Chap, zg. a, Expofaìon upon.the Boo!¿, of J o B. Verf. rra SoS firs will quarrel andcontradia whoever is upperme(i ; though I fay, all this be true, and ( the belt of .Princes when they have done their bell have found it fo ) yet they who doe well, are in the faireft way to hear well ; and God, who bath the hearts of all men in his hand, doch ufually give righteous Magiftrates a place in the hearts, and honour from the mouths of all men. When the rigbteoue groin Authority the pe'ple rejoyce (Prov. 29. 2.) That is, they have caufe to rejoyce, and commonly they doe fo. The Scepter of good Magitirates is the peoples flaffe: While they wear the Robes of honour, the people are cloathed with garments of gladnefs ; nowgarments of gladnefs are alto garments ofprai fe (lfa. 61. 3.) As when mourners are comforted of God, they praire him, fo they who are comforted by man pralle man. Ma- giftrates are let up for the praife of them that doe good ( Rom. t 3. 3.) -That is, they (houldprai(:, commend, and encourage thofe among their fubje &s that do good,and doing fo they give their fub- je&s much caufe of praifing them,and of praying for ablefsing upon them. They who are a /sifting to the people, ¡hall be blefed by the people (Jet. 31. 23.) Thus faith the Lord of bolls the God of ¡f rail, as yet, they ¡hall ofe thi4fpeecb to the land of Judah, and in the Cities thereof, when !hall bring again their captivity. The Lordbleffethee O -habitation of juflìce and cMountain of holinefs 1 lhcher thisProphefie was fulfilled at the return of the Jews from Babylon, or when thrift the Meullas came in the liefh, or whether it be yet to be fulfilled at that great and glorious call of the Jews to faith in Chrill, is quellioned among interpreters but 'cis out of all queflion, that whenfoever they, or any other people (hall be- come, through the care andgood government of their Msgi(lrates, anhabitation ofrigbteou fneffe; when Courts of Ju(lice are habita- tions of Julice ; when Juflice is done there, as well as declared and fpoken of there ; when they who have Jullice in theirpower , put it forth in their adlings, then the common cry of the peo- ple (hall bc, The Lordbiefs thee:O babitationofjtíflice, &c. And it is a fadargument, that there is a faller of Juflice in the Magi- (Irate, when in 'Readof a blefsing from the people, we hear of much complaining among the people. All the particular blefsings which Daviddefired might meet in his government are gathered into this one (Pfal. 144. 14. ) That there may be no complaining in oarfreet:.. Some (I know) will alwayes be complaining, nothing T t t will
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