Chap.i7: AnExpofition upon the Book ofJ OB. Verf,q., 435 nor could they glory, that they had got the day of7eb: Thou_ (halt not exalt them. Note Hence. Firffi,Exaltation isfromGod, Promotion comes neitherfrom the Eaft, norfrom theLeft, nor, from the South; that is, It comes not by the power of any creature, in any coati or quarter of the Earth. Whence comes it then ? The next Verfe direfs us, For God is the Judge, he putteth down one, and fetteth up another, Pfal. 75.6, 7.We can no more make our felves great men, then we can make our felves men : Our civil frame is as much from God as our natural ; by what hand foevee we are exalted, it is God that exalts us. Secondly, Obferve, God hides underftandingfrom them, whom be isa bout to abate, or call down, The fall ofmolt men is from their own folly, and ufually God takes away their wifdom,whofe honour he takes away. They than not fee the way to their own prefervation,who arc intended for deí}ru&ion. All Ages have taught us this Do- ¿rine in thedownfall of the greatefì Princes; who have re4 fated all counfels and overtures for their own good, till their evils have proved pail cure, and themfelves irrecoverably loft. kupsperdere That which a Child might forefee, they have had no eyes to v,ult Jupiter fee, nor hearts to confider becaufe God would either not ex. hes deme tar._ alt them, or not ettablith them in their exaltations , therefore he hid their hearts from underfianding the things of their own peace. Fools are not fit to be exalted to high places,and when once we fee thole whoare in high places, aging the foolifh man, we (hallloon fee them tumbling downtrom their high places,and acting the miferable man.Some who were ; ?t ver very wife, have been exalted to, and continued in high pla, ces ; but there was fcarce ever any man , who (in this fe.lfe) loti his wits, that bath either been exalted to a highplace, or continued in his exaltation. Thirdly, ConGdering of thole particularswherein the c r. exaltatian here prophefied of, did confi(+. Obferve. It is an honour to bear andjudge the caufeofanotbber man God is the Judg of all the earth, hewill heat and deter- K k k z mine
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