4, 376 ehap.i6. An Expofition upon tbeBoojipf J O B. Verf,ao: :phic; is highly efieemed among([ men it abomination in thefight of God : So they who are highly deemed ofGod are often an abomination tomen ; God feeth not as man Teeth, no not as good men fee; God and good men are not aiwayes of an o- pinion, either about things or perlons : and as the worft of men find Come to flatter and applaud them, fo the bell of men find Come to undervalue and deride them, and they.fometimes find good men doing fo: There is no judging either of m_n or of matters, by what is Paid ofthem : In this fenle all men, ate, or may be lyars, carrying a falfe report in their mouths: Should we judge concludingly ofmen by the opinion of men, how bale and contemptible would many precious fouls ap- pear to us ? Andhowprecious would many appear tous, who are only worthy to be contemned ? Chill gives the rule, John 7.24. judge not according to appearance (or by the face) but judge righteous judgement : We mutt not judge either of things fir' ä.pv Se or perlons, till they appear, nor may wejudge of them by ap4 aundum vul. pearances, efpecially not by thole appearances which the tut vetfaciera tongues ofmen put upon them. The Greek, in that Text of John, faith, Judgenot accordingto tbeface : For though the face in its natural frame be the Index or difcovery ofthe mind yet as a man may artificially let his face to a look altogether unlike his mind ; fo others may let a faceupon the wages and ac`ions ola man altogether unlike both the man and his aéfi- ohs. He that had judged Job by the face, which God had put upon his outward condition, or by that which Satan and his Friends put upon his.wayes and ad}ions mutt have judged him either an hypocrite, ferving God only to ferve his own turn, or elfe prophane, calling offthefrvice of God. All the morally illfavouredfacer in the World are ofone of thefe two features or complexions ; the opinions that went abroad of lob made him appear like both, and yethe was a man molt beautiful in the eyeof God ; a man that had received the fair- eft Letters commendatory under God own hands, that ever man had to that day, My Frinds [cornme : What then ? But mine eyepoured; out tearer unto God. As before he had appealed to God i fo now Pis eye poureth out tearer. untoGod. The
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