An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

That wicked men are troublers both of themselves and others. There the wicked cease from troubling, as if the wicked did nothing in the world but trouble the world. As before Job had given the special character of great ones and Princes, They get gold, build Palaces and Sepulchres, and fill them with treasure: So when he speaks of wicked ones, he saith, There the wicked cease from troubling; As intimating, that while they live in the world, they are a perpetual trouble to the world. The Prophet Isaiah is express, (chap, 57.20.) The wicked are as the troubled sea, that cannot rest; they can do any thing better, then be quiet, they have not strength enough to sit still, they cannot rest. King Ahab had this apprehension of Elijah, (1 King. 18.17.) when the kingdom of Israel was full of trouble, (for God did vex them with great adversity.) Art not thou he (saith Ahab) that troublest Israel? No saith Elijah, (who could make up a better judgement then Ahab in that point) I am not he that troubleth Israel, but it is thou and thy fathers house. Ahab had sold himself to work wickedness, and so had stock enough to purchase trouble for Israel; wicked ones are the troublers of all; they are troublers of their own families, troublers of the places and Cities where they live, the troublers of a whole Kingdom, troublers of the Churches of Christ, and the troublers of their own souls, they are borne to trouble both active and passive, they love to trouble, and they have what they love: It is the character and the argument of an extreme wicked man, to be a troubler; Even as it is a great argument of great grace, when you see one a comforter of others, or busy to help others, to do good to others; The tree is known by the fruits.

That wicked men are troublers both of themselves and others. There the wicked cease from troubling, as if the wicked did nothing in the world but trouble the world. As before Job had given the speciall character of great ones and Princes, They get gold, build Palaces and Sepulchers, and fill them with treasure: So when he speakes of wicked ones, he saith, There the wicked cease from troubling; As intimating, that while they live in the world, they are a perpetuall trouble to the world. The Prophet Isaiah is expresse, (chap, 57.20.) The wicked are as the troubled sea, that cannot rest; they can doe any thing better, then be quiet, they have not strength enough to sit still, they cannot rest. King Ahab had this apprehension of Elijah, (