Chap. 3 6. an Expof tion upon the Bock of J o B. Verf. 29. 407 Fief}, Of thunder-claps. When Cloudsare difcharged, their thunder-bolts, likecannon bullets,rattle through the air: who can odnderftand this noije ofhis tabernacle ? As noman can at all un- derfland the thunder of his power (Chap. 26.14.) fo not the All of his 'powerful thunder. This is a truth, and the text may well take in that noife, the noire of the thunder. But becaufe Elihu fpeakes profeffedly and exprefly of thunder in the next Chapter ( verf. 4. ) therefore ( I conceive) the noife of his tabernacle, here may be Come-what elfe, or lefs than thatof thunder, that is, the noife ofthe winds, breaking out from the tabernacle of God. What a buffeting noife, what an out-cry ( as I mayray )) the winds make we all know, efpecially when they become florn-les, andare not only winds but tempeffs. There are fweet gentle gales of wind , which make but a little murmur , or whipper in the air, we can fcarce hear their voice ; but forgewinds roar,. fame winds come little (bore of thunder, for noire and lowdnefs,. and I fupsofe Elihu chiefly intends this noife, byThe noije Ofhis tabernacle. But what is the tabernacle of God ? I anfwer ; That word Ta- bernacle is often ufed in the OldTeflatnent ; properly it fngni- fieth a tent in war, a military mantron, a flirting habitation, or portable houle, having no fixed or Ceded feat. The tabernacle under the Lawwas the. place appointed by, God for publick'wor- Tabernacu1u, fhip. We read allo of the Feal ofTabernacles (Lev. a3. 34.) hie rim dr- at which folemn Fear}, the .7ears dwelt leven dayes in tents, to CE1nrundo FeJi turn Succoth put them in remembrance, that God made their fore-fathers i raberna- dwell in tents when he brought them out of Egypt, as alto to odour:, mindthem, thathere they had noabiding place, but were to leek one ro come. And as this place of publick wo:fhip, foany place for private dwelling was called a tabernacle. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my houfe, until &c. (Said David, Pf. 13 a. 3. ) that is, into mÿ houfe, which though it he a royal Pal- lace, yet I lookupon ir, but as a movable tabernacle. But loth God dwell in a movable houfe ? God is immovable, he makes no removes, yet wherefoever God is pleated to íl ew hintfelf in his power and marvelous works, there we may fay his tab:°:nacle is. The tabernacle of God, where this noife, this mighty noife is made, is nothing elfe but the Clouds before fpoken of. The Çlouds
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