458 Chap. z 3.'. AnExpojition upon the Bock of Jos. Nerf. a 6, fay, ( one, let u+go to God. We fhould prize duties no'ftether then as we obey and enjoy God in doing them : Nor Ihould we prize heaven it felt further then as ive fhall rave thereamore full and perfe 1 enjoyment of God. Salvation it felfwere no falvationwithout the God of falvation. He elfo'hall be my fal- vation, Brat an hypocritefcall not come before him. In this later claufe fob fecretly refuteth the cenfure of his friends, who had afperfed him as an hypocrite. Bildad did it in the S' chapter, though not directly, by way of atièrtion, yet Aides ioYaná obliquely, by wayof inference, while he Paid (verf.l3.) 7he hy- neo apparere, pocrttes hope ¡hall perijhand be cut of, and his trufl (hall be as a quadnon fact- fpiders web. Herefob fpeaks that out, which no hypocrite can, rem fi impaus ! (faithhe will maintain my:raies defore God, and he(hall be my bocrita hemúi vas me falvation: 'Tis not fo with hypocrites, they dare not maintain eye dicitis. Mer. their-wales before God, or if they do, they (hail yet fall under the condemnation of God : Thus bywayof argument, he de- nieth, as theyby way of argument had affirmed him tole an hypocrite. fob could come whereno hypocrite,can. on veaiee in 4n hypocrite(hall not comebefore him. confpetfu eins The Hebrew is All ht ocrites hallnot come before him,that is, mnzs hypoceita P I Î Heb. No hypocrite¡ball come before him. Not all, is often in Scripture 7oa owns, iii put for none, or none at all. David (Pfal. 47.17.) faith of the facto femme worldly rich man, TPhea he dieth hefhall carry nothing away with f.epe valet him the Hebrew is, When hedieth he 'hall not carryall awaywith atitlus' him. The meaning is (as we tranflate) he !hall carry nothing Hypocrita g ( ) n Gratis eft at all away, he (hall not carry fomuch as a rag awaywith him. quad Latznzs So the Apoille fpeaks (Rom. 3. 20.) By the deeds ofthe law theee biftrio, Larva- (hall no f e(h be jufli(ied in thylight : the Greek i^, All fefh'hallnot htuoms qri atiud be jufli(ied in thyfght,bythe deeds ofthe lair :the meaning is,none ipfeeft,er aliaad 'hall. So here, All hypocrites, that is, No hypocrite, I have fe e¡f'e limo- opened fomething about him at the 8th chapter, and 'hewed hut. Sanft. there what an hypocrite is; he is one that ads another mans Flagitiofus. part, he alts a perfon whichhe is not. Anhypocrite is a wicked Vatab. Implus., man in agodly mans cloath:. Pagn. Some tranflate by a general word, A wicked sewn (hallnot coram neo do- Y lus non iag,ee come befòre him : Others render, An accepter ofperforasfhall`not thin:. Scpt. come bcforehim; he taxed his friendsas. fuch before. Two three or
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