Chap.9. , An=Expofttion uponthe°Bookof J 013. Verf. 24. 329. Secondly,lt is the chiraUer ofa wicked man to bribe the judge, toput out the eyes,anc) cover theflee afajudge withgifts. Agood caufe fears not the eye of the Judge, and a good roan had rather lote his caufe,thenpervert the .udge. So much ofmans covering the faces ofthe Judges now fee how God covers them. He who opens the eyes aria uncovers the faces ofthe Judges,that they may ditèern between caufe and caufe,doch alto cover the faces ofJudges, 7 that they cannot difcern between r`5`tne ant Swot om I caufeandcaufe. As the Lordhardens the heart and blindes the prod e1#, eye infpiritual things, fo alto in civil, not by taking away, the orup; fight which man had, but by with- drawingor denying his own light. TheLord covers the faces of the Judges, when he doth not give them light, nor thew them the path ofjuftice.ifGod fufpcud his light, thegreaten lightsare prefently in darkuefs. God Both not hood -wink or muffle up the Judges,by putting any thing be- fore their eyes,but by hidinghis own eyes from them.The Ptalm- ift (peaksofJudges thus covered (Pfal. 82.5.) They know not, nei- ther will (bey underfiand,tbey walkon indarknefs, all the foundati- ons ofthe earth are out of eourfe. We have here the charat$er ofe- vil Judges,and what theconfequentsof it are, They kwon, not,nei- ther will they underffánd, they walkon in darknefs ( thefe three ex- pretiîons explain the text)and what follows ? Then all the found:- tions ofthe earth areout-ofcourJe,Law andJutlice are out ofcourfe, noman knoweth where to have ri ,ht,or by whom to be protet- Hine encimus cd againtl wrong. t olót Mice, Hence olíferve, Ignorant and evil ate tent Gy Gal as ;a ari,re,a ner fcóttrge. Igave them a King in mine anger, Hof. 13. 1 c. efa, Druf. Latlly, ( for theclearing of this) The covering of the faces óf Juiexto.ttlatpf the Judges, notes three things, fïtìùse/fde- Firtl, Ignorance and blindnefs, or an inability to judge. hero Secondly,Inhumanity and cruelty. Thefacer ofthe judges being "'" covered, they will not look upon the. cafe ofa poor min. It is u- °1`ba fuall for an oppreffed petitioner to fay to the Judge, Loo upon tntracorti- k P wi natfe rvn3ina me,giodmy `Lord,caft an eye upon me;theJudge who will not fee,is re am contra covered with incompaflîon. cows cvpttts Thirdly, Covering ofthe face imports theaffeed partiality- of f ntenti.tmpro nunri.bsnt. Judges'; many do as if they not fee, as if their faces were ,. covered. Affefrfion blindes the judgemccnt, and none are fo blind ttcced, as they that will not fee. The reatbn why the Heathen piaured their fortuneblinde, was becaufe the ditturbed things, as if the U u affefed
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