Chap. z 3. An Expojitionupon the Book of Jon. Verf. 2 6. Cher, with the comfortable iff.ies in the book"of Gods decrees, were indeed, if not tweet and pieafant, yet very wi olef mt and profitable. Further, This writing of bitter thi:igs is alto coaceive , to be scrivere fören, é an allulioa toJudges, whocommand the fe itence agai ít offea- videtisr G por- ders to be written. That which is written, is not only recorded, tint: 1 {i,m:'on but eftablifhed. what Ihave written, 1have written, faith Pilate .t'retocabitc as if he had laid, I may fometime. recall a tranlent word, but'``;,, 5 "``r`t"" 1 z zio d; what I have written, and is under my hand,íhall (land. And wri- eta e''-ft ting nth a firmnefs in it, efpecially laws, which tell men what bass f.nsciai,a,;a they muff do, and judgements which tell them what they muflfcrtrto manrl.z,z- receive or fuf er : So the people of God are faid to execute the iibss. Chryr. judgement that is written upon the Kings and Princes who oppofe the kingdomof Chriff (Pfal. iq.9. 8, 9.) To bind their Kings with chains, andtheir nobles with fetters of iron, to execute upon them the judgement written. That is, written in the decreesof God, and written by the decrees of men. Thus they fpake in the book of Daniel, Now, OKing, of ablifh the decree, and the writing that it may not be 'changed, Dan. 6.8: And' when the Lord would thew Belfhaz.z.ar the certainty of his approaching ruin. ( Dan. 5.24.) he .prefented unto him the plaifler of the wall cf his palace, thefingersofa mans-hand, which wroteover againít the candleftick, and this, writing was written, Aierae, Mene, Tekel, &c. A bitter thingwas written againft that Prince in the midft of his delicious banquettings. 7houart weighed and found too,light : Thy kingdom. is divided, &c. And as in all civil nations, the fentence of judgement is written; fo among theyveartdi- Grecians, to write was as much as to accufe and impeach : whyK7:e"m juctex not alto among` the Jews ? fobs with feems to imply it ( chap. reo latam felt 31, 35.) 0 that mine adverfary had written a boob againfi me, that tentiamper_ is, a bookof accufation, which in the civil law is called a Libell,fcribit & and the aft of bringing in an accufation,Libelling. It is the way gufa é eft rc. of air law to bring in writingsof inditement, or ofcharge a- . gainft offenders, as weli_as to write the fentence or judgement given. upon it. Thus (Ter. 32.. 30.) Write this man childelefs (faith the Lord) a man that (hall not profper in hisdaies. As if he had Paid, the decree is goneout againft him, he (hall not efcape. Thou writeft bitter things. The lawsof Dr-aco are faid to be written in bbaud : and.. this decree of God againít fob was (as' he
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