\ - ' -JOB MILITANT~ Let)s call a parly, and the.caufc deci~e; · for Job pleads guilrlef.~) and·Woula fa 11 be tri'd: Yet harh his boldnefs term'd himf~lf uprighr 1 And rax'd th' Almif?;hty for not doing right .: His Innocencence witl) Heavt;:n doth he plea«~ And that unjufHy he was punifhed: 0 Purity by Impudence fuborn'd! lie fcorn'd his Maker, and is jufily fcorn'd: · far ae it from the 'heart of man, that He Who i~ all Jufiice, ret unjufr thould be;. Each one iliall reap the harvdl he hatl~ foyvn; His me.ed ihall rneafurc what his hands have done,' Who h~r can claim the WorJds'great Soyereigmy? Who raild the Rafters of the He<:~.vcns, hut He? If.qod iliould breath on man, or take away · The breath he gave him, what were ma11 but Clay l . ·0, let thy heart ~h' unbridled tongue co~vince ~ ·· Say, Dare t~1y lips defame an earthly Prmce? H0w dar~ft rhou then malign the ~ing of King~, To wholn grear..Princes are but pooreft things?. He kick~ down Kingdoms, fpurns th'.Jtpperial Crown~· And with his ~laft, puffs mighty Monar~h down. · ,Tis vai~ to !hive wii:h him, and ifl1e !l:rike; Our part's to bear, not fondly to miflike, ( ¥ifconfiruing the nature of his drift) But hu sband 11is correB:ions to our thrifr. Ifhe afflict, our b4fi: }Ho implore . His Bleffing wjth his Rod, ~nd fin nQ more.' Wf1ar ifour torments pafs ihe bounds of meafure? It uobe6ts our '"'ills, to fiim his plcafure ; Judge then, and let th~ impartial world advife, , How far ( poor Job) thy judgment is from w{e : Nor a:c thcfe lpeeches kindled with the fin~ ' Of adifiemprc£i;fp!e):n, but with defir~ .~ epr ich t.hy wifdop1 I~fl: thy fury ~i~ • J . . " rd1 ~ppric·p to t~1y ra!p inpr~ity~ . ' . r . Mcditat"
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