Chap.i2. AnExpofitionupon the BookofJOB. Vert'. i4. 239 er up thegates cf it, and fo it carne to pafs, the I-Iiftory fulfilled the Prophecy,and the work ofprovidedce slave Tellimony to the truth of:the word. This allo is very remarkable in the ílory of Jerufalem. Chrifl threatned lerufalem that it should be deflroy- ed, aid the Temple, that thereJhouldnot be left one f one upon ano- ther , that frotel.a not be thrown down. The event anfwered this threat. The Romans ruined all, and were that abominationofdefo- latiort in the hely place. Yet in the time of 'khan, fame had a de- fign to build the Temple-and reftore Ierufalem : Yea that Apo- ftate Julian on purpofe to crois the words ofChrift, & the coun- fel ofGod, ofwhich he had heard , that There jhouldnot be left cneJcne upon another; therefore he (not out ofany good will to the Jews, or out ofany defire to have the Worfhip of God and the Temple reflored, but only in fpight and malice, to feewhe- ther he couli crois the word of Chrift , and reverie his curie ) gave the Jews ( like another Cyrus) ample comníision and full liberty to go and build the Temple, in purfuance of which grant they gathered a vafl flore of materials but when they began to work,the ftory faith,That God from Heaven by form and tern- peft did fo difmay and fcatter them,that they were forced to give Ar;rr,,,;arr it over, and confefs the hand of God was againft them ; he con- I. 6. c T founded thole builders of the Temple as he did the builders of Hi Babel, it is (in fome cafes) a dangerous attempt to build when the Lqrdbath pulleddown, but it is (in all cafes) an impojfble attempt tobuild what God refolves pall continue down. It is thus altowith private men , force have had fair eftates in the world, God puts them down, and breaks them to peeces. We ufe to fay of a man that failes, he is broke ; fuch will be trying to get up again , yet they cannot : force after breakings have had more than they had at flrfl to let up with betides their flocks of experience ; yea thefe men, befldes their experience, have added morediligence in the ufe of all honefl meanes, yet God will not let them build their eflates again he will not let them thrive in . theworld; '-Pis fo alfo with the body : God puts down a mans health and flrength, and then he goes fromPhyfitian to Phyfiti- an, he asks every one Ixmeets , what he may do to build uphis body again? yet this man muff carry a crazie body to the grave, , L e breaketh down, it cannot be built again. That's the firfi Inflance. Theffecond is,Hefhutteth upa man,and there can be no opening, The
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