434 Verf. r. 'e/inExpo t ion upon the Bockof j e B. Chap. 3 of any man, in the clofe"ofthat verfe ;, He refpeft th soot any that are w fe of heart. Thus I have given aprofpedt.of the whole Chapter. Nov to pari ic:ularo-, beginning with thofe two verfes by which Elihu leads in his difcourfe of thole wonderful workes of God;. Firf, By Chewing how hìrnfelf was affeaedwith them. Secondly, By calling upon others tobe afieeted as himfelf was,. 1^ßt317 Verf i.. mAt this alfa my heart trernbleel. Prop:* hoe. t thio,that is,by reafon of this,er for this caufe,Qr becaufe of this; fothe word isrendred (Gen.2.i.3.). She ('fail Adam of his wife, or Second felf ) fhall be called woman, becaafe the was taken out ofman. Sohere, at this, or for this faufe, my heart trembletb It may here be queffioned, what it was at which the heart of Elibra. trembled ?- I (hail give a double anfwer to that querie. Firft, Some conceive that while Elibu was fpeaking about, or about to Ipeak further of that marvelous work ofGod, the Than- der, God,ro confirmwhat he had Paid, or fhould fay, atthat very in(lant caufed it to thunder , that fo fob might be in a more humble reverential frame, and fo the better prepared to receive. what Eliha-had further to fay untohim.- That there was a form at et about that time, mayappear from the firf verfe of the 38th, Chapter ;then the Lord anfraered fob out of the rohirizvind,andlaid; . and we find that God hath often given great ifcoveriesof hirnfelf in or by Thunder and Lightning, In Minder and Lightning the taw was delivered to. I.ofes on mount Sinai (Exod, as% 6. ) And to atfedf the people of ¡fraael, when they had provoked God oy their peremptory and difconrerated' way of asking a King, Sa muel coming to deal with them about it (I San;. I a. i 6, 17,18. ) laid,, Stand andfte thisgreat thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes. IS it not wheatharvefl to day ? I Wig call unto the Lord,. and he(hall fend Thunderand Rain, that ye may perceive and fee that your wichednefs is great. Andthe Lord feat Thunder-and Rain that day-, even while Samuel was fpeaking, for theirconvict} ion and humiliation, as the next words fi'iew,,and all the peoplegreatly flared the,Lordand Samuel_ Thus po!fibly while elihu was about to fpeak of Thunder, for the humblingof74, God commanded it toThunder for his deeper humiliation : and iffo, thecaufe why Ehha,trembled isapparent enough;. The terrible Thunder-claps which,
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