388 APPENDIX. 



1. Who are they that are said here to learn 

 righteousness in the text? Not always the af- 

 flicted themselves, it seems ; but some others that 

 stand by and look on. For it is not to be omitted, 

 that the phrase manifestly varies in the parts 

 of the proposition : Judgments in the Earth, or 

 upon the land, some particular country ; and the 

 World at large, or some few in it, learn Righteous- 

 ness. Thus *Tyrus shall be devoured with fire, 

 saith the Prophet : Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; 

 Gaza and Ekron shall be very sorrowful : but not 

 a word how Tyrus herself is affected. God for- 

 bid it should be so with us ! May it never be 

 said, that any of our neighbours make better use 

 of our calamities, than we ourselves ! Have we any 

 so hard hearted amongst us, that can look upon so 

 sad a spectacle, as if they sate all the while in the 

 theatre, or walked in a gallery of pictures ; little 

 more concerned, than at the siege of Rhodes, or 

 the ruins of Troy ? Shall any neighbour-city say 

 wisely — Mea res agitur, jam proiimus ardet Ucale- 



gon ? Shall our enemies themselves (the 



sober and the wise amongst them, at the least) 

 tremble at the relation, and we continue stupid 

 and senseless? Shall Constantinople and Alex- 

 andria resent it, and we not regard it as we ought? 

 Nay, shall China and Peru, (it may be) Surat and 

 Mexico, both the Indies hear, and be affected with 

 it, and we ourselves insensible ? Shall the inhabi- 



* Zach. ix. 4, 5. 



