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

Man can hardly do any thing that is just, and it is impossible God should do any thing that is unjust. Let God do what he will, it is right, and he is righteous in doing it: Yea, whatsoever evil God doth to a Job, to any of his good people, he is good to them in doing it (Psal. 73.1.) Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart, or clean of heart. Not only is God Righteous and Just, but Good and Gracious in what he doth: though his dispensations are often very sad, yet they are never unequal; and as the worst of men shall at last acknowledge that he is just; so the best of men, a Job, a David, shall find and see at last with joy and thanksgivings, that God hath been good, yea best to them (considering their state) in his sorest and severest dealings: For all the paths of the Lord (as well hard as soft, as well those that are set with Briars and Thorns, as those that are set with Roses) are mercy and truth, (mercy as much as truth) unto such as keep his Covenant, and his Testimonies, Psal. 25.10. He that shows mercy cannot but show righteousness to his in all his ways. As he that doth righteousness, is righteous, (1 John 3.7.) so he that is righteousness, cannot but do righteous things. God is not only righteous, but righteousness; he is essentially righteous, his righteousness is himself: A mans being, and his righteousness are two things. The man may subsist without righteousness (all men by nature, and while nothing but nature, though much sublimated and refined, if not converted, are unrighteous) but it is as impossible for God not to be righteous, as not to be. How can he who is righteous, yea righteousness it self, but do righteous things in all he doth, in every cause, in every proceeding, whether with Persons, Families, or Nations? Is it not then a most ⟨p. 12⟩unrighteous thing to think or say God hath, or can do any unrighteous thing?

Man can hardly do any thing that is just, and it is impossible God should do any thing that is unjust. Let God do what he will, it is right, and he is righteous in doing it: Yea, whatsoever evil God doth to a Job, to any of his good people, he is good to them in doing it (