Ghap.g An:Expoftion upontbe Bookof] O B. etf. 2¢. 33 nefi. God can leave men to their injutlice, without any thought in, or touch of injutlice in himfelf. Others iuteerprrt this Qeflion as a challenge ; It is thzts, /f it t e Si nott ubE efl, not, where; andwho is he ? Who and where's the man that will ar- gue or iniplead tue of fa?fhood in what I have afferted ? Who is it,tiquisrncpareit t hat undertakes to convince me ofcrrour in the dc6trine I have jaili ar8uei s. delivered ? This is my opinion , there pofitions I have laid down Mc., for truth, That the Lorddefiroyeth theperfell andthe wicked, that me,tir -r1 ér3 he laughethat the tryall of the innocent, that be gives the earth into fa? Page. the hand ofthe wicked, that he covereth the faces of thefudges; If it be not thus , it any one hold otherwife, Let me fee the man;Let him appear as my Antagonif.I, or Opponent. Where, and who is he that dares charge me with errour ? .I am ready to anfwer him. But rather takeit in the fenfe before given,Ifit be not the Lord who'doth.this, then thew me who it is, Where, andwho is he ? There is an elegant conciténefs in the Hebrew, which (peaks on- ly thus, Ifnot, where he ? or, who he ? The fenfe. is, If it be not God whodoth this, thewme, tell me, who is it ? And fo the words are an exclufion of any other power, ordering and difpo ring the things of the world. When old Ifaac was difappointed in his intention ofgiving the blefling to Efau, he trembled ex- ceedingly, and fpake in the language of the Text, Who, where is he? (Gen. 27.33.) As ifhe had Paid, I thought th it my SonEfáau hadfi brought me venifon before and ifit was not thou, I knizv not w!o itfhould be , I was never fa deceived in my life, if it was not thou. Such a broken fpeech job ufes here, If it be not"God who doth thefe things, I ammuch deceived, for Iknow not any in the world to whom I might probably affig;: them, but only un- to him. You muff be wirer then I ifyoufind any thus powerful! betides God. Ifnot, where, andwho is be? Whence obferve. Eirff, That , the greater( confu,ions in the world are ordered by God. What greaterconfufion then this, to fee the earth given to thofe whodeferve not to live upon the earth ? that they fhould rule the world who are unworthy to breathe in the world ? Yet eventhefe things are difpofed by theLord, and are the iflucs ofhis counfels, That whereinwe fie no order receives orderfrom the Lord, Ll to 2 Secondly,
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