Char 37. an .rpaltztien upon the P,o41z of J o B. Verf. i S. 567 he is fuppofed fpeaking of a thing often done, even after every forme , notof fpreading the Sky at ñrfl. The Vulgar Latine renders it ironically, in the fecond fenfe ru Puritan Thou perhaps didfi joyn with him in making the Heavers ! As if coin +il® fabri- Elibu had laid , Tu like, or belik.o thora wag with himwhen be Earns'esccdos; made the Heavens; Thou furely waif the giant or Mighty man Vutg: whet af feedat thefpreading cut ofthat vafl Canepie. Didfi thoupoor worm, contribute thy help, or lend thy band to God in the creationof the world f are we beholding to theethat the Heavens which we behold, compaffein all things with their embraces? youfpeakofyour felf atfads a rate,aa if you had beena.part seer or coadjutor with God in.tbe Creatio»,andhad withhimfpread out the Heavens. Thus the words are a (-tong Negation; Thou hadfl nothing to do with God when be fpread out the Heavens in the workof Creation ; why then art thoufo bufe with Godabout theworks of his Providence;and par.. ticularly about his dealing with thyfeif ? The firm cif Elihu's argu- ment in this matter may be thus conceived IfGod call not man in other-things as a Cenofeller or fudge of his anions, nor can be re- /aired of any man to dofo,nor may any manpreforce toJpeak aping' his ordering the Heaven, and Meteors, which yet concern the great good or Burt of thoufands ; then it moo/I needs be a very unégsiall' thing that any one man fhould expetl of God a reafon of his particu- lar dealing with him, but patiently fubmit unto it,not at all %iaeflion- ing, either his juflice or hisgoodnefs, howgreatly andgrïevóuflyfoe ver he is of ibied. Eirff , Taking the Heavens, either f ri &tly, or,a.c many de, fy- necdochecally, a part beingpia for the whole work of Creation, e; God made the world ; He fpread he Ñeavens, and flretched out the Earth, Heaven andEarth a:e the work of his hands. Secondly ,':Gndhad no partner`inhis work, Ha,/1 thou with bin; fpreadout the Sky ? The Scripture is much in exaltin : ee honour. of God, as the tole Agent and Efficient re rirrg-u )' rc t _ime' of the World, (Ifa 44. 24.) Yhp., faith the Lord , I asn the Lord that risi'keth all things , that f retcheth forth the ale ps`ns that fpreadeth abroad the Earth by my fe%f; The fir in Cod fpeaking thus, to couitolt his ancient people when tied law
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