,}zo Chap. £3. '"InExpofitionvan the BookofJOB. Verf. at Gods wrath quickly confumes man to aches. Alhes are a figu and a monument ofexeteameit anger. So the Apottle Peter (peaks of Sodomand Gomorrah, in his fecond Epistle,. chap. 2.6. Where propoling Gods judgement upon thofe cities, he faith, And turning the cities of Sodom and Gamorrab into afies, con- demned them with an overthrow, making them an enfample unto theft that after fiould live ungodly. And the Apottle Pule de- fcribing the deltruetion of the fame cities,faith, Theyfuffered the vengeance of eternal fire .: they were turned into allies for ever For as if that fire burned, or Were not quenched unto this day; he cals it an eternalfire : or the reafon rr ay be, becaufe they went from one,fire to another, from the firewhich God rained down from heaven, to the fire which he-had prepared for the ungodly in hell : Hiítorians fpeak of the marks of this ven- rirvenittarregio geance of God upon Sodom and Gomorrah as ítill remaining. Qineris, Paul. Some call that place The Region of aches. And fofephus reports orofius.1. r.c.s. it as the tradition of thofe times, that the apples of Sodom were u solodull_ fair and pleafant to the e} e, as if fit to be eaten, but as loon as Bus smites ca,: they were touched, they turned to aches. Some Interpreters (I pentium, veve fay) conceive jobhinting that judgement of God upon Sodom rnantbus in fie.: and Gomorrah, thereby admonifhing his friends, that as. God tor b. ee ißñ ë e turned thofe cities into aches; fo if they shouldprovoke his ex- cellency, he could quickly deal with them, and make them-an ofeph. de bula everlaltin p argument ofhis dif leafure:. Though L ítay.not upon, udáic, <,gc.s this Expofìttion Yet becaufe it contains a general truths, .take one .Note. from ir. That, ifGod beprovoked hepanfaon turn affintaafhes weaken' theflrength, and blaff the beauty,of. man,. As the Lord fpeaks to Abimelech;. Gen. 20', 3.:., Thou,art but dead meen, becaufe of the womanwhich thou hall taken, for the is a mans wife : As if he íhould fay, I can quickly deliroy thee, turn. thee into the-;rave, tumble thee into the earth, though thou art a king, and a great Cone:,The Roinm,/ Hittory fpeaks ofCafar, that when Mete/his the Tribune controlled his orders about thepub Eque Treafure; Be quiet (faitiae) left Ilay,thee dead in the place . yet correfting himfelf, he added, Young man,it is harder for me, tcfpeakit, than to do it ; which he fake to mollifie the Iharpnefs ofhis fp.ech,'as not proceeding from his nature, but his,paflion,, 34 as being.gsieved aS the 1aráh:aefs of his own language, If the,
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