Chap.a4. .!n Expofstinn upon rbe Book, of J OB. Vert. z4 663 honorable are abated, the rich become Poore, and the men of ex._ altation are brought low. This the hill are turned into valleyes, and the hiphcll mountaines, that is, men ss high and ftrong as mountairtes (as we read in the Prophecy ofZecbary (Chap... 7.) become plains.Opr fpiri uals!tare is like mount Sian, which (hail never be moved, `cis founded upon a Locke that can never be fha ken; But Temporal! thing. are like a wheele which troves conti- nually, and that (poke which is now aloft (as that Captive King laid to his Conquerour) is quickly turned to the ground, and brought Iew.The Apoftle gives an excellent caution in reference to our fpirituall efface (t Coy-. Io IZ. ) Lee kern that thinketh beflank'tlstakcb:edlfthefall. And I may fay inte.`erenceto any mans temporal eftate,He that is furelt of his ftanding, may fail not- withfthnding all his heed. And if any one (as the Pro. phet once quettioned, by whomA4117,64 arife for he is fatal?) fhould queítion by whom (ba'i wicked men be brought low, fee- ing they are fo highly exalted! It mutt be anfwered, that as 7.16.4 rifeth whenhe is fallen, fo the wicked fall when they are rife n, by the hand or power ofGod. He bringeth them low by his rip. pointment, and he bringeth them low by his power. (Tffl. 75. 7.) Ged is the ?edge, he psittetb doe ere and fetuth op another. And he it is that iettetlt up and putteth down the farne man. Tb 3 are gene, and brou;bt law. They are taken cut of the Ira, ai aK ethers. The original word fignifies to narrow. contrae or (hut up ; as vEp rontreet4 an to hatten, extend, and fhonte forth ; and the reafon is, , onnnuie, orhe.- becaufe by contracting, or drawing any thing back, we (hoot it 'ate, in p-et, forward with more force and fpeed. We fee how makes and iPconirir7 other creeping things contra& and gather themfelvcs up, and exrendene Je, thencatt t cttnelves forward with much advantage. B.:rh lignifi- rranptire. cations of the word are nade oie of in this place bi I terpre:ers. clauden str Some rendring, The Jh; .41? be up, y are !rough. 1, axedHint omnes. up, they (like prifoners) are under restraint, or they are re (tram vagut Reg: ed in prifon. They are are toab(e t':!eir liberty a .d tNei. power, to the wrong ofothers and therein e they are (tit fh i t and kept not onely are their homes broken, their (la vi s cut, and their nayle,s pared, hut themfelves ar'e Pant up hke i alts, which hurt him that is next whofocycr it is. it is reason they fhould bwine
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