316 Chap. 23. An Expofitionupen the `Bóoltcf JOB. Verf. 3. ded them to my owndominion, andbreught them under myfubjetlis on. So in the 14 verfeof that Chapter ; My hand bath found aki Neff the riches oftke people, that is, I have laid hold on their ri- ches, and raid all's mine ;I have taken thewhole Heft withall the eggs, all their goods and treafures,into my cuftody and poffeffi- on. Thus lobwould find God that he might lay hold on him for his ovine or owe him as his Thus alfo the word is ufed (PiaI. z 1. $.) Thine hand (hall finde out all thine Enemies, .thy right hand fhall finde out thofe that hate thee. Itis not meant only ofa difcoveryof a perfon(though it be a truth,that the Lord will difcover all that are his Enemies) but thine hand (ball find them clot, is, it (hall take hold of them, grafpe them, and arreft them. Thy hand (hall find out all thine Enemies, thoughclofe, though Covet. Enemies, not only thy above- ground Enemies, but thy under, ground gl~nemies, as well thole' that undermine thee, as chafe tbratfiuir thee. Once more, in the 116th Pfal, ver. 3. we have an Illuftranon ofthis fence; The furrow ofdaath compaffèd me, and th, p, .ins ofhell gat hold upon me. TheHebrew text ts,tho pines offhellfound woe : the paints of hell, that is, the greaten, the es.' t am' it paines, gat held upon me ; they f and me, that is, they ceizFd upon me,and held me fait :a word of the fame roote is u fed in both parts of that text, that which we tranflate togei hold,.. is the fame with that, Ifound trouble andfurrow, they found me and I found them; thus faith ?ob, O that I knew where I might find him!tihat I might take hold of him ; why how doth thehind of a Saint find God ? how doth he take hold of and apprehend Glad ? how doth he as it werearreft him and keepe him dole I anfwer, By faith, and reliance,upon him; O ¡hit I knew where tofinde (aim ! that the Lord might not beat fuck a diftance from me, as he path been, but that I finding him might fixe my foul upon him. That's a good fence. Yet I conceive in this place we may rather expound lab fpcaking of Godafter the manner of Magifirates among men, who appoint certaine places where CO fit in Judgement, where to hear C ufes, whither all that are wronged and oppreffcd retort for ri liefe and right. (I Sam.7. 17.) Samuel eras the Chiefe Magiltrate, The Judge in Ifrael. Now the text faith at the-16th, ver fe, that be went fromyear toyear in Circuit (as we have the Judges oftheCircuit) To Bethel, andGilgal, and M,zpeh, and ?cadged:
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