Ch,3p.12. An Expo(jtion upon the L'ookof Job.Verf.t7. It is here oblèrvable in general, that yob being to delcribe the providtuces of God in the wo:ld, dud" not middle with ('mall ntatters,a; what God doch to a private períon,or tingle families; but he deals in thole which are molt erns rnt,the tranfmutations of Kingdoms, .which fad within the obfervation of the whole world. if a particular man beundone or ruined,his next Neigh- bour takes notice of ir,but it is (carte know in the next village ; But when Kingdoms are ruined, all States and Kingdoms ring of it, filch events are the talk and wonderof theNations round about. Secondly, He cloth not inttance in the founding and eftablith- ing of Kingdoms ; wherein yet the wi dom and power of God are very glorious; but in their detin:Eton and putting down. And the reaCen is,hecautè we take greater noticeof God in pul- ling down, than we do in building up; the obferve hint more when he killed), than when he ruaketh alive ; his wichdrawings are more noted than his prefence, and we are more fenfible of our privations,than of our iojoyments. The.Stin is more looked at in an Ecliple, than when is fhineth with pureft Nth e. Futcher, He gi%eth inffance in thefe, becwule we are apt to call the mifcarriages of Kingdoms upon fecond cau"es. It was 'the pride of loch, the envy of others, the ambition of a third fort, or the unfaithfnlnefsof a fourth, which undid all ; we (eldome look up to the hand of God,w,uile we complain fo much of men. In all changes here below, job carrieth our thoughts direPtiy to God, He leadeth Counfellors away fpoiled: -Do not (fay enquiring how weakly G: unfellot s adyiCed, or how fooiiihly Judges gave their fentence, it is God that doth all shefe things, He leadeth Counfellors away fpoiled; and enaketh the judges fools, &c. More diftin&íy, 26g , He leadeth. Af,?"ert raves el extra9rdinaria quæDeruTacit, ut his tremen- dit oper:bus Q'g judreijs veter- rtrma uobis ex. cutiat. Mete. Pe 'Hebrew is, he makes them go, he makes them go whether 1't? e acieur. they w ill orno : he leadeth them from the height of their dìgni. yyi ty, intoa deipifed condition. Noman bath any mind to fuch a CarJulere,de; ; motion. 'cernere,di,be- Counfellors. rare. Confrlia- t ins eft qur i, bi Counfellors (as the word is ordinarily taken ) are (belt as'$fi vel attic dar rationcm give advice in publike affairs ; They chaulkout theway for ae ien ; agendi. M m that's
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