202 Chap. 22. An Expotitian open theTooko f JOB. Vert. 20. -ìtì' (1gaitcat Fourthly, The word remnant, as it fignifieth in the Originall '.'udPavel: a- any thing which remaineth, fo efpecially that which remaineth lì>Em excel/it,i in wA of excellency, oreminent not as we fa the fagge end deo reliq.tiarum y. y' y y gg nomine impie- ofa thing, but even theuppermoft and befit of it. So that (after rain excellent this tranflation) the remnant of them is the excellencyofthem, that C,iupra ciïdlos which they thought moft durable, and honourable, that which vurialea ingot- they looked upon as moft fubftantiall and intrinfecall to their :c f ticitarem 7rte1li$0, g very thing reatneffe,that t2 fire 1" J the all con¡ume. So the word is ï'insd> ufed (Pf. 17. t 4.)Deliver myfoulfrommen which are thy band, O Lord, frommen of the world, &c. whofebelly thou fillefi with thy hid treatares, they arefull ofchildren, and leave there,. (oras we fupply, the refit oftheir fubftance) to their babes ; theref, that is the belt ; their bellyes are full ofhid treafures while they live, that is, they have and ufe abundance ofthe things of this life themfelves ; and they leave the reft, he doth not mean the fcraps or parings after they had filled their ownbellies,but by the reft or the remnant, ('tis the word of the text) he meaneth the choiceft ofwhat theyhad;even that they leave to their babes or children, when themfelves muff be gone and leave the world. Thus we may underftand the word remnant in this place, not for a poore pit- tance, but for the beft, thechoiceft things , for the flower and creamofall they had, even thefe things the fire Jhall confume, vengeance (hall purfue and follow, till all be turned into fmoak and a(hes. I have in divers other paffages ofthis booke met with Texts (hewing theutter confumptionofwicked men, therefore I (hall not flayupon it here ; onely take this briefenote. That the Lordhalloa di ff rentfire forthe righteous and the wicked. He path a fire for his owne people, but it is a purring fire, a eleanfing, a refining fire. Like that (2Wal. 3. 3.) He .(hallfit as a refiner and purifier offlver. TheLord alto bath a fire for the wicked, but it is a confuming fire. He kindles many fires upon them, and himfelfis a confuming fire to them.But it may be faid, that God is aconfuming fire alfo to his owne people ; for the Apoftle (peaking ofhimfelfe andother beleevers, faith (Heb. 12. 29.) Our Cod 4a conjumingfire. I anfwer ; firfc, Tis true, the GodofBeleevers is aconfuming fire, but he is not a confuming, fire tobeleevers; even the hearts ofbeleevers ought tobe over- awed S-
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