An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

I shall only give one caution respecting this, and so conclude the point. That which is here affirmed in the general by Eliphaz, concerning the destruction of wicked men, Lions and fierce Lions, is not to be taken as a truth in the universal experience of it; we are not to understand it thus, as if all persons, all Lion-like persons at all times, perish, and are destroyed, and scattered abroad: But Eliphaz speaks of what is usually done: or he speaks of what God can easily do at any time, and of what God may justly do at all times. Lions, fierce Lions, tyrants, oppressors, he both may and can scatter when he pleaseth. Yet we find, that God hath permitted some Lions, to live fully, and to die quietly; they spend all their days in roaring and rending, in tearing and devouring, and yet themselves are not devoured: God often suspends this Justice, but it is for weighty reasons; for, in a word,

I shall only give one caution respecting this, and so conclude the point. That which is here affirmed in the generall by Eliphaz, concerning the destruction of wicked men, Lions and fierce Lions, is not to be taken as a truth in the universall experience of it; we are not to understand it thus, as if all persons, all Lion-like persons at all times, perish, and are destroyed, and scattered abroad: But Eliphaz speaks of what is usually done: or he speaks of what God can easily doe at any time, and of what God may justly doe at all times. Lions, fierce Lions, tyrants, oppressors, he both may and can scatter when he pleaseth. Yet we find, that God hath permitted some Lions, to live fully, and to die quietly; they spend all their dayes in roaring and rending, in tearing and devouring, and yet themselves are not devoured: God often suspends this Justice, but it is for weighty reasons; for, in a word,

First, If God should destroy all Lion-like men, the joints of the world would be unloosed, and the bands of humane society broken asunder. God forbade the children of Israel, to destroy all the Canaanites, least the beasts of the field should multiply, &c.

First, If God should destroy all Lion-like men, the joynts of the world would be unloosed, and the bands of humane society broken asunder. God forbad the children of Israel, to destroy all the Canaanites, least the beasts of the field should multiply, &c.