Chap. 34. An EA-pillion upon the Book of J o B. Verf, 24. 683 upon it, but only caution the mighty ones of the earth, in the words of the Pfalmill upon this point, exprefi in the very words of this Text.; for, God having faid to his Son, towhom he had given the Nations for an inheritance, (Pfal. a. 9,) Thou Chafe break them with a rod of iron,and (in cafe of their non-fubmifliors tohis Scepter) dalli them in pieces like a Potters veffel, he pre- fently adds, (ver, 1o.) Be wife now therefore, O ye Kings, be :n- 1674E-fedye fudges oftheearth; ferve the Lord with fear, and re- Joyce with trembling ; Kifs the Son, le if hebe angry, and ye perifh from the way. Yet though God be often at breaking work,he is not alwayes at it for when he bathbroken in pieces mighty men yvithout num- ber, he (as it followeth in the Text) will Set others in theirfiend. We may fuppofe thefe words given in upon a two-fold ac- count. P Firfl, To thew the abfolutenefs of the power of God, as well l' in fetting up, as in carting down: Secondly, To thew that we need not be difmayed nor difcou- raged, when we feeGodbreaking inpieces force or manymigh- ty men, for hecan findeoút others to fupply their room, and hll 2Qe ex boa cre- up the breaches which he hath made. Hefees others in their Head. daturdeperire The forceof the Hebrew is, He Pall make others to f and ; and humanigenersr that'smore then barely to fet another in the (lead or place of thofefat 0,addit / that are removedand broken. God is ablenot only when many Aqufnaoaea/ios, fall to raife upothers, but he can alto ef}abli(h and fettle thole whomhe raifeth up. That's the meaningof Eau, whenhe faith Andfee others in theirfend. Elihu doth not determine who or what thefe others are ; God may make his choice where andofwhom he pleafeth, in whatfad' mily or tribe he pleafeth,to fet up in the place of thofe mighty men, whom he, at any time, is provoked to break inpieces. The words are plain ; Note only two things from them. Firf}, God bathas abfolut e a power tofee up, as to pulldown when and whomhe Paler . S f f f z (Pfal,
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