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

Observe, Fourthly; He who is the Maker of all men, can be unrighteous to n• man, nor is liable to the censure of any man, whatever he doth.

Observe, Fourthly; He who is the Maker of all men, can be unrighteous to n• man, nor is lyable to the censure of any man, whatever he doth.

'Tis impossible that he who made us should wrong or injure us, and that upon a twofold Principle; First, Of the respect he hath for Justice towards all those whom he hath made. God is so tender, that he doth not willingly (or with his heart) afflict, nor grieve the children of men, to crush under his feet all the Prisoners of the earth (Lam. 3.33, 34.) much less will he (as it followeth, vers. 35, •6.) turn away the right of a man before the face of the most High, that is, before his own face, who is the Most High: As if it had been said, The Lord will not pervert Judgment in any mans Case, that comes before him. Or, if we take those words before the face of the Most High, as denoting the highest Judicatory on Earth, as our Margin intimates, putting there, for Most High, A Superior; then the meaning is, The Lord doth not approve, that ⟨p. 152⟩any earthly Judge, though Supreme, or most Superior, should turn aside the right of a man, how inferior soever; for, as the 36th verse hath it, To subvert a man in his Cause, the Lord approveth not; or, as the Hebrew is rendered, seeth not, that is, he seeth it not with approbation, but indeed with detestation, and will severely punish such subverters of Justice. Secondly, It is impossible that he who hath made us should wrong or injure us, upon the principle of his Sovereignty over all those whom he hath made. He that gives all men their being, he that gives all to all men that are in being, can be unrighteous to no man, whatsoever he taketh from him, or doth with him. We have Job in the beginning of this Book (Chap. 1.21.) ascribing righteousness to God his Maker upon this reason, or principle, The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord. It is he that made me a man, 'tis he who once made me a rich man, a great man, the greatest man of all the men of the East, (Chap. 1.3.) What if now he hath lessened me, and left me little or nothing? what if he hath now made me a mean man, a poor man (in account) a no man? what if God hath now stripped me naked, and taken all from me? He hath taken nothing but what he gave; why then should I take it ill at his hands, or have so much as an ill thought of him? the Lord gives, and the Lord takes; there's no unrighteousness in all this. If God should utterly undo us, he doth us no wrong;