254 Chap. t 2. An Exp fition uponthe B00%o fJos. Verf. tb. late, which is but the meafureof juftice. The counfels of Godare without confultation, his decrees without deliberation : he bath a41 wijdome without hudy or experience, all knowledge and evidence of things without difcourfing uponpremiles, or drawing down conclufions. And whence is this ? but becaufe with him is this cet tain rule which cannot erre. The Pope challengeth to himfelf, that, though he may erre inhisprivate a&ions as he is a man,yet as he is (inCathedra ) feated in the Apoftolick C;iair,as he is theVi- fible head of the Church, he cannot erne; his will is the rule we fee what rule iris, by the rules which it hat given. Who can fay that is clean which brings forth an unclean thing, or ftrait and true , which brings forth that which is crooked and erroneous ? Sinful a&ings (peak Fulfill men, and his a&ings have bee() fnful enough to fpeek him ( what is written of him ) The man of (in. The af.}ingsof God have been fo holy, that they declare him, The holy God, and his wayes fo wife and tuft that they\pròclaim his wit-dome to be the unerring rule of j6ftice. With him is;irength andwifdome. Job havin d thus premifed the unfearchable wifdome and b lu- pera ale frrength of God, giveth a reproof of both in the neat 3V) words, n,:av:t The deceivedand the deceiver are his. 3 The deceived, is Wive. A Man milled through ignorance or Lt {hphil erre- r p Ì ref,cit. inadvertency ; The deceiver, is atiive, he confults and plots to catch the fimp'e in his fna re : Yer the word may fignify allo to (educe ignorant!y,for as all are deceived through ignorance ( he is not deceived who knows that he is) fo fore deceive through ignorance ; f ippofing theygive good counfel, and hold out the truth, when th -y'are wt apt up in, and blindedwith the darknefs oferror.And though moft'deceivers deeeiteknowingly.& intend todo the evil which they doe, yet ignorancecaufeth fore to de- cei *e, and did they know letter they would not do fo bad. But under what notion foever any man is deceived,or becomes a de- Fx Nbats ceiver, the text cut ides them both toGod multi per faci- entern errar The deceived, and the deceiver are ¡'w. fatanam nimit, f (}hall open two thingsabout it. of ee intelli- gent. I. Who are the deceivedand the deceiver. 2. In what fence they are laid ube his that is,the Lords. Thereare Come who by the deceiver, under band the devil. who
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