Chap.! 6. An Expofitzon upon the BookofJOB. Verf.r6. 263 IF any ask, Why are fo many milled intoerror,and poyfoned with unwholef me doctrine ? why dothnot God preferve, and antidote all places againft thefe infections ? The Prophet Eze- kiel hints us ammnfver chap. 14.. v.7,) God puniíheth one fin with another. When mencontinue in fins of practice, God lets them fall into íinful opinions. He juftly blinds their eyes againft his truth, who harden their heartsagainft his fear , and put the fumbling blockpf their iniquity before their faces. A fecond rea . lion is given by the Apoftie (a Thef, a.) He had laid , verf, ix, God (hall fend themflreng delufion, the reafon follows , it is, be.- cattletoy received notthe love of the truth : The underftanding. may fubmit, while the affeetions hand out. It is ealer to receive truth, then to receive the love of the truth. And how much truth foeverwe receive without love to it , leaves us HI under the wrath ofGod. The wrath of God is vifible in his judgments, and this is judgement in perfection, tobegiven up toftrong debt- lions. Thofe are the foreft punifhments which are made offins,., They are punifhed with the beliefof error , who love not truth. Palle dalarines are fit plaguesfor falfe hearts. And as they ílail_ be beaten with many 'tripes , who know their Papers will and do it not , fo alto !hall they who know it, and love it not ; and indeed thefe and theformer are the fame. The reafon why any Both not what he knows, is becaufe-he doth not love it, and he thatloves it, will do it, for love is the fulfillingof the command- ment. Byall it appears,, how the deceiver and the deceived are Gods. Mr. Broughton bath put the fumme of thefe feveral interpretati- ons into' his translation. By him, andfrom him, andfor ham, are deceivers and deceived. From b that is, he fendeth.them. By him, that is, he fullers and ordthem, For him , that is they promote his glory, and ferve his ends,either to try and difcover who are faithful, or to punifh thofe who are falfe. Take one noteby way ofinference from the whole. if the deceiver and the deceivedare the Lords then lively they reho lead others into truth, and they that are led into truth, are his much more. Truth tethers, and truths receivers,lye, as, inthe bofom of God , and are his by fpecialapprobation They are to him as theapple ofhis eye, as his precious jewels. Theyare his fcho- lars; he teacheth them ; he teacheth thole, that teach truth, and they who learntruth are taught of him. The Lord feeds them-.;
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