An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

(Which is the scope of Eliphaz) A man that hath great power among men, begins to think himself strong enough for God also: He made earthly Cities desolate, and none was able to resist him, therefore he hopes to make Heaven desolate, and disturb the throne of God; He runs upon his neck, &c.

(Which is the scope of Eliphaz) A man that hath great power among men, begins to thinke himselfe strong enough for God also: He made earthly Cities desolate, and none was able to resist him, therefore he hopes to make Heaven desolate, and disturbe the throne of God; He runs upon his neck, &c.

Again, Some expound this Verse not of the cause of this mans sin, but of the punishment of his sin; He dwells in desolate Cities, ¹in places where no man dwelt: that is, He shall dwell alone, he shall either refuse, or be refused by all good company. For this miserable solitude may arise two ways.

Againe, Some expound this Verse not of the cause of this mans sin, but of the punishment of his sin; He dwells in desolate Cities, ¹in places where no man dwelt: that is, He shall dwell alone, he shall either refuse, or be refused by all good company. For this miserable solitude may arise two wayes.

1. 1Terrores de quibus nuper dictum est, non patiuntur impium in familiari hominum consortio vivere ideo desolatorum urbium ruinas & latibula quaerit. Pined.

First, From trouble of mind; he having oppressed others, shall find himself at last so oppressed with the witness of his own conscience, that to avoid it, he retires into desolate places, into waste Wildernesses, into old ruinous buildings, where none dwell but the Owl, and the Screech-owl (