124 Chap.r5. AnExpofition upon the Book of JOB; Verf.23, taeciarare var Pew extremM itnpiiangu,flint £4t ilium co pa- iboundique Jhingi tribula . tianibus, quo Itegab ho/lo ilperatus fv captur,pro fpe. floculo publice ponebatur in Ferricernio. Bold. ita edam rev, ruin explicot. Vatablus. of their enemies, have been (hut up in round iron Cages, as Tamerlane carried Bajazet the Turkifh Emperor ; or bound in chains., as it is prophefied in the 19.9 Pfalm. It was the ufe of thole times, to make hoops of iron, for the fecuring.of Kings and Princes taken in battei ; the forms of which, and how thole captivated Kings were lockt up in them, with the poflureof their bodies in that bate imprilonment, may be feen in Bolduck upon this Verre ; and . jhe annexeth divers Texts of Scripture, in which he conceives there is an allufion to this courre way of handling Kings. Fourthly , Our reading compares trouble andangui(h. to, a King ready to battei ; as if he had laid, Trouble andanguijb (hall prevail upon him irrefifiibly ; This is but a high expref; lion of greateft preparation for a battei ; for when a King. goeth forth to battei in perfon, he will have all the strength of his Kingdom with .him., which Job himlclf clears in. the 29 Chap. Verfe 25. where defcribing: his own former felicity, he concludes, I chofe our their way, andfat chief, and dwelt as a King in the Army : that is, in great tirength and power. So the Apoflle fpeaks (i Cor. 4.8.) You have reigned as Kings without us; and Iwould to Godjie did reign ; that is, you conceive- you have had. the confluence of all comforts and firengths, You have reignedas Kings., I would you.had, that we allo might reign with you, or !hare in your felicity, So that when Eliphaz faith, Trouble and a:guiJh,fall pre- vail, as a King armed, and ready to Jet forth to battei his meaning is , They [hall prevail ftrongly , yea , irrefillibly. The wicked man [hall not be able to fiand their charge, much lefa repu'r it. There feveral. Explications of the (imilitude meet in one common truth, That, as the wicked :hall not fla lid in .dgcment,when God.comerh to judge all the world ; fo when the Lord fends forth his judgements upon any part of the world, they are the men that (hall furely fall : trouble and anguifhdthall terrifie them, as a King going to joyn bat- tel, or a King taken and captivated in battel, or as a King conquering and prevailing over his foes in battei. Sin pre- vailsalways upon- wicked men, as a King commanding and titling over them at !aft, trouble (which is the fruit of fin) fhali prevail upon them as a King oppreffing and de(lroyïng them.: They who will not fubtoit to ahe rul,-e ..of the Law 22sß.
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