C'±tap. 19. t1n Expof-tsïn up»; the Boot;e of J O B. Verf. 29. 431 fha11 defiroy your perfons, families, and eftates,till riddling b e left ; Thus the wrath of mars bringeth the pun:fhm_nt of th e fword As wrath workes man to revengc.himfelfe, fo it pro. yokes God to execute revenges ; When men are fierce towards each other, God is angry with them all, and will not fuffer them to live in peace who loved..diffention. This judgement of God uponmen is bath the fore-runner and demonftra: ion of a fur, ther, andthat the Final7adgcment. ?eh concludes and clofeth his difcourfe with a ferious premonition ofit. Thatye may know there is a judgement. That ye may know.] That, is, that you may be made to under' stand what ye have taken fo little notice of, ordoe not at all remember. Secondly, Takeit for the event,' then That you rimy loom, is, that you may feelewhat you will not be perfwaded of. 1 tell Hoc di°Uteutpr ors the e things that you may know them- that is, that you may ad quern prow, y r g > y tv ju(fum be convincedand p.rfwadedthat there is a judgement, or if yod centp,io, crgi. will not be perfwaded ofit, you fhuti leek it by your fad experi-- taro Boom id ence. Thus David prayed: againft his enemies (lafal. 9 20. ) "144. exposia. `fist them i.7 feare,O Lord,that they may know t emfelves to be bra' but men. That is, that they may be convinced, and perfwaded of it. He fpeaks not of fuch as had either fo high an opinion of themfelves that they wereGods, or fo low an opinion of them- felves that theywereBeafts or Devils : only theyaged as if they vt cognnfcatás had beenmore thenmen, and werenot fencibleof their owne /ledex tun fit. Jun: mortality. Theywho thus know themfelves to be men, will not ¡ e. u, jatnfm (in the Apoftles fence 1 Cor 3. 3 ) walke as men ; that is rnuru'horrev proudly or contentioufly. And as there are but few, who thus retudicioruna o. know themfelves to be men, fo there are as few, who know that tH, ad qfilium God is the Lord, (Exod. y. 8.) The Egyptiansfsall know that p;gßuttag if lam the Lord., that is, when I bringmy judgements on them, revo:cmirrr, then they will be contlrained to acknowledge me in my Al- Jun; mighty power and greatneffe, confefling that Iam God alone, and that betides me there is none other. Whenmen will not know God in his word, nor in his workes of creation and common ' providence, he will na?ke them know him in his rod, and is his works of judgment and extraordinary providence. So here, wrath bringeth the puniIbment of thefiord. -That youmay xo a..,:
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