Eco Chap. 3a. An Expoftian "pan the Rook of Jo 1. Verf.29, From there feverall flepps of love,the queftion receaves adea- rer anfwer,why lob cloth not expreffe his Integrity in this poynt, by faxing he lovedor didgood to him that hatedhim, but by Pay- ing, he rejoyced not at his deftruchion. Here firth , If we duly confider what kind of man ?ob was (as appeares both by the teflimony which was given him by God ( Chap. T. r. ) u.d by that which he gave of himfelfe, as in the pretence and feare of God in the 29t Chapter of this booke ). we may well {band and wonder how he could have an enemy, or why any man fh ,uld hate him, 76b, both as a man , and as a hi.igierate, deferved to be (as a Great Prince was once called ) The delight of mankind. He was to the poore fo curteouo,fo mer- cifull to his friends, fo ;tuft to all,that furely all men had reafon to delight in him,yea to make him their delight,yet he had enemies, and Inch as maligned him ; If 1 rejopcedat the efirs:Ulm ofhim,, that hatedmee. Hence ()Verve. (i.s,d men, even tke b (f ofmen, they who lveGd and are lo- ved areoften hated, exereamelybated among men. David, Aman after Gods owne heart , complaints of that hearty hatred which he foundin and from the world (Pfal. 69. 4.) They that hate me without caufe, are woe then the haires of my head ; Howmany they are no man can tell, neyther could 'David tell howmany enemies he had, not only becaufe he had many fe- rret enemies whom heknew not, but becaufe hisvery knówne e- nemies were fo many, that ( according to common language ) they were innumerable. Enmity is rooted and fixt in the hearts of all naturell men a- gaine holy men; And though it be not alwayes feene working, yet it is alwayes at worke. Thus the Lard told the Serpent, that is the dcvill, who had abufed the Serpent to be iníirementall for the fall of man (Gen. 3. t 5. ). 1 will pat enmity between thee and the woman, between herfeed and thy feed; that is between the Godly and the wicked : The fpirituall feedof the Serpent; hates, and they cannot but hate the fpirituall feed of the woman; '6s their nature to doe it, and therefore they muff needs doe it. The fire foal! as footle lode its beate, or a ftone itsweight, as a natu- rall man his barred of thole that are fpiricuall. God himfelfe is hated:
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