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

it only signified that the Lord was highly displeased with the great and mighty Ones of the world, who were to others, as the Sea is to a River, and as Carmel and Lebanon were to the Plains and low Valleys of the Earth, exceeding them in height and greatness; I say, he was highly displeased with them, because these carried it amiss in the exercise of their high Power; it was not because they were high and great, but because they had not exalted God in their highness, nor acted towards man as became those who were advanced above, and over other men. Thus all along the Lord speaks against, and rebukes the high and mighty, upon no other account but the unrighteous administration of their might & highness. God quarrels with no man merely for his might.

it only signified that the Lord was highly displeased with the great and mighty Ones of the world, who were to others, as the Sea is to a River, and as Carmel and Lebanon were to the Plains and low Valleys of the Earth, exceeding them in height and greatnesse; I say, he was highly displeased with them, because these carried it amiss in the exercise of their high Power; it was not because they were high and great, but because they had not exalted God in their highnesse, nor acted towards man as became those who were advanced above, and over other men. Thus all along the Lord speaks against, and rebukes the high and mighty, upon no other account but the unrighteous administration of their might & highness. God quarrels with no man meerly for his might.

The Histories of all Ages have reported the great and mighty men of the World, opposing the mighty, purely because they were so. Some say they did it out of Reason of Statel, but the true Reason of it, usually was their own pride, or envy,¹ because they could not bear those that were equal with them, as Pompey, much less a Superior, as Caesar could not. Or it was out of fear that the great would undermine their greatness, or bring them down. Thus mighty men oppose the mighty, as mighty; but the Lord is infinitely above these thoughts, He is mighty, and he despiseth not the mighty, nor doth he set himself against them,