Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. vere 22. 311 wicked men? he will íbut thall it be bathed in the blood ofnone elfe ? The next words refolve the doubt, And I will cut offfrom thee the righteous and the wicked. It is a. terrible fentence-: f word, famine, peflilence make no difference of men or manner's they knowneither faces nor hearts. The belt in a Nation may talie the bloody cup, and feel the cold Iron in their bowels, together with the worft. Thegreen tree,and the dry tree may be devoured by the fame fire, as the Prophet thadows good and bad, or as force think good and better, falling into the faine calamity (Ezek ?o.. 47.) withwhich that of Chrit(Luk;23.3I.) feems more agree- able. The basket ofgood figs goes_into captivity, with the basket of evil figs, under which the good and bad among the Jews were typed, f er. 24. I. 2, 3. But though they fall under the.fame de(trud'ion, yet their cafe under it is as different, as the perfons are. faith and holy reafon di£inguith where flare cannot. Newfatdrft Judgements upon the wicked men , are for fatisfadion to f#oria Ct nedi- the jufficeofGod. They who are heirs ofeternal death,receive part cirails. of their inheritance in this life.All their punifbmcnts arepayments, The fore- taftes and beginnings of-further forrows. Thefe judge- ments upon the Saints are only corrective or purgative. Their hopes are not defiroyed, when their bodies or eftates are) Their afliì'ctions are medicinal, and heal while they kill. Wé inuft not wrapup the difpenfation of God to different perfons in the fame apprehenfons ; though his act be the fame toboth, yet his meaning is not. How the afliétions of the wicked and righte- ousdiffer, the Reader ¡hall find more diftinc` ly opened, Chap. 17. job goes oirto confirm his opinion by a further argument, in the z3d verfe. for if any fhould deny his minor propof tion, that the Lord defiroyes the righteousand the wicked, he proves it -thus. If the fcourge flayfuddenly,_ he laughed) at the.iryall ofthe innocent, that is,he carries himfelf (fo far as the eye can judge) toward the innocent in their tryals, as he doth toward the wic- keft under greatefr judgements, He laughetb at the one, and he laugheth at the other , which words are at once a confirmation and anaggrávation of what he fpake before. Yërfe
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