4g'a Chap, 2.0. An Expofition upon the Book of j o a. Verf. e -they can hardly be known to have been at all in profperìty, For (faith Zophar) to this Affertion, all ages give their fuffe rage ; The tritcrnphin4of-the wisheditffiort, tie. We have in the two partsof the Verle, threepayre- of parallel! termes : Firftr, Triumphing andjog; Secondly, The wickedman and the hypocrite, .Thirdly, Short and 4 moment. Thefe in fubttance are the fame. The truimphingof the wicked isArt. D ash® The word which we tranflate triumphing, fignifies not (met)? tv{um has, !eta joy, but ;o príctumed, that all may know. it : Such is that of ficLi=a,ae.n triumphers after vihory obtained in bdttie. It is appayed both to honeft and to lin joy, yea the word is fornetimes alfo reru>r furre Jknr :; hrnc pi- applyed to forrow, when forrow is loud, and maketh an outY- vone$ c'iflf Ra- -.crv, or lamentation . From this root the Hebrewes derive that raft a c?ar:ne word whereby they expreffe ä Peacock,and they give the reafon, pee`an1d rid both from the fhrill cryof the Peacock, as alto from the caute Qii: irudine ea of that cry the Peacock fhouts (faithNaturalifts) when he rramfuarur,, looks upon his painted wings, and goodly feathers, then he triumphcth, and fo do wicked men a when they rafle& upon Lau' finPiorumitheir painted and- fpreading plumes, when they look upon brews eft their worldly fplendourand greatneffe, then they-triuenph, and fin Some read, The praife, others, TheFong of the hypccrita° Cant= imjro- g Dmen a prapin- All rendrings layd together, do bat reach the fullneffe of the qua, Jun. Test, in Petting out the hypocrites vanity, who afcending ( aa it were) his Chariot of pride and felt confidence , rides in trie umph and bleffeth himfelf, as the onely happy man. But The t riuràphhing ofthe wiked is /hor?. Or according to the Hebrew, it is ofware , This nearnet e *prop ny.<o. may be taken two wages, Firft, In reference to its beginning, it is not long lince the triumphoffuchbegan, Secondly,,In re- ference to its ending, the triumphof filch (hall not long con- tinue, 'cis bit.a while fince it role, and within a while it will fall. We readofnew Çods:(Deut. 32. 17, ) (it is this word in the Hebrew, Çods of near newGods) which ourfathers knew not, liehave a certain race of Gods that were never head of but of late,Gods ofa late date or Edition, and it will not be long but they will beout ofdate again, fuch is the triumphing of the wicked, it is not long fine he began to triumph , a child may
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