390 Verf. Io. An Expofition upon theBoo?Zof J OB. Chap. 3, and wonderfully made ; Ourfirbftance ír not hid fromGod, when we are made in fecret, andcuriouflu wrought in the loweft parts of the Earth. As the .Holy Ghoftadmirably,and moft elegantly defcribes the conception and formationof man in the womb, Pfal. 139. 14, 15, I6. There are four keys of Nature, all kept in thehand ofGod. Firft, The key ofthe Rain. The clouds cannot open themfelves, the flood gates of Heaven,cannot be unlocked, nor thole fluets opened to let down a drop ofrain, until God turn the key, Deut. 28. 12. TheLordfhall openunto thee his good treafure, the Heaven to give the rain unto thyLand in his feafon. Secondly, the) keyof Nutrition, or of Food, °Pfalm ,145. 16. Thou openeft thine band, and fati,rfteft the define of emery living thing. The ftrength of the Creatureis fhut up in.thehandofGod, and untill he unlock his hand , the Creatures cannot ftrengthen or nourifh us , though we have our houfes and our handsfull of them. Thirdly, the key of the Grave , Ezeh 37. r . I will openyour graves, and caufe you to come out of your ggraves. We are fo fait lockt up in death,that all the.power in the world is notable to re-' leale us, till God (peak the word, and turn the key of th graves- doer. That place in Ezekiel is meant (I know) of a cr±%:t . death; But it is as true of natural death : And the Argument is ftronger for it ; Ifwhen a Nation (as the Nation of the yew., theta did) lies in thegrave ofbondage and captivity,no man cart. unlock that done without thekey of Gods fpccial providence; much lefs can any hand or power but his, open the door, and bring us out of the graveofour corporal diffolution. There is this fourth key belonging to the door fpokenof in the Text, the door ofthe womb : Which was fhadowed in that Cere- monial Law among the Jews, ofgiving theirfirft-born unto. God, as a thankful acknowledgement,that the beginningofall propaga- ticn and increafe was from him. Further obferve, That our birth and produetion is the fpecial work, ofGod. Thou art he that tookeft rite out of my Mothers womb (faith David; ) And he apprehended the power of God fo great: in his natural birth, that he from thence takes an Argument to ttrengthen his faith, that God could do any other thing for him, how hard fo- ever. He knew he could never be in loch ftraights, but the power of God could deliver him,when he once remembred that it wasGod who
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