An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, This truth hath a most dreadful aspect and frowns terribly upon the ungodly and unjust. That God hath plenty of Justice, Justice enough to bestow among them all, is enough to confound them all; though they make a Covenant with death, and with hell are at agreement, yet their Covenant and agreement shall be dissolved, (Isa. 28.15, 16.) The Scripture speaks Justice often to sinners, specially to those unjust ones, who weigh the violence of their hands (Psal. 58.1, 2.) that is, who oppress with a kind of exactness, who do not tumble it out palpably, or in a lump, but weigh it out, now a little, and then a little: The Lo•d knoweth how to deal with such cunning perverters of Justice, and will at last make them acknowledge, both that themselves had no justice in them, and that himself hath plenty of it. And who now, laying these five considerations together, will not acknowledge, that the Lord hath plenty of justice? But the inference which Elihu makes from it in the close of the verse, seems, if n•t a kind of denial, yet a great abatement of it, for having said, He is excellent in plenty of Justice, the next words are, He will not afflict.

Secondly, This truth hath a most dreadfull aspect and frownes terribly upon the ungodly and unjust. That God hath plenty of Justice, Justice enough to bestow among them all, is enough to confound them all; though they make a Covenant with death, and with hell are at agreement, yet their Covenant and agreement shall be dissolved, (Isa. 28.15, 16.) The Scripture speaks Justice often to sinners, specially to those unjust ones, who weigh the violence of their hands (Psal. 58.1, 2.) that is, who oppress with a kind of exactness, who do not tumble it out palpably, or in a lump, but weigh it out, now a little, and then a little: The Lo•d knoweth how to deal with such cunning perverters of Justice, and will at last make them acknowledge, both that themselves had no justice in them, and that himself hath plenty of it. And who now, laying these five considerations together, will not acknwledge, that the Lord hath plenty of justice? But the inference which Elihu makes from it in the close of the verse, seems, if nt a kind of denial, yet a great abatement of it, for having said, He is excellent in plenty of Justice, the next words are, He will not afflict.