minow... 94 Chap. 38. AnExpotitian upon the Book of j o B. both ïuppofe the Sea in being, when thefe order: were given out For when it is Paid (verf. 8.) It brake forth , as if it ;peed out of the womb ; this implieth its birth and nativity; and whenGod faith , He that it up with doors, this fuppoleth , gat it not one- ly had a being , but that it was violent and furious, and would have over flowed all , and regained as large a Territory as it pofrefied at firft , when it iffued our of the wombof the Earth, even the face of the whole Earth , if the Lord had lot bridled and refrained it: Yet further, and morediftinaly, to open the words in their Order. Qft s. Hoe Verf. $. Or, WhoPhut up the Sea with doers? ruox reSe ära vco °s rope The disjunctive particle Or, fucceeds thole disjunaives(ver, situ? exveTu 5, 6.) Who did this ? O:, Who did that? Or, Who a third 5. 6, d. Druf, thing, concerning the Earths formation ? Here again , Or, Who flout up the Sea with doors ? The Hebrew is onely , Shut up the Sea with doers ; the word rob is repeated out of the fifth and fifth vertes. The Lord by this query or queftion put to rob, wculd then have him, and now us know , that it was himfelf alone that did its It was the Lord who bridled the Sea , and fiat it up with doors ; As ifhe laid , where wall thou, O rob, when Idid this great thing? as thou gavefl no affiance towards the laying of the foundations of Earth , and the faflening of the corner. foze thereof ; fo tell me what of ffance didfl thougive use in hingingforth, and fetling the-vafi Sea : Or at leafs (ifthou canfk) give me anaccount how thefe things were done , and how they con- tinate as they weredone by an everlafling decree : who hotth flout up the Sea with doors , was it Ior thou, or any other Creature ? Thus the Lord fill brings fob upon his knees by humbling queAions, knowing that he was not able to take any of that honour to him- fell. He poor man had no more to do in thisgreat work, than he had in the former ; and therefore he ought to fubmit to the works of God in providence , whatfoever'hewas pleated to do, tee- ingall the works of Creation weredone by Godaíone,without his counlel or aflïftance. Who hath TX Sape ef;z Shut up theSea with doors? protesere ; di- va learnt There is a two-fold rendiIng of that word eradiated Shut up * p r va We
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