'272 Ghup.12. An ExpoftLion upon the »ook,ofJob. 1,7e U. fy; tells us, that thefoolifhnefso!- Godisscìferthenman? r C 1.25. l thefolifinefs of God( namely coat wnica vain non co< n:'fo. i1h_ nets) bewifer than 'Piety hen finely the wildom of God will fbori make the witeft innong men fools indeed. Again, jobMoth not lay, Hemakes fools Judges that the Lord dotó Cometi-mes (Ifa. 3.q..) Iwit/give Children to b. their `Princes, and Babes !hall rule over then: i he Prophet (peaks not ôf Chil- dren in age, for 3ofiiab was a childe., and but eig ;e yeers old, yet a great bleffing to the Kingdom of Judah,but he means children in tmderftandireg. the fore - thought of that troubled Solomon, Eccleka.1 g. Ihatedall my labour which I had taken unv'er the Sun (faith he) becaufe I fho old leave it unto the man that (hall be after tne,andwho knoKeth whether hefrill be a wife manor afool? Kelm*, boam proved a fooïilh Prince. Now as Go . t;, p:. nifh a people makes fools Judges, fo which is more, He maketh judges fools, lee_ them be as wile as they will, he outwicteth cnem, and caocheth them in their own devices. Indices it, ffu- The Volg r Lorine reads it thus,-He brings the 7ud es into a10- rorem, Vulg. nif anent, or amazement. roe Septuagint, He brings t`enr into m pavorem, fear and trembling : Both n:_;te the fame thing, that the Lord Sept incortar- tarts them into a corfternatioi- of fpirir,and then they fa op: n bsuónena men- erroneous and foolif}i determinations. 14,) He rtting- t`s' lethapervertefpirit in the mid ì of them. They-torn giddy,or are giddy with torning,and knownot well what to do, of which way to refolve. Hence O-i1erve, Fi , That the wifell men are not always wife. God can make Judges fóols. As wifdom i thegift of God, fo is the continuance of it: And untelswereceive a fupply of wif- dom from God, we !hall quickly turn fools, and do things rather like mad men, than like men of reafon and underfLocling. We want daily wifdomfor our daily wo k, as much as we do .¿ily bread fir our daily wants. Secondly, Failings in judgment are in judgment from God, or,Çod in judgment makes men failin judgment. It is a high judgment of wrath, todífable men frond judging iii rearon. This God doth,both topunifh the fins of J:rdges,and of thofe fromwhom they judge. When a people mill in the wildorn of their Judges, when they make them god, of whomGod path. only
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