o Chap. 24: .fin xpoltien upon the 113okofJ OB. Vcf. 23. this reading, continue, if not kighten the former fence, fhewi .g further the outward profperiryofevil! men by the feemirg fa- vour ofGod to them. Iiuc I rather dole with our reading, yet hie eyes are upon their wayes ; as if he had CAA ; Di not think that 9'.d to eth no notice cf t; eir frnfull courfes, bccat Je be gives them to be in fafery and in fuch/4rty, that they ref,; and tritg upon it, for I tellyyu eke eyes o Çrsi are upm their x" ayes. Hnce obferve. ad,i1Pmles teeth the wage; if tricked men, or he fetch tricked men in all theirwayes. It is no argument that God neg!ec`tcth the government ofthe world, b_taefe wicked tun*rein fafety; He fully confidereth, their wages, who either through ignorance are wandriag from, or, through:wilfullnefe,turning out of his wayes. Ar,d theeye of God is upon the wayes of fuch men, not onely to lee which way, or whither they are going (rob 34.2 t . ) but Hir, a¡.prnta' to punifh themfor their going wrong. God will not connive ar, connívenria d7 nor diffemble what he Teeth when he feed) what is unfit. (Hab.3. c. matsnoni 6.) Ho and meafured the earth, ke btbsld and droveA (under the nations, that is, he divided and brake thole notions in whom he beheld iniquity. (Zach. 9.8 !) 4nel no opprejfour /full pa'e through thew any swore, f r now Ihavefeene with mine eyes, that is, I haveexactly teen, I have taken perfeft notice of them and their oppreflours,&I will in ;dice fo oppreffe their unjuft oppreffors, that they (hall be ridofthem for ever, No ospr, f ur paf e thre,vghh-them any more. We may make a threefold difference a- bout the Eye of God upon the persons or waye.- ofmen. Vita, The Eve of God is upon the wayes of meter, to observe what tley doe:his eyediftinguifheth between good and evil!, and difterneth, as mach as beholdeth what is done ; Hisfeting the waves ofmen is a cleare undeiBanding ofthem. Secondly, The eyeof God is upon thewayes ofmen to pro- iper and blefTe them in what they doe well. The eye ofGod up on the righteous implyeth, yea and conveigheth mercy to the rig' teous, Thirdly, The eyeofGod is upon the wayes ofmen, topan- Ma and chasten them for what theydoe amiffe. God bath a o ia- didiive
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