39 Verf.27. 1n Expofition upon the liookof''JO B. Chap. 36. dropping of water. In this fence I find the word rendred.exprdl (Numb. 9. 7.)where certain perfons are brought in by cilzafes thus complaining, Whereforeare wekept back,that we may not offer ern offerisig'to the Lord with the children ofIfrael ? It is a cafe; there were fome, it feems, fufpended froth bringing their offerings ro the Lord, and they demand a reafon of it ; to givewhich, cJt-Zofes faith,(landflill,and Iwill hear what theLordwill command concern- ing you. But I quote that fçripture only for the force of the word, wiserefore are we kept back, or with-held, which was for Tome un- cicannefs. Thus you have the firfi figni6cation of the word, and a double eradiation upon it, both very pertinent to the nature of the rain, and the Lords dealing with man in it, which is the fubjeá Elthu is 'mating upon. Secondly, The original word lignifies to diaiinifh, or leffen, or makea thing final] ; fo 'cis rendred (Exod. 5. 8. ) when the children of Ifrael complained that they were opprefled inmak- ing brick. This commandement came from Pharaoh, The tale ofbricks which they did make heretofore, yap (hall lay upon them, you (hall not dimini fls ought ofit. It is this word.Again (Deut.4.2.) 7'e jßiall not add to the word which I command you, neither fháll you dimiisifh ought from it. Man muff not make the word of God fmaller or greater than it is. 'Tis high 'prefumption toufe either fubtra6lionfrom, or addition to the word of God. Thus alto the word is ufed in the cafeof fecond or. double marriages ( ao.) ifhe take him another wife, her food ( that is the food T of the firfl wife) her raiment, andher duty of áxarriage fFa'l he not adimünifib. Our (radiators take up this fenfe of the word as noting the di- mini4ùng of a thing in the quantityof ir. lie makethInsult the drops ofwater, or, he. maker the waterHall anfmall drops ; whereas, if the water were left to it fell, is would poure down)ike a fea, orlike a flood to fweep all away. This is the work of. God, and though it bea-common, yet it is a wonderful work; IIe maketb 'mallthedrops ofrain. A drop is a ftnali thing, and therefore the IProphet when he would thew what a í'mall thing, or indeed, what a nothing than is, yea, all the nations of the earth are to- God , faith (lfa. 4o. 15.) The nations are es a dropof a bucket, and arecounted a the(malldaft' of the bayance. Behold,be takethup the Ifles as a very little thing. TheSpirit of Coed pitch- eth ?f7inui,áimä- nula.
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