OT EEIESST 3 neon anno pan Gel pak prope he cconigly Name,and tothe manner of thy dealing with all the reſt of Mankind. |chou haſt got thy eſtate by fraud and oppreſſion. Or, 2. W ich thoy Orh. O thou obſerver of M1 |; thou who doeſt exactly know and ſhaltnow manage with juſtice,and not wrongfully,as chon haſt done, diligently obſerve all mens inward motions, and outward actions ; M6 © hough thy beginning was {mall, yer ty latter and rherefore if thou ſhalt rt br tn _ mize -— 7;6p ie end ſhould greatly encreaſe m.
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k Seing thou art ſo gracious to others, ſo ready to preſerve and | t | pardon them, why may not I hope for the fame favour trom thee ? and more experience,hefides more frequent revelations from God,
{ If thou doeſt not ſpeedily help me,it will be roo Jare,I thall be dead, thaa we have. Who alto will be more impartial Judges of this cauſe and fo uncapable of thoſe Bleflings which thou uſcſt ro give to men than w2 may be thought to be. Imform thy elf from them by in the land of the living. m #. e. When thou ſhalt diligently ſeek the i::{truCtions which they left, either in Word or Writing, what for me, that thou mayeſt ſhew favour to me, thou wilr tind that I their Opinion was about the manner of God's Dealings with Men. am dead and gone,and ſo wilt loſe thy opportunity : Hejp therefore o Do not ſlightly, but ſerioullly and induſtriouſly ſearch the anci- ſpeedily. A mw a Records C H Pe / . - +* - Re Bildads repovof, Jeb's words ſaid tobe as wind, God iſt in all his ways, & 9 ( on C —_— of ris P, 7 xv ag T no- Gi ch: | and in his dealings towards Job's children : if he would pray r9 God, and ©* ing, DECAUule Our wide EE OTE 1 TIRGOW 4. ) Gen. yy we indeed pure and upright, G'd would ariſe for him, 1----=7; For this _Þ But lately born, and tterefore have but Jittle Knowledge and : N:47:9; he appealeth 16 the hiſtory of ancient times, which declare the bad end Experience, as it follows. q I his 15 meant either, 7. Oftheir lives Kh mY of the Hypocrite,$--=--19: and the hope and joy of the upright, 20-=--22, ED Files, WO WOE 0 Fe: ow = __ Anceſ- 7: _ ; ; . "6+ X S, atria , Ww g 's gave the cortunity to £9939: 5: Hen anſwered Bildad the Shunite, and laid, know and fee the courſe of God's Providence nin. good Dar 144:4: 2 How long wilt thou ſpgak theſe things ? and bad men,and the differing endsand iilves of their lives. Or, 22Of mens T Heb:ue, how loxg ſhall the words of thy mouth be lhke a {trons lives 1a general; which being very ſhort, mens Obſervation wind a? | reacheth bur to very few events in compariſon of thoſe which may | - be known by the Records and Teſtimony of all former Ages. j
& 7. e. Boiſterous and violent, ſwelling and furicus, oppoſing all vn by perſons and things that ſtand in thy way, not ſparing either God | 10 Shall not they teach thee F, and tell thee, and ut-! | ;ter words out of their hearts 5? |
or Men. | © Gen? 18: X Doth God 6 pervert judgment c £ or dotii the | r Afſuredly they will inform thee that it js as we ſay.fs Not Dar 25: Deur: Almighty pervert juſtice ? { tially, bur ſincerly, ſpeaking their inward thoughts ; nor raſhly, 32: 4: b Heb. The 1:ghty God, as this word ſignifies, che Almighty, or but from deep conlideration ; not by hearſay from others, bur their : $547 : bn . ; own knowledge and experience.
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Dan'9:14: falſly with Men, becauſe he hath no need of it, nor temptation to agg u grow without water ? ud it ol, Rom: 3:5: it, being ſelf-ſufficient for his own happineſs, and being able by his 77. e. If ir bznotin moiſt and miry ground, This and what fol- : own invincible Power to do whatſoever pleaſeth him ; unleſs Men |lows he mentions as it were in the perſon ofthoſe Ancients to whom , will impudeatly ſay, that God doth fallly for meer love to falſhood, [he had referred him,cf whom he faith that they would give him ſuch | without any neceſſity of it, or advantage to himſelf by it ; than | Inſtructions as theſe. = Or, the graſs : or, the meadow, as this word | which nothing can be more abſurd and ridiculous: for this makes | js uſeq, Gez: 41: 2:7, e. The Graſs of a Meadow. But our Tran- '
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