Chap. 9. An Expofition upon theBook,of J O B. Ver6 25. }3 3 3 Thirdly, Obferve, That, No creature is wafter ofhis own wages or ends. The Lord giveth the earth into the hand of the wicked. Mau cannot get the earth into his own hand, let him be as wicked as he will The Lord covers the faces ofthe Judges If he enlighten them, no man can cloud them, if he open, no man can ¡hut. No creature can do goodwithout the directing and enabling hand ofGod. No creature doth any evil without the fupporting and over- ruling hand ofGod.(Ifa. 41.23.s Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are Gods, yea, doe good or evil, that we may be difmayed, andbeholdit together. Let us feeyou do any mi¡cheif, ifye can. Man is fet upon mifchief, but he cannot aft mifchief, uniefs God (at leafs) permit. We were in an ill cafe, ifman coulddo all the evil he bath a mind to. It is matter ofcomfort, to confider that the wayes and iffues of good and evil, are in his hand, who is good, and Both no evil. J O B Chap. 9. Verf. 25, 26. Now my dayes arefwifier then a poll, they flee away, they feeno good. They are pafféd away as thefmiftfbips, as the Eagle that hateth to theprey. PrHefe two verfes are a confirmationoff obs former argument 1 as hehad ¡hewed in generali, that the wicked are exalted, and theinnocent afifked ; ¡ó now he thews the latter¡branch from his own experience or example. Verf. 25. Mydayes are fivifter then a poft, they flee away, they fee na good}&-. We have here three fimilitudes, by which Yob Pets forth the uncertainty of his profperous citate, and how foon the time wnerein he enjoyed it was blown over. t, The
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