264 Chap. t2. An Expofationupon the BookofJOB. Verf.c7 with knowledge and underfanding.. Hemaketh them to lye down irk greenpaftures (of found doctrine) he leaded; thembefide the Rill waters offpiritual confolation. I-Je will open thegatesoffal- vation, to a righteous nation who love the:truth (ifa.a6.!.) They arehis , and none that pluck them out ofhis hands ; they,fhaIl not be left, either to the cunning.craftinefs ofdeceivers,or to the rough violence ofoppre(%urs. And though luch as publifh and receivexhe truth may fuller for it, yet they fhall n vet ioofe by.. it. Truth isfuch a commodity au never broke the buyer, what ever it coil- him. JOB Chap. 12 Verf. I7,i 8,&c, He leadeth Co#nfelloiars arrayfpoiled, and ntað the Judgesfools. He loofetb the bonds of Kings, dnd girdeth their loins with agirdle, &c. 3OB inffteth upon his former argument, to,illuftrate the po= wer and wifdom of God. He had done it in natural things at the i5:hverte, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up. He did it incivil and fpirituahthings, at the i6thverfe, Thedeceived and deceiver are his. In this context he enumerates more di- ftindly, the leverai forts and degrees ofmen , Whom theLord by the wonderful adminiíi.ratioofhis power and wifdom, fets . up or,cafts down. In the former verfewe heard ofdeceivers inReligion,and of deceiversnin policy of.Church-deceivers, andof Stare-deceivers. The inflances given here are about the latter : we may call them . Stare-hereticks, deceiving , or being deceived in the miníftry of juftice, to'Kingdoms and Common wealths. And becaufe the Yerftau his intent ofyob is to (hew the mutations ofStates.tndKingdoms , quing; defcribi- therefore -he fpeaks of thofe who are the chieffupporrers , the tur enonarevict molt eminent pillars ofStates and Kingdoms. Ofihefe henames Ffatiorzta;tuer- r. Counfellors. 2. Judges. ,, Kings; in whofemifzarriages fio, Merr. whole Kingdoms mifcarry. It
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