Chap.12. An Expofition upon the 8óo%áf JOB. Verf.t6. 25,3 Henceof Gad. With GLd is being, with him is the moil glori- ous being, all the excellent beings that are tcattered through the world, are fitmm'dup, and united inGod, yea they are all but fo many fireams, and beams iffting from this everfíowing Significrtt cer- fountain andglorious Sun ofbeing. Fourthly, This word lignifies ram tegem6, alío the rule, or the certain law ofwifdorne and judgment : Not rationetn ad only that wifdomewhich a&ts in man,but the rule by which that 4uá'n omlti, wifdome aas. The reafon of government, or che mea(ure by Cuñ:w;for ten which all things are to be governed, lies in the boforne of this Tufcijah word.- Here alto another fhiuíng truth breaks forth from un- tria p,:rpetu.: der the clouds ofthis expreflion ; With him is Inch trifdo:me as is m'vÒnf onir.ie the rule and weaPure ofall things which are done in wi[dome. Job f "Lundum vo- being to (peak ofgreat things t}od, that the deceiver and deceiv- tnteroenreateme r'tenrèm. foam A. ed are his, that be loofeth the bonds ofKings, &c. had but need- to Rab. Abra. put this preface to ir, with God is the tneafure, the. reafon of allTeri!. things. Robare qu7dc;n Thus we have found there .words in the Original, far more 'ritet, frdrnre fruitful and extenfive in fence, than chore tared for ftren th ant; I"( 'tram certe wifdome at the 13th verfe. g t ge d7 regime ac R'7< <a[1J From the !aft intepretation, take this Note , That the will of fc rrnc,la o.muie God, or God himfelf, is the rule ofall things. guberr:ar. God hash not -a rulewithout hi;n,but within him,it is himfelf.'err u.is ofiga, In this he differs from the belt ofinen : Man hath a rule,but the di optima & rule is one thing, and the man is another; the law is one thing, fi .firma TJei' and the King is another : But God and his rule are the fame his v:»trtnrar par- will and his law are himfelf,this renders him excellent in digni- tun. m ui,vpfe ty, The Lord over all. Tyrants make their will their law, hut r,,na "erf what is their will ? Their will is crooked, a leaden, Lesbian rule, partim quip: ¿flee which turneth.and changeth, and will fafhion it felfto any ocr jus haber inom- cation or immergency : their wills are diftorted and turned this "1a ; 9u'Fpe Vie wayand that way,even every way. And therefore it muff needs ipl`uc fun Cec, , produce tyranny for a man to mike his will his rule, becartfe his will hash not an everlaffi lg reecitude and firaituefs in it. But the Lordmakes his will a law, and there is no tyranny, nothing but juftice and equity in it. It impoffìole for any law to be made fo ftrait as thewill ofGod is, it is impoffble togive a rule fo holy as Gods v, ill is. If we could have a fupreamMaifttate whole will were as holy, jolt, and good; as any law : It were rea- fun his will Mould be the law : B:it this cannot he; therefore it is the prerogative of God alone, whole will is (as we hase described) the Original of juftice, and fo more than a K k 3, ]sw3
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