io Chap. 29. An Expofition upon the `Book, of J o B. VerL r ró Fourthly, we have the Princes and Nobles keeping filence while he fpake andgave out his fenrence. Fifthly, VVe have the' people highly contented with and ap- plauding his fencence as ju(f and righteous to all, as benigne and favourable to the oppreffed and the poor. A Magiffrate cannot expe6more honour then was given job, nor a people more Juffice then was done by yob. Happy, thrice hippy is that Prince, and as happy are that people, where there is fuch a reciprocation of re- fpe& and righreoufnefs. And indeed fo great was this reciprocation of refpec4 and rìghteoufnefs, between Job and his people,that, I fuppofe a paralel of is hath fcarce been made or heard of in any Common- wealth.This affective memorial of what was reallyaced by job,and anfwered by his people, feemes to equal!, if not CO exceed any fpeculative model of government drawn our by the iludyes of the moff curious pro feffors in politicks. Here's as much, if not more praaifed, then Plato°.r Common=wealth had in Idea or propofal. And that which fome have Paid of Zenopbon'r Cyrxe,that furely it was written, rather to fet forth the fhape and piaure of a good Prince, then as the hiffory of a prince, maybe Paid alfa of this narrative made by Job of his government , did not the Scripture affure us, that this book Both contain a certain hiffory, and is a divine report of what was done, not a parable or fpeculation about what ought to be done, by a ju(f Prince towards his people, and by a dutiful people to- wards their Prince. j©Bq
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