ChaR.36. e/InE1'pofition upon the llookof j B, Verf. 28. 397 Therefore Elihuexpreffeth the bleffin ?ully when he faith , The Clouds diftili span man abundantly, or upon abundance ofmen, Hence Note , Firf`* ; The Lard haih rain enough in ftore ;. He bath veffels plentifully filled for the wateringof the Earth; and, The Lord is fo free in his dif enfatian ofthe rain, that as he gives it to many in number,fo to many in kind,he maketh his rain to fall,(as well as hisSun to thine) upon thejuf, and em the unite, ( Math. ç .45. ) It Chews the exceeding goodnefs, as well as the bounty of God, that the avid partake of his benefits as well as the good. And, for our further improvement of this bounty of God, re- member,that if Godbe foabundant and liberali in bleflu s to us, we ought inproportion to abound in duty towards him-;or (as the Apoflle exhorts; ì Cor. e 5. g8.) we fhould be fedfafi and ino rneveable,almayes abounding in the worlt,ofthe Lord. Some doonly a little,(1 y fay ) only here a flitch and there a flitch of work: for God, but we-Mould abound in it ; and that not only now and then by fits, but be alù ayesfixed in it , efpecially we Mould do fo, with refpeec to that,.which-the-min' is a Symbol of , the word of God. When God drops and di!fills the rain of Gofpel tru-hs and holy foul- laving inflruaionsabundantly upon us , how Mould we abound in every goodword and work I It was prophefied of Chrifi (Pfal. 72. 6.) He (hall come down as rain open the mown graft, as fhowers that water the earth. Some of the Ancients ex pound that place of the coming down of Chrif in his Incarnation; then indeed he came down like rain upon the mown grals , he came down !weedy and powerfully.. 'Tis true allo that Chrif},, who is God , the Word, the fubf}antral Word , comes down as rain in and with the declarative word of God preached and faith- fully difpenced to the fouls of men and when Chrifi comes down thus to us, we Mould rife up to him, and return fruits of grace, according to the 1howres of grace, which we have recei- ved. The Prophet gives us an elegant comparifon of the natural and fpiritual rain in their ends and iflues, (Ifa, 55. ao, t r..) For as the rain cortseth down and thefrom from heaven, and return- ed; not thither,bat watereth theearth,andmal¿,eth it bring rthand bad, that it may give feed to the fewer, and bread to the eater; fo ¡hag
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