An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…

1. 1Subito morientur & in media nocte turbabuntur populi, & per transibunt, & auferent, violentum absique manu. Vulg.

This Reading, and the expositions given upon it, prove, That God is so far from accepting the persons of Princes, that he does not only tell them their own, and reprove them to their face for ⟨p. 638⟩their wickedness and Apostasy (as was showed from the former reading of the 18th verse) but deprives them also of their dignity, and pulls them from their power; And he doth it in such a manner, that every man may understand and see the hand of God in it, because they see no hands in it. The less of man appears in any work of providence, whether it be in a way of mercy or of judgement, the more of God is to be acknowledged in it: and where nothing of man appeareth, all, or the whole must be attributed unto God. The judgement which Elihu speaks of here, seems (according to this Interpretation) to have much of man in it; yet because the men supposed to be in it, are looked upon as such as can do little in it, or ought to do nothing in it, therefore 'tis said to be done without hands. Histories have given many examples, and dreadful instances of such calamities falling upon Princes by the rising of the people; and then they are said to be taken away Without hand,