Chap. zo. AnExpofitian upon the Booke of J O B. Verf. i o. pfal, 109. Y 2.) Let there be none to.exiend mercy to him, neither let there be any to pityhisfatherleffe children, while all is pulled from him, and they left not worth a groate; none ¡hall thinke them worthy ofcompaffion, or bellow a tear upon them. his a great rniferÿ r-.=hen nonegrieve tofee us in mifery. Iffympathy be no eafe to the afff.t red, yet it is, an honour to them. But I ¡hall pitch upon our own reading; The children, of. Fitijejur. pPaca wickedmen (hall be broughtfo law,that theyßall beglad tofeekthe bunt menárcoa favour, andgood will of thofe n'ho arepore; or thus , Hischildren vet pauperes. 'hallfeekte appeafe the poor, eventhofe pore whom their father Reg. Pagn. wrongedandoppreffad. They 'hall beconftrained to flatter and mono. fiwne f upon tbo e, over whom their father nfulte and upon Ade° miferi e- P fh i d rant ut coga whom he trampled. Which fuites well with the next claufe; our ptarare iraa' Andhis hands Jhall reflore theirgoods. The fumme ofall is this-; tor,tenuis far. His children ¡ball be poorer then the poore,, and -more mifirable tunah°mines.' then the mofl miferabl varabl. 479 (rant pauperi- Hence obf;rve ; ores pauperib sal That, Children ofevillparentsfare ill,and are fcorerged as a m emo`Jrimia fcourge to their parents. This poynt bath rifen from former paffages , I ilia!' onely take notice of onedreadful! example out ofScripture to verifie and iiluftrate it. We reade (2, Kings 2, 23, 24.) that more then forty children were destroyed by two fhee- beares for mocking'. the Prophet Eli(ha. 7ufline Martyr queries upon it ; Whydid the Prophet call for revenge upon children, who hardly under- Voter ipfar pa- ftand what theydoe, much leffé doe any thingupon defigne ? eri a parernibas he anfwers ; though we fhould fuppofe they were children fo edotíi erano, young that theycould not underfand the evil! of this a&ion, ctadep$ er0esm yet having learn d.this from their parents, God lent this judge- ffagelavit. rl ment at once to punifh the children and the parents; that they tud enìm alcen might be smitten in this deftrudion, which fell upon their chit- decalve, pro- dren,becaufe they had given their children no better;nftrufti. %4 óñe per on, or rather becaufe they received fuch bad inftru&ion from aïtption: eiil them. For doubtleffe they had learned that fcoffing language traproferebant. from their Eiders, at leaft by hearing them fpeake fo, ifnot by q.,a. abr?pist to teaching them to fpeake fo Got up than bald head got up thou ers:rdfurn's bald head. Which fcoffe and reproach they call upon Eli¡ba to t/1,17:11:7,:":: beremur juft, allufion to the raptureor carryingup o£Eliab. As ifthey had Marc.quefi,a fail ;
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