Cltap.'24. .fin E.xpofitionrupon the Book of J'o a. Verf.z.5. 669 tipe for Judgment,as he fpake alfoby the Prop!.et 70el(Ch.3.13, r4.)Put in thy ficklefor the harveft is ripe, come get you dewnefor thepreffe isfull, the fatsoverflew, for their wiekednesisgreat. mul titsedes,multitudes in the valley ofdecifion for the day of the Lord is neere,in thevalley ofdecifion;that is,iri the valley'of cutting down, or ofcuttingoff; or as we put in the Margin,in the valley ofconci fion or thre/hing; When the wicked fhali be cut i ffas the tops oft o tares ofcorne, by the fickleofdivine wrath, and be under dreadful breaking, and chrefhings for evermore. Laxly, This cutting offas the tops of thecares ofcorne, fbewes that God doth not cut offwickedmen when he bath them at an advantage, when they areweake, when they are low, but when they are as the topsof the ears ofcorn, when they are at their beft, then he doth it; the chiefe of the people are called the heads cf the people, (Numb. 25.4.) hang up the heads of the people before me, faithGod, by t.24'o/es, he cut them off whowere as the heads of the cares of corne. As force Tyrants for fear, So God in Juitice cuts-off theheads ofthe people, the chiale of 1amilie, Princes, and great men. This was Elegantly, though crnelly,expreffed by su in a paya- Tarquin the proud, the laft Kingof the Romanes, who when a veram capua City was taken or furrendred and application was made to him deco jt> Ht fg,. how he would have the Citizens dealt with, he anfwered, only by pciCci' iatisn" a figne, callingáhe Meffengers into a garden, and having of icke paui.nim eße in his hand, he ltruck offtheheads of the poppyes, intimating to tollendos. Floc: them, that now the Citizens were in their power, they fhould cut de Gelt ;Aotcto, off all the chicle and leading men among them : Thus the Lord `OF. / °' curs off the headsof the Bares ofcorne, the chiefe of men, or men ofgreateft power, in the great"efl:e of their power, he cuts them offin;love to juffice and righteoufnefle, as tyrants do in fear and jealoufïe of their power and greatneffe. They are cut off as the topsofthe tares ofcorne. fob having at large defcribed theRateof wicked mer,, and ex- emplified many of their wickedneffeso concludes by way of chal.. lenge. Vert. 25. Andifit be netfo; who willmake mea liar,sndmake my "leechnothing worth. In thisverte we havt?ob triumphing, and yet not fomuch lob triumphing., as truth triumphing ;for how much feverwe (peak lot,
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