Chap. 23. Exp9ftion upon the Bon of } O B. 355 Y Cor. I. 20.) God path made foolifh and will deflroy,buc tnrm arg Divine Difputants indeed,or dilpwters foranother world, whole wifdome is ofGod, and whaare wife-té:+tofalvaticn. Thefe righ. teotu ones may di/pate with him. So fhould Ibeforever deliveredfront my Page. 7+,b proceeds from the thefis to the hypothetis, from the third períon to the firfl ; The righteous man pleads with him, but he loth not fay, fs fhould the righteous be deliveredfor ever from his judge ; hut fo (hall I bedeliveredfor ever from myjudge ; thus he puts himf lfe expreffely into the number of the righteous or up. right, and his agument (lands thus ; He that is righteous, or upright, :noay diJj'iute and be acquitted or deliveredwhen he difputes with bis ?adv. Beet I am righteousor upright. Therefore 1fh.all be deliveredfrommy judgewhen I difpute with TheMa-;or propofìtion is laid down in the former part of this verle ; The Affumption in v. I Y, 12, The conclufion appeares in the latter part of this 7th verfe,and in the Y0th, Sofhould I be delivered fr ever from my judge ; That is, I L berare> eva- fhould efcape the feverityofhis fentence. The Judge bath him audìeoneo, i. that comes before him in hold, hebath him in his hand or power e, abfolvner, when his cafe his pleading,but when a man is acquitted,then he is vitarern delivered from his Judge, that is from the condemning fentence coniernnatio- ofhis Judge, thenhe is pronounced free,or (as we fay) acquitted obaaer ja by P. oclamation ; no man may thenmedie with him, or charge Inpetrarem ab his crime upon himlabwas allured that he fhould come off wet! e l;berarionetm at his tryall, and that there could be no bringing of the matter Jun. about againe. Ifhould be deliveredfor ever.,tha*_ is I fhould never be quef(ioned more,I fhould fee an end, or fiaall determination Vinaicabor ad ofmy caufe. v1Ciararn vet The word which we tranflatefor ever, fignifies b.-th vifl,ry eternita'ern rt and eternity ; I fhould be delivered vifïerioufly and eternal/y..0r un trwn enì;n to villoryor eternityfrom my yudge. The fame word fi nifies1iS,'? rgnifr. viiory and eternity in the Original!, becaufe eternity gets the vi-far. Ncc (ure +no ju dory over all. Time is a great Corquerour that eats our all chingsdife,,, d:ciden- bere below, whole pedegree is from below ; but eterni y will eate ir,, a vobis in. it out, and conquer time it fel le ; eternity is the greaten Conque goer judìc 1noo Z Z rer.vejirifq, Ixfi-
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