Chap. 37. Etipoftion upon theBoo.kof JO 8. Verf. 4 459 4/Ind he will not flay them whenhis voyce is heard. 'Tis queflion'd,who are meant by them, He wig not flay them ; ppV calcone4 Someunderfland the raine and- (hewers, which ufually follow Át :qu upon, or after a great thunder ; and. we commonly call them Hunt retard-- thu er fhowers.Others underflancl the Lightning and the Thun- bunter. :roper. der;as ifhe had faid, When Gods purpofe is declared that there fonatirèr, vet fhall be lightning and thunder, he will not flay them,ortake them retai'dabit oli- -by the heele, as the word properly fgnifieth : whence Tarot, had quisfutsren vst his name; becaufe when Efaos was coming into-the world, Jacob f Sri corepe- took him by the heele, as if he would have flayed or flopped his tit, Scult. birth, at Ieafl have got into the world before him ; and therefore Neq; dii fort i?- .Efau faid .( Gen. 2/. 36.) Is he nit rightly called facob ? forhe la cumaudisn-., .bathfupplanted rise theft two times Which tome render accord- d3 e i vox e- ing to the letterof the Text, c *ty brother may well be called an ie. f igerra Heeler, for he bath heeled me theft two times. In this fence the tonitruumpre.. Lord will not flay the birth and breaking forth of thefe terrible nutria =hi. twins, Thunder and Lightning. La(ílly, learned frames referrs bet. tkeuvots ahem to the Lightnings only endring He doth not defer them nond rr when his voyceis to be heard ; which he thus expounds , He fends ¡_ Júr nit - lighttìing before, foretelling thunder will follow. But I conceive the former expofition more cleave, which refers this not flaying, or he will notflay, both to thunder and lightning, in confort or to- gether. Hence note ; When once God fpeaks the word, and is refolved tepoe the doing of a thing, there is no flopping of him, nor will he flay lots work. He will not take thunder and lightning by the h ele, when he hach bid them go. We have a parallel fente to this, concerning the thunder and lightning of divineJudgements ( Zeph. 2. r, 2.) gather your felves together , 0gather your felves together, before the decr4e bring forth. As if he had Paid, Ifonce the decree bring,' forth, if once God (ledre that Wrath (hail come, there is no re- callingofir, Hewill not fa4twhenhis voyce is heard ; for then- (lfa. 43. r 3.) The Lord i is òrk,and nj3uelllet h m ; he will not fto¿ it hit felt, mnd le;elf. can. Th r::det and lightning whofoever fend le their way mull down,And as one ?".?nn 2 can
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