348 Chap. r9 . AnE.xpoitian upon the Booke of J OB. Verf. 25. r o ) Whydoff thou judge thy brother ?why do'ff thoulet at naught thy brother ? wefhall all Rand b.fore the judgement (rate of Chrift. But may we not at all judge one anotrer; mutt all judgement be deferred till Chrift come to judge us all? This the Aponte feemes to give in charge, (r Cor. 4. 5. ) judge nothing before the time ; What's the time We have an anfwer it the next words; Vntill the Lord come,rvhoboth will bring to light the hidden things of darkYneffe, &c. What Gemming is this? none other surely, but his comming, or his glorious Appearance , when we mutt ap- pearebefore his Judgement feate, to receive accordir g to what we have done in the flefb, whether it good, c-r whether it be evill. Yet this is not a total! prohibition of judgement, as force pervert that place, urging it againti ail M; gititade, as if it were unlawful! for a man to be a Judge. The scripture for- bids onely incompetent Judges, or the urjui; Judgement of fuch as are competent. It forbids onely rath j_sdg, ment about things, or perlons without proofe, or a Judgement upe n per_ foes about, loch things, of which there can be co prs,ofe The hidden things of darklyifs, and the counfel, ofeke heart, oìhich Chrift alonecan bring to light andmakeminifett, as tfat r.xt expounds it felfe ; Or the Scripture forhlds rigid a_.:d inalf judgement concerning the eterr,all rfite of any pe-foi For though ue may lay ofmany men, con :dcrir:g their{ ;,;, s and outward`courie, as alfo the appearing raine arr,j diYpofüaon oftheir fpirits,that they are in a damnable andperil ring conditi_ rion; yet we cannot pronouncea final! ferterce upon1any man * that he fhall be damned,becaufe every mans jordginent is of God; and they who are now abominable and di.Obedier,t, and unto e- very good wprke reprobate, may yet ( through free grace) be convertedand healed, made cieane ac d (unified. Lattly The Scripture forbids us to judge one another, as having no grace for the doing'or not doing of thofe things, which may confift with a prelim note of grace. So the Apotile argues (Rom. 14. 3. ) in his difpute about the ceremonial] ob- fervation of meates and dayes, concerning whole abolition byChrift, many beleevers were then unfatisfied ; Let not him that eateth not, judgehim that eateth,for God bath received him ; that is, he bath accepted, and numbred him among his owne ; therefore doe not thou feverely reject and cart him out. Andas thus
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