An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

¹If it is not the Lord who doth this, tell me who is it? as if he had said, Some may be offended and scandalized at my doctrine, that I assert, The earth is given into the hands of the wicked, that be covereth the faces of the Judges; If any man shall deny or scruple this, let him show me whence these things are, and who is the cause of them?

¹If it is not the Lord who doth this, tell me who is it? as if he had said, Some may be offended and scandalized at my doctrine, that I assert, The earth is given into the hands of the wicked, that be covereth the faces of the Iudges; If any man shall deny or scruple this, let him shew me whence these things are, and who is the cause of them?

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Si non, ubi ille? Dagn. Si non, ergo Quis ille? lingua sancta concisa valde, Si non (supple, Deus qui hoc faciat) ergo quis est, supple, qui faciat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Si non, ubi ille? Dagn. Si non, ergo Quis ille? lingua sancta concisa valde, Si non (supple, Deus qui hoc faciat) ergo quis est, supple, qui faciat.

There is a three-fold understanding of these words: Some make the antecedent to be the wicked; As if he had said, Who but a wicked man will cover the faces of the Judges, and hinder the execution of justice? And so they acquit God, accounting it blasphemy to attribute the act of covering unto him: The Lord is a God of justice, he loves judgement, he opens the mind, and clears the eye, he doth not cast clouds and mists before it. It's true, so far as the act is sinful, God forbid we should ascribe it unto God. But (as was showed before) we need not use this subterfuge, left we should lay any aspersion upon his justice and holiness. ⟨p. 331⟩