Verf.9. 492 Expotitian open the Book of J O I. Chap. 37. and precious things from one end of the earth to the other. l'hefe and many more ar'e the common benefits of the winds, for which the Lord hings t hem nano: his treafures. Secondly, The winds have their evil effeas, God fends them fomtimes for a plague, or in a way of Judgment. Firil; Winds often infea theair;the Lord can fend,Ea clean- fing, fo a corrupring wind. Secondly, As wind brings rain, fo it hinders or blows away, the rain. Thirdly, The Lord fends the wind to break and overthrow all that liands before it. What cloth not the whitlwincl over- throw ? Houres and Trees at Land are blown down ; GoodlyShips at Sea, richly laden, have been funk and over-fet by tempefluous winds. God fenc a whirlwind out of his treafure, which caufed the Mariners in Jonah toaft their Merchandize into the Sea, and yonah hirnfelf too. What crofs and tempeflucius winds did the Apofile Paul meet with in his voyage to Rome ( As 27. ) Further , Thal' the Lord bringeth the winds out of his trea- fure, is matter ti great comfort to all that have an intereaIn the Lord ; He can command the winds for them, and againfl their enemies; the wind cometh our of his Chamber, and it fhall do as he commandeth. h is faid ( Nahum a. 3.) The Lord bath his way in the whirlwind, and in the 'firm, and the clouds are the daft efhisfeet : That is, he ruleth whirlwinds, he walks in and works * by the whirJwind,and by ttorms. Aid as we may rake it p-oper- 1y, fo metaphorically ; that is, in the moil rempeatious difpenfa- tions and providerices,,When the world is, as it were ,in an Hari- cane, as boyfterous winds in r(-,rde places a;,- cAled. In the grea- teft conculions and confufions, whether of things or pe-fons, the Lord carrieth on his work in a :egulsi courfe. As the great ronags of the air by tar wal cind fo the grea!ell ìoi of af- fairs by the thong and viricaus ptas of wens fpi.i-s in the world ( which we 11"):',/ cfl Civi!l w°111, yea whi-I,v'nis ) are under ale ordering cf divine power and wirdorm- The Pro- phet ( ifa. 17. 13. ) admoniTheth th,-; wicked ;0 t;;;1;e heed and give olory roGod ; For ( fair'n he ) the Nations roga like the r4iag of ma y waters ; Bat God thall rebake thean and they (hall fire far of, and (hag be chafed as thechafe ofthe mountaines before the wind, and 44,e a ro.Tivzthi,g before the whirl:36d, eA rnRirg tIaìg
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