Cftap. 24. dn Ex?ofztion upen the BOOb, of J O B. Vert'. 5, 5 i 3 Hence note. Wicked men are like Beaks or bee,((sell-in their difpoA.ions and aEéion!. David compares the heft of that fort, men in honour, tobell(, (Pfalm. 49. 20.) Man ( faith he ) that is in honour and under. f>i.andeth not, is like the beafls that perifh. Davidsmanthat under- ff.andeth not,is not a man without natural,but a man without true fpirituál capacity andunderftanding; A man who fears not Goj,. (for feare God that is wifdome)andwho departs not from evil, fortedepart fear evil that is underflanding ( °ob z8. 28,) Now flow great and large an underftanding fo ever any great and ho. nourable man bath, yet ifhe hath not an underftandirgin theft thing:, he is like the beafts that perifh. It is not laid he is like this or that beat, but he is like the beafis that perá/h. Take any beaft, or all beafts, the worst ofbeafts, he is the pi$ure of them all, and he daily exemplifies the vileft ofchoir qualities in his own. TheProphet Micas (Chap. 3. a, 2, 3.) faith that of them,whicia (peaks them rather beafts indeed then like beans', Heart 1 pray yru, O headsof 7acob, andye Princes ofthe heule ofIfrsel, is it not for you to know judgement ? (as if he had laid, who fhould if nor you) who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck fftheir skin from , f them,& their flefhfrom offtheir bonec,n'bo alto eat the flefb of my people, and flay offtheir skin,and break their bones,&c. How could the beaít be more lively acted then b,' thefe men ? Paul fought with beans at Ephefus; t Cor.a S ;z.)which,l g ant,rnay be expounded properly, & pofibly beft fo,It beirsgufual in chofe timesofperfecution under Heathenifh power;to cart the Chriti- ans to the wild beafts,and for the common fort tocry out, Away with the Chrflians to theLyons; yet it is as true that Paul did fight or contend with beafts in the (hape of men. And he (peaks 'particularly concerning bloody IVero,a man in the higheft honor of that age. (2 Tim. 4. 17. ) /war deliveredout of the mouth of the Lyon. The Baptift called the Pharifees ageneration ofvipers,,, (Math.3. .)And Herod is called byChrift,that Fox,(Luke r3. 32.) And 'cis faid of all ungodly men at one: ( Rev. 22. t 5. ) Without are doggs. Wolves, Lyons, Foxes, Vipers, Serpents; Doggy, the worst ofCreatures for rapine and fpoyle, do but ex- pref e thy, inhumanity and cruelty ofricked men. And becaufe tl n to they
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