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…

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 (Isa. 34.) He that finds not his own conscience good company, never finds any.

First, From trouble of minde; he having oppressed others, shall finde himselfe at last so oppressed with the witnesse of his owne conscience, that to avoyd it, he retires into desolate places, into waste Wildernesses, into old ruinous buildings, where none dwell but the Owle, and the Screech-owle (Isa. 34.) He that findes not his owne conscience good company, never finds any.

Secondly, This wicked man is cast out from the company of men, he hath been a scourge to many, and now all are a scourge to him. Tyranny grows intolerable to mankind (Dan. 4.33.¹) Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest Monarch in the World and a proud Tyrant; at last he was turned out to grass: his Nobles, Lords, and Subjects forsook him, and he who ruled men, lived among Beasts; or as the same Prophecy of Daniel reports it (Chap. 5.20.) When his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed, or (as the Chaldee) made to come down from his Kingly throne, and they took his glory from him, and he was driven from the sons of men, &c. Which we may answer with Jobs text, He was forced to dwell in desolate places.

Secondly, This wicked man is cast out from the company of men, he hath been a scourge to many, and now all are a scourge to him. Tyranny growes intolerable to mankinde (Dan. 4.33