:Chap. 3 8-. An Expof s on upon theBookof J o s. Verf. i t . a 09 dious dike made , which might b: called a bridle to the fea but God alone can make a bridle for the fea ; his word in the Text, Hitherto [halt thou come, and nofurther, is the bridle. Some di- fpute whether it b. nor a continued Miracle , that the tea is kept within its compafs. We fay miracles are difcon:inued;and I con- ceive 'cis betide the nature of 'a miracle , to be continual ; yet, without difpute ,'tis a continued marvel or wonder , that the tea is thus kept to ; if the Lord fhould let ir loofe , if he íhould re- move the bar and unlock the door of that prohibition here given it , but one hour, no natural doors nor bars could hinder it frcm returningto cover the face of the earth. Take a few inferences from the whole. Pirfl , The fea is Godr , and be hash node it. (pfal. 95.5.) And he made it,zs to declare hisown glory, fo topromote our good (Pfal. 104. 25 ,26.) The earth (O Lord) is full ofthy riches; fo is this great and widefea,wherein are thingscreep- ang tnnumerable,both[mall andgreat beafts ; there go the fhfpc;there is that Leviatha' whom thouhaft made to p'ay therei .Omagnifie God,who bath made the fea fovaU, fo wide, fo grew, yet fo ufe- ful and commodious. As the fea is a terrible creature , fo a be- neficial creature , bringing forth and feeding an innumerable company of beans, as the Pfalmill fpeaks. Wemay as Coon num- ber the lands , as the íhoals of fish bred and nou-ifiled in thofe mighty waters. Secondly As the fea is the Lards, and he made it ; fo the fea is the Lords, and be mailers ir. (Pal. 89. g.) 7"boa ruleft the raging ofthetea; when the waves thereof arije, thou flilleft them. Glorihethe Lord in this. No earthly potentate can coerce the fez. Xerxes prefumed he could tame the HeRefpont , a little brook comparatively to the Ozean , but it would not obey him ; he difciplined it with three hundred ftroaks for attempting his bridge of boars, but it would not mend ; he can fetters into it , as if it hadbeen hisvaffal , but it would not be bound. It is God who binds the fea , That knows no Lord but him that made both it and the dry land. It as
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