332 Chap. y. Alt Expoftion upon the Bookof j O B. Vert: 24. Secondly, Obferve, The very confufions that are in the world are an argument of the power ofGod. For fceing the world continues in the midft of fuchconfufions, it (trews there is a mighty power, ballancing thefe confufions fo exlialy, that they cannot mine the world. If there were not an over -ruingpower in God, wicked men ruling wouldfoòn mine all; There are znyfieries ofprovidence, as well as offaith. And many are as much puzzled to enterpret what God Both, as what he bath fpokcn. I find Heathens oftenClumbling at this fione, and un- Cumrapiunt odd °n their idol gods at the fi bht of fuch ditlributíons among alo ,e bo g g g nabPie to men. When evil takes away good men, this is my next thought a a (faith one of them) I am follicited to ihink,there are no Gods. Ano- Sollicuar nut- therobfcrving how unequally men were buried, buries God- in lot dire Pure that obkrvation. Licinue a cruel oppreflór lies interred in a Deos. Quid. 2 1 oreo Li- Lately monument. Cato, a fober, grave , wife, and juts Sena- cinusrurnulo tour, bath a mean and poorSepulchre, fearce looking above the (jiver ,et Caro ground. Pompey the great, that famous Commander and Con parvo. querour had no tomb at all,he was buried no man knoweth where. Pocrpeiur rut- when we f e (faith he) thingsgo thus, who would thinI that there to, pia putee r aL)eas? are anj,gods? Thus they humbled at the fuppofed uneven difpenfations of their Idol gods. And we find great offence taken, and an horri- ble blafphemy belched out againft the true God, upon the fame occafion, and aimofl in the fame terms (Mal. 2. 17.) 1e have wearied the Lord with your words, yet'ye fay, wherein have we weariedhim? Whcnyefay, Every one that Both evil is good in the fight of the Lord, andbe delighteth in them, or where is the Godofjudgement ? Though they fell not direly into the former blafphemy, to coridlude there was no God, becaufe wicked men profpered ; yet they fell into a blafphemous opinion, that God delighted in, and loved wicked men becaufe they profpered, Wherein have we wearied the Lord ? Yes, ye have. Not that the Lord is at all movedor troubled in himfelfwith the contu- melious fpeeches ofinei i'5ut thus,ifany thing would tire,and wea- ry him, this may, to hear himfelfarraigned and judged by the world, as a lover ofevil men,becaufe he doth not prefently finite themwith the viliblemarks of his dilpleafitre ; that becaufe the earth is given into the hand of the wicked, therefore the Lord mutt needs be a friend ta..the wicked. Thirdly)
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