Chap. 37 ,/Qn . zpajti-on upon the Bookof j o ti. Verf. t 6. 5 5 r but of the waters alto in the Sea ; he knows to a dram, to agrain, howmuch all the waters weigh. Secondly,Which are alto van things, It is laid (Ifa.4o. t 2.) He weigheth the mountainsinfcales,drthe hills ina ballance.Andas both thefe are true taken litterally,fo theyare true afro if you take them rnyflically or metaphorically. St JTohn was (hewed the judgment of thegreat whore,in a vifon,who fitted) upon many waters (Rev.17. a.) Whoare meant bywaters is explained there (v. 15.) even Peoples, and Multitudes,Nations, and Tongues. The people of the world arecompared to waters, and well they may, fo- their inf+a- bility ; voliable they are as water (Gen. 49.4.) and or their aptnefs to (well and rife up into floods. Now the Lord weigher,,. theft myflicall Waters, Multitudes, and Nations : he knows ex- aUly what they are, what they would be, and what they would do. And as by waters common people or nations,foby mountaines and hills the great the miehry ones of the nations are exprefl; Princes and honourable men are as great mountains. Thits fpake the Prophet, The day of theLord fhall be againfi themows- tams (Ifa. 2.) that is, againt+ the mighty men of this world ; Hence that deriding quef+ion, Whoart thouOgreat mountain be- fore Zerubbabel ? (Zac.4.7.) That is, O thou great man, who art thou ? furely, thou arc not fo much as a mole-hil before the God of Zerubbabel, who when he comes down, the mountaines melt down at his preface (ICa.64.a.) who,if he doth hut touch the mountains, theyfrnoake (Pial. t44 5. ) as if (truck with Thunder. God aveighs thefe mountains of the earth, that is, he coníidera and un- Elands them exactly. God weighed him who was the greate: snountain,of a tnan,in his time ; Belfhazzarwas the Cole Monarch of the earth, he had almort-the whole known world at his com- mand, yet the Lord laid of him (Dan. 5.2z.) 7kotaart numbred, thou art weighed, and thou art found too light. Thirdly, As God weigheth men of all forrs,fo he weigheth the asionsof all forts of men (z Sam.2. 3.) By him alions areweigh-_ ed, that is, all aelions are weighed by him ; the leaft aetions are weighed by rile mighty God, and fo are the greater+, he knoveth how topoyfe them, and Co make ufe of them, that they gray effe& what is anfwerr.ble tohis own counfel and purpofe.This is.ir Which the Prophet intended,when he Paid of the Lord,Thou mofi upright doll weigh the path of the deft (Ifa. 26.7.) that is,the motions, and
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