_. Chap. z 3..e4n Expofitionupon theBook of JoB. Verf. g, That's fuppofed by fob, As the ftrength of man prevails over humane ftrength ; foalto doth the wit and wnderftandingof marl, prevail overhumane wit and underftanding. And as Tome men Vntguspteram4 are in reference to ftrength, fo others are in reference to Linder- credit omxia handing,: children. You may mock and cozen them , i.mnofe Rue a magnis upon and delude them, even as if they were acompanyof little tienziaibxa audit., children. As many wife men are led by the multitude,fo the foolifh mul- titude are eafily led by any one, who is great inpower oremi- nent in reputation for wifdom. Two hundred men went of:cr Ab falom in theirfimplicity ,anti knew not any thing, (x Sam, 15. It.) They were not of his counfel, nor privy to his confpiracy, he deluded them into treafon. SimonMagus bewitched the people of Samaria, givingout that himfelf wasfame great one, towhoa they allgaveheedfrom the leaflonto thegreatefl, ,/aging, This :an os the greatpower of God (AE}. S. q, i o.) But he did but mock them. Such impollors and mountebanks have in all ages. put cheats upon liimpie people, not only in matters of hate , but of religion..Popiilhpriefis and Jefuites have been greaceft defigners and actors in foul -mockeries e icythefe, God harh fentfirong de- ltùfsohs among them. who have not received the love of the truth, . and they have believed lies. Secondly, Obferve, God cannot be mocked Lyman. Gal. 6. 7.- Be not deceived, God; s not mocked. Man never de= ceives himfelf fo much, as when he thinks or attempts to deceive God. He ofrre.; takes the wife in their own craftirefs, but the craft of the wife never took him.' Ia'wait ( faith Solomon) is the net fpread in the eye orfight oftheJuly bird: Ifa weak man fee the fnare he will notcome into it:There is no fnare can be fpread out ofthe eye and fight ofGod,and thereforehe will never come into any fnare. And as it is an impollïble thing, fo alloa thing extreamly perilfous to go about to mock God : fo much the Apoffle infers from this prix c ple for he had no fooner laid down my conclufion, Gad is'net mocked, but prefeutly he fubjoins, Whatfaever- a manfoweth, that alfo (hall he reap, Our anions , good or bad, are like the feed fown, the reward. of them is the harveft reaped ; fuch as the feed fown is, fuch thall the corn reaped be ; God will not give them a harveff ofwheat and bar- ly, . who have fown tares and cockle._ Many evil works are re warded
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