45 Chap. a o. flu Expoftion upon the Boob, of J O B. tderf judv 1.1 as they are. God bath (indeed) an infinite largenefs Of a f edion topoor linnets, and the lap ofhis garment of love covers every day a multitude, yea many multitudes alias. But he doth not this, becaufe his love to the perfons offending hin- ders his eye from Peeing, but becaufe his Son having fatistìed his jullice for the perfons offending, he turns away his eye from fe- jog their fins. God proclaims himfclfat once, The Godpardoning iniquity, tranfgrefon and (in,and that will by nomeans acquit the gùilty (FAA. 34.7.) There is.nothing but the name of his Son, and ofhis Son tottering, which turns luseye from fin. He will c- fpy andpuni1h , or efpy to punith all our faults through all other titles and interdis whatfoever. Again, Maus judgement is clouded by wrath and malice. Fie cannot fee the innocency of thofe he hates, or do them julîice to whom he bears no alfeftion. The want of love hinders an eye of fltlh, as much as the inordinacy or excels of it. But though the Lord be angry and dilpleafed with man, yet he wrongs no man. 7be wrath of man cannotarorktbe righteoufítefr ofGod, but the wrath of God works rigbteoufreJs. He never gives more then right to thole he loves troll, ilor Ids then .right to thofe he hates troll. That which we.call paflion m.God, is at`ted with highctt reafon, his an;cr.ne.vcr errs. a. Man is much fwayed in judgemen: by the power, pomp and fplcndof of men. We are apt to think they have molt worth in them, who are worth moli.And that they are good, with whom all's well. Even the Saints are toucht with this infirmity : The Apollle Jame r(Chap.2.2 3,) befpeaks them thus, If there come into your .Affembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel, and there come in a poor man in vile rayme nt, andye have ref pelï tohim that weareth the gay cloatbing, andfay unto l,,int, Comeandfit here by me in goodplace, andfay to the poor, Stand those thcre,or ft here under my footflool:, Are ye n t p trti.311 in your Pelves , and Judges of evil thoughts ? that is, arc ye not condemned in your fèl ves, and convinced in your own confciencts, that you do evil, and fo that your thoughts have been evil, which moved you todo Wean you chufe but,jndge this an evii thought,to think him the bell man that wearcth the bell clothes,, and him a vile.perfon that is in vile apparrel ? thus men, yea good men may mif- judge of men. Eut the Lord feet) not as man fceth, it is not good clothes, but a good heart ; it is not a go'd ring, but a golden convcrfation which
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