis very obfervable(Ifa. 44.2 ç)how the vOrtit waeJu Prophet threatneth,that the counfel, ofthe wife fhall be turnedback- WÀótteg, h,omi- ward ; And here, their ceonfels ¡hall be carried headlong, that is, nesvarior, n°- froward.God hath wayes ofall forts to crois ungodly policies : ,ntr caror. he turns them fometime backward, and fometime forward, by both or either they are difappointcd Counfels,arc turned backward,when the event is quite crois to the defign,or the mo- tion of things.to the refolutions of the mind : As if a man pur- pofing to go Eahward, fhould be turned about (he knows not how)withhis face into the Weft : Counfels are carried head- Omne corfii - iong,when they go too fall forward,and make fo much haft on umeap;atum in their way,that they tire and areout of breath or humble i "ri "ati°n° and break themfelvesbefore they can attain their lourniesend. Rb ueoji. °'f P Ti: c
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