Chap. 24. urn Expcftior. Up<,n the 86'911,0f i O B. Velf. I. 467 wicked, (icing many ofhis people are not onlyE:t,;Pled by hinfelf,but lie under the rod of the wicked a long time unreverged and rode., livered. In the whole-Chapter we may obferve there three part4' Firft, A gaeítioning p opafition in the first vitae, 0: yBeing timer are not hiddenfrom the A/!mighty, doe tbey,that know him not fee bit days? Secondly, We have the confirr atior..of this propolition, and that in twobranches ; Firft, of innocent perlons not relieved ; fecondly, of wickedperlons not punifbed ; Thirdly, he concludes his whole difcourfe in the fail verle acheChapter by a tironger affirmation of what he had laid before ; And if it be not fo no;, who will make me a liar, andmake my fpeech nothing worth? Againe, More diftinftly in this Chapter, we have the propo- fition in the firft verfe ; fecondly, the confirmation of it,made by an enumeration, of many groffe finnes, which wicked men com- mit, and feel no fmart, but paffeunpunífht ; and chore finnes are either, firif, againft man, or fecondly, againft God. Againß man,firfl,by removingof the Land-marks in the fecond verfe;fecondly,violently taking away ofcattell,in the third verte. Thirdly, turning the poor out of houle and home, in the fourth verle; fourthly, lying in waite and watching .their opportunities to rob& get their prey likewilde beaßs,at the fifth verte;fifthly, reaping and carrying awayother mens corn out ofthe fields by violence, at the fxth verse;fixthly,u(ingall manner of oppreflioa upon the poore, 7, 8, 9, co, II, verfes. Secondly, yobdifcovers their rebellion againft God,and their ignorance ofhis wayes:for though both there be included in the' former afts (whofoever fins again{} man, fins againft God too) yet there are fins that are more peculiar and immediate againft God. And of there he fpeakes at the, e 3. verte. They rebrll agai f= the light ;againft the light ofthe knowledgeof God fhining with much evidence and cleanses, both in his word and in his worker And then takes occaf on more particularly to defcribe, fi.rtt, the murderer, and his darke wayes, ver, 14. Secondly, the adulterer and his darke wayes, (ver. 15,`16, 17.) Thirdly, lob fhewech, that though the wicked do all this, and are not prefeotly punifhed, yet that they are under a react cu;fe, Which (hall Purely overtake them (ver. 18, 19, a ) O o a z Fourthly,,
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