Gt. Chap: l. r1 'Expofrtio'n úpoti the Bookof J Ò B. Verf i5i andthey have rebelledagainji we, Ifa. a. 2. He callsHeaven and Earth to bear witnefs of thisunfaithfulnefs.Men are wicked beyond all reafon (not that there is reafon in any wickednefs, but fo we . fpeak ofall exceffes) men (I fay) are wicked beyond all reafon, when God appeals again/J. then, to things without all fence. David fatisfiedhimfelf in the evil.tneafure he received from a (hanger, becaufe he had received evil from a Son ; as greater benefits and favours fwallow up the thoughts of leffer fo do greater aflíiti.- ons, and unkindneffes. Aman hath no leifure to think ofhis dii courtefie,: whogives him ill'language; when another afiaults him to cut his throat: When Shimei railed on` David(2Sam. a 6. s o. a,) Abifhrai heats his fpirit to revenge; What faith David ? my fonwhich camefourthofmy bowels, faked, my life, howmuch more Row may this Benjamite doe it ? This itranger one of another Tribe and Family As if he had laid, I haveno reafon to be much troubled, to,hearaffranger' fpeak 'hard wordsagainft me, when my Son is tip in Armes agaioff me. to hear the one curie me, when the other would kill me Moles' ufes this argument to umpire between the.two Hebrews, Sirs,y,, are brethrenwhy do ye wrong oneto another, AE}s 7.26. It will be a mighty aggrava- tion oftin, when God (ball'fay,''My children have dealt deceitfully with me or man, mybowels;' mybrethren Mattedealt deceitfully . with met , Mybrethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook. Here is the (hadow oftheir deceit, Job explains hit-tat-elf by a fimilitude ; They have dealt deceitfully, but how ? I will tell you how, they h ave dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the lfream of o:brook,theypaf: away; I cango to the-ftreams and to the brooks, and Phewmy friends the face oftheir hearts (to me I am Cure of their dealings withme) in thofe waters. They are as a brook.] The word liignifies both a brook, and a 3 valley; becaufe brooks ufually run in valleys, thereforeone word tstifice,t hæ P reffeth both, The fame word fignifies allo- to iatberot and osämae+,désn= eLtluvsvar,( an, inheritance ; hence force joyn all the three fenfes toge- 4iartr.tortesu then in this one word, A Brook, a Valley, and an Inheritance ; eer"2114 i becaufe valleys inherit the brooks, which delcend to them from va,1k-la twr, the mountains; valleys are the heirs,or in' eritreflls of the frreams ao4Ntur which.::iffue from the hills Pf. s r o The holy Ghoft defcribes rtfgrtdo_ pract. f Y Uct bdrt .. afpringon brooks thus, He fendet fpringr into the Valleys, which
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