128 Ghap.t8. An expofition upon the Book of JOB. Verf zt Verf 2T. Surely, fuch are the dwellings ofthe wicked,and this is the placeof him thatknowethnot God, E:ithonema to. Surely 3 He concludes confidently ; \Vhat I have fpoken, I slur o,ationis ; will (land to for a truth ; thus it (hall be. When Abafueroei (in Epilogxr hujas the BookeofHefter) advanced Mordecai, and fet him in royall toci,hac eff con apparrel upon the belt horfe, he r according to Hamans coun- t ditio ?ni.ldi ht fei ) caufed it to be proclaimed before him ; Thus (hall it be done tninir,en qulre- digartsr. ,Icrc. to the man whom the King delights to honour. Sohere Bildad ha- ving flamed the wicked man in a compleate equipage ofmifery, ftript of all his comforts, and good things, and not fo much as agood word left him fromany man ; but all men {landing ama- zed and allonifhed at his downfall, he feemes to proclaime Thus fall it be done to the man whomCod refolves to d,Jlonour:tbou 3üud dicirrtr (hall it be done to the man whom Goddif-favours andfrownes upon ; effe Tel aliqua, fuch are the dwellings of the wicked, this their end, non gird alb. Hence note ; quindiu eft,fed in quod tandem We may certainly conclude that the cftate ofawicked man deftnir, is ,wriferable. As fome Beleevers have an affurance for themfelves perfonally, that it fhall be well with them ; fo we may be affured in refe- rence to the prefent fiate ofa wicked man, that it (hall goe ill with him and his Such are the dwellings of the wicked. Though we cannot conclude concerning the perfon of a wicked man, that he (hall be caft away for ever, for 'tis poßïble he may re- pent and be faved, yet as to his prefent (tate, and to his perfon as continuing in that elate, we may with affurance, conclude him undone for ever. The Prophet Ifaiah hath this charge from the Lord,( Ifni. 3. i o. ) Say to the righteous, it /hall be wellwith him : for theyfhall eat thefruit oftheir doings. woe to the wicked, itfhall be ill with kim: for the rewardofhis hands /hall begiven him ; and that reward is woe. The rewardput into the handofa wicked man is fuch as the worke of his hand is; he is a worker of iniquity, then what can his rewardbe,but woe and mifery Such as a mans way is, fuch will his end be ; If the premifes be falle and unfound, the conclulon cannot be fafe and good. As by a mana fruit we may know what he is, fo what he Shall be, unleflë he be changed fromwhat he is. Such are the dwellingsofthe wicked. And
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