518 Vert-. t 3. an E vpojation upon the Book of J o E. Chap. 3 7 fence ; For doubtlefs the Lord takes more care ofInch a Land, than of anyother Land. The eyes of the Lord wereupon the Land of Canaan, he took care of it from the beginning or the Year to the end thereof,even to water it with the Rait of Heaven ( Dent. B r . i z. ) Thus ',isPaid ( Pfd. 68. 9, t o.) Thou p Go e didfi fend (or slake eut)a plentiful Rain (a Rain of munificences or liberalities ) whereby thou didfl confirrio thine Inheritance when it was weary: Thy Congregationbath dwelt therein. Every Land to which God bears fpecial refpeE± and good -will (which when, ever he (loth, he Both it with rel.-pea to the people inhabiting there) may bz emphatically called His Land. Yet, Fourthly, Forafmuch as the latter word for mercy, Teems th im- ply that fpecial favour which God bèdowes upon his own people, in fending forth the Clouds with Rain ; therefore byHrs land I ra- ther conceive the earth in general is meant;or yer,to rake it more particularly, that part of the earth which no man claims, which is fcarce habitableby man, that which is a waft Wilderness or D_- fart forwild beaftx, that Land which is overgrown with Trees and Bullies, a Land which no man dreffeth or beftoweth any cul- ture or husbandry upon, even for that Land doth God take care, as his Land, thither he fends Rain, that the Beals may have Pa- flure, andPlants moyflure, that it may be watered and provided -'for,as well as thole Lands that men by theircare and induf'ry ma- nure as their own peculiars. 'Tis laid ( Chap. 38, 26.) He ( that is, God) canfeth it to rain on the earth, where no man i.r, on the lyildernefs, wherein there is 'roman. Thus in the Text, He. caufeth it to come for his land, a Land which bath no owner but himfeif. Hence Obferve ; godbath an rsniverfal refpea to, and care over all his Crea- tures. Wherefoever God bath a foot of Land in the World ( though no foot of manconies there) he fends the Clouds ro do it fer - vice, for the fake only of wild Beans living there,and of Trees and Plants growing there. ( Pfd. 36. 6.) Lord, thora prefervefl Man and Beaft : Not only cloth God preferve men, but beafts ; and where no men are God provides for beafts, that they may have food and live. We may hence argue as the Apotile did in another cafe,
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