Chap. 9. An Expo.fttion upon the Baokof j OB. Verf. 32. 375 ed up for War; in which fenfe Saul faith ofGoliab, that he had been a man of War from hisyouth( r Sam. 17. 33.) God is a great Warriour, the moll Potent Commander, the Generaliffimo ofall the Armies in Heaven andEarth, the Lordofhogs is his Name ; He kr a man ofWar, though he is not a man. Further, when job faith,He is not a man eos Tam, he gives us the reafon of all he had faid before , efpecially ofwhat he had laid immediately before, Though I wafla myfelfwith Jitow-water, andmake my hands neverfo clean, yet(halt thou plunge me in the ditch. For he is not a man as I am ; that is, though I by wafhing my felffhouïd think I were all white, and not a fpot to be feen upon me ( as hypocrites by covering themfelves, think they are all hid, and not a fin to be found about them) yet he would throwme into the ditch again, as like to like, dirt to dirt, for he is not a man as I am, he bath other eyes, and thoughts,and wayes then creatures have. Secondly, As they contain a reafon why the Lord would judge him impure, though he fhould wafh himfclf with [now- water ; fo alfo,why the Lord would af$iet him,though he fhould wafh himfelfwith ínow- water, He is nor a man as -I am. As if he had faid, fhould I fee a man without fpot or fpeck, without blame or fault, yet full of wounds and llripes, full of troubles and forrows : fhould J fee him afided, of whom I could not fay he had finned, it were beyond my reafon. Burt though I can- not, yet the Lord can fee reafon co afflict a man in whom I fee no iniquity. He knows why and wherefore, he may and doth calk them into the fire in whom I can fee no drofs. He is not a man as. I am. God exceeds man in his adings, as much as he doth in his nature; as he is what man is not, fo he can do what man can- not; Every thing is in work¿.ng, as it is in being.God al wayes works like hirnfelf, and infinitely above man. As tothe prefent bufrnefs, he worits above man,chiefly in two things: Frrfl, Man cannot }uflly commence a lute againft, or contend with another man, excpt he be able to charge him with fome wrong that he hath done him,or lay fume crime tp his charge. Secondly, A human judge cannot condemn or call a man, un- lefs he fiat legally conviG himofhis crime Thus it is with men in their judiciall proceedings. He that contends mull know force crime ; and the judge palTes ieut;nce as he fees the crime proved and Ratioefl omni- um fitperiorum, etfr juflu;fies, eoni Dto tomen contendens pro fonte babear, quia non eff por utriufq; nafirum candi= tia. Mere.
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