I2 Chap. 38. AnEaepofition upon the Booko fJ o B. Vert. F. fay with reverence,when the Lord fpeaks chidingly (as he did to) job) re is in a iform , or (according to the Text) fpeakes out of a Stormy Whirlwind : 1bus alto, when the Lord fpeaks plea_ tingly , and genrly,then he may bePaid to fpeak in a calna.Theré's a truth in that. Thirdly,, The Lord anCwered in a Whirlwind ; that is while yob, both as to his outward condition and inward difpofition, or the frame of his fpiric, was -evidently in a great íform or tot's.. For doubtlefs , his fpirit was very fformy and coifed up and down at that time , that is, much troubled and difquieted, upon the with- drawings of God, and the unkindnefs of his friends. Nowwhen Job had this Storm , this Whirlwind in his fpirk., the Lord appeared and anfwered him. Thus fome conceive it , though.not a Vifìonal. Whirlwind, yet a Metaphorical Whirl- wind in thofe three fences opened. But Thirdly, (with others) I take the Whirlwind here in proper fenfe, that is, for fuch a Whirlwind as is often heard and felt , founding, bluflering, and making great dií+urbance in the gyre, blowing up Trees by the roots, and overthrowing Houfes to- sx rube obfcu- the very foundation. Oneof the Rabbins calla it a darkcloud ra.Ikab. Levi. fevers' of the Moderns exprefs it by a rainy or wacry cloud , out ExNinibo.Bez. of which iffued that dreadful Storm , called a Whirlwind, venti turbine Ioubtlefs , fome fodder extraordinary Wind , exceeding the borrifico. confiant order and common courfe of Nature,, gathered the E turbine, i.e. clouds at that time. Thus God at once hid the glory of his Ma- e nube equa e- jetiy, and teftified it ( much after the fame manner as he did at oupit turbofeu the romulgation of the Law upon Mount Sinai) when he a fwered lentos curb; P a reos. Pife. job out of the Whirlwind. ht nubealiqua But it may be gneffioned, why did God anfwer jobout of a. ¡,raternature Whirlwind orrcnem falla. Firfi , Such a way of anfwering was moil proper to the difpen. Ve ipfacaligi- fation of thole Old Teflament Times, when the Covenant of ne, in quafc. Grace lay covered with Legal Shadows, and was ufually admi. videtur nobs niffred in a clothing or thewof terror ; efpecially (as was faid Vetodelitefce- before) at the giving of the Lawon Mount Sinai (Exod. t 9,Deut., re. yatabl, 4 I2) when,fo terrible wets thefight,that Mofes laid, I exceedingly fearandquake (Heb.r2.2 c.) And furely the Lord appeared and fpake very dreadfully to fome of the Prophets in thole Elder Times efpecially co the Prophet Habakkuk, who thus reports the
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