Chap.a2. AnExpofitionupon the Book ofJOB. Vert 16. 261 ceivednot the love ofthe truth : For this cattle God(hall fend them flrongdelufion, that they fhould believe a lye. The delufion is of theirdeferving, but ofGods fending : They deferve it becaufe they never loved the truth, and God fends it becaufe he ever to Val: juflice. Andashe fends thefefpiritualdelufions,,- fo he likewife fends peliticad deltfons. When a people are deceived and led away from the wholefome rules of government when they have State tricks put upon them : We may conclude as the Prophet doth, tvl'en Egypt wasfeduced (Ifa,I9.4.) The Lord bathmin- gled a pervezfe fpirit in the midfi thereof, and they havc:caufrd Egypt to erre in every work thereof: Nations through the j,.nft judgement of God, run into error after error, and ftagger lake a drunkenman inhis vomit, till they fall into thepit,and into the fnare offame utter defolation. Further , The deceiver and the deceived are his ; that is, the Lord improves both, to ferve his-own ends, to bring about his counfels, andpromo his glory. We think nothing ferves the ends ofGod, but the publication oftruth ; yes , the publishing and fpreading oferrors ferve his ends too, and bring his pjärpo- fes to pats. Carnal reafon Ptartles at this , and cannot make it out. But go into the farauary , and learn what this meaneth : remember Jobs preface,Withhim is fcrength and wifdme,and you H,ncpa'er quid will be fatisbed,. The pre ace makes the doc`Irine eafie : and w:o ap pfum e,+t is not convinced that there is infinite wifedom , and a ftrait rule fapienria in him, who can regulate^the irregularity and crookednefs , the Nam ;;zi fupe- errorsand abfurdities of man ?. Who can find out the depth of Inc eft inns his wifdom, who is. able to make filch improvements out.of folly, ca á7zate p - and give an advantageto truth , by the ,breaking but offalfity : videnriazn ha_ Doth not theglory ofGod fine bright in this The queflion is bet deceptionuzn. put by iugufiine, m his 22, book ofthe City of God. Why doth dj`erro;,um nóra not God remove and fweep fin and error out of the. world ? He -Tor ,e nlfi zz fzd!e fie ns.. anfwers, It is better, andan a of -renter power to make, oér p nee } ;a1' of evil, then not tofuffer evil to be As it one of the higself atfcs ?orezíriur of grace in mrn, to r nd;rgeodtfor. evil : fo of is one ofthe bsfi- l ra disc cfi e alts ofpower in hod to drangocd out ofevil. We may well con- '"`l -ham r n°facere cuanz cline, wif ome andfirength7are his whom the craft and skill o, t m 2 1 nn- t..Pr; to deceive, cannot circun.vet , and whom thè lìllinefs and fob,-.ofinen in being deceived cannot difarpoint, In how clear a i ght doth God dwell,,yea ho- z clear a light is God , who makes Lis
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