256 Chap. 12. An Éxpo f tionupon the Boo&ofjog. Verf. t 6.. knew not any thing, namely, of Abfalomi intent ofafpiring to his fathers throne: They were meerly catcht, and furprifed with his w.)I ejy infinuations. Politicians are t.kii'd to put fair wizards upon foul faces,and cover their wicked defignes with honeít pre- tences. Thefe are flare,fopbiflers, their fully is to put fallacies and cheats upon the common people. All theft deceivers, and they who are deceived by them, are comprehended under this general affirmation, The deceived and the deceiver are his. How his ? ti.'" The Hebrew is rendred,or rather paraphrafed three waies. i. Ajar vei er vet They are of him. 2. Tohinz. 3. From him. We tranflate,they are .raj eo efi e pans his, and that may include all three. Yea there is a fivefold bis,' &erra'efar?- which d may hint toclear this point. ens. 1\4ci . Firft, His by creation. Secondly, His by polldfiion. Thirdly, His for ufe and fervice. Fourthly, His by ofdominion or difpofal. Laftly, His by way of fpecial affe&ion andappropriation. The two former ofthefe are two little for the point : For, to fay the deceived and the deceiver a-e his, by creation, is indeed to fay nnuhing peculiar to this point : for fo is the earth,and the fèa, and the ftorms,and the winds,every thing is his,they are all Gois creatures: And fecondly, to fay they are his by way of poffefon, that he is the Lord and propriater ofthem, this alibis too little, for fo (Pfal 5 o.) All thebeats of the forrel1s areis, and the cattle upon a thonfand hills. To fay no more ofthis deèeiver, and the deceived, then you may fay of the beafis of the field, or of the fowles ofthe air, or of the fifties in the fca, that the Lordi3 the maker and poffPtfour of them, is below thepurpcfe of job, and the honour of G.-d. And as tEhefè twoare not enoítgh,fo the 5th way ofbeing his,ís two xnuch,for they arenot his byway offpeci- al affe&ion and approps iation. That's to great a priviledge for the deceiver and the deceived: for fo only ( among men) the Saints are his. There are Gods peculiars, and beloved ones, as . he fpeakes ofhis people Ifrad, toMofes, Exod.19.5. Now there- fore if ye will obey my voice and keep my covenant, then ye Jhall be a peculiar treafure unto rite above all people, for all the earth is mine. And though it be poflible for many that are de- ceived, and for force who deceive at prefent, to be his-, even in this way of fpecial appropriation ; yet this too high
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