316 Cfìap.g. An Expofition upon the Bookof jQ B. wit. f 23 them. But we, andmot' ofthe learned Hebritians, keep c!ofe to the affirmative, If thefeourge (ay fnddenly, he will laugh at the tryarit ofthe innocent. There is a difpute, axbom we are to underftand by this He for vS irie di force taking his laughingand deriding m the broadctt fenfe,thutk . dameft gut it too low anddifbonourable to be afcribed unto God, and there- .gamet vi,lè)ù for,. they carry it down low enough, afcrtbing it to the devil Iy tiusdiu- if thefcouvge flay fa"ddenly, then the devillaugheth tofee the upright rime na ü tr el he makes merry with the fortows oftheSaints : the devil cru +ri.Cajet. hat!) no great caufe Clowmuch mind foever he bath) to laugh, confìdering his condition ; but the meaning is, that which gives the devil molt con tent,is tofee the righteous perfous vexed. And that's a truth As there is joy in heaven, when goodmen farrow for fin ; fò there itjey in hell, when goodmen are enwrap with the far- rows offuffering. Others make the antecedent to Het a wicked man ( Inch are flet "tu ju¡1"1 within one degree ofSatan his children) If the ceterge flayfuel , uilantur maul f isuplicitue. denly, then, the ungodly, who yet thrive and profper, rejoyce and make ijort at the tryal of the innocent ,; See what thefegoed, ho- nef},innocent men have got,they thought by their prayers andfztings, by their zeal and flrianef's to exempt themfelves from thefe common ooi,rtions_thy prefromed theyfhouldbefeared, though a the world were confumcd,but fee they are destroyed as well as others, they finart under the lajh,as well as we their neighbours,whom they. lookedupon, .a.rthe onlywhipping flocks, when afeourgefhould come. That wick ed men laugh and deride the innocent under affliction, and leer . them wirh,T / here isyour Godnore?what's become ofailyour praying andfjlin? ? Where are the hopes an4 confidence, the priviledges arid, protce "lions ye talked.rf? ? is a truth. But thirdly, We need not eafe the text thus, nor rcleive it out Ofthis difbeedry,by faftning the interpretation upon ìvickedmen. Lt us take the relative to be God himfelf, and fee hòw we can molae the fenfc out, with afeving to hidhonour. Ifthcfcotsrge fl,y f.r. r 'y He, that is the molt holy and gracious God,lattgbeth at the trti ofthe innocent. How fo ? t'irft, 1 pretnifè this, God doth not laugh or deride properly at the afllitions ofhis people. No, the Lord is a tender, a gracious and a merciful father to his pt ople at all times, and moil tender Of them; when they are in their affliecions, when they are in their foreuefs, and in their furrows he ismore tender then the molt tender-
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