I', 23© Chap. 38. ,4n Expoftion upon the Bookof J o s, ed 3 ®3® hie as water ; yet this unitable body can the Lord change into a (ione , and make it hard as a rock. Hiflories are full of Orange reports concerning the cEas of cola. There have been fuch Roils and Freeiings, that great waters, mighty rivers , yea force parts of theSea have been turned into a (lone : Houleshave been built upon thefe congealed waters, and Petrels have been StraboLz. fought upon them. The Army of Kings llitkridates overcame the enemy in a pitch( Battel upon the Ice. And 'tis frefh in memory, how the late King of Sweden a few years Pnce, palled flanubi, ripar his Army over an arm of the Sea, in his war with Denmark. So gelu jungitdu- fierce and violent is the cold in tome parts of Malovta , that a ratufqueglacie mans fpittle is frozen ( fay Tome) in its patfage from his lips to ingentìa cargo the ground ; much more may it be fo, with cold water fprinkled bells tranfpor- in the Air. Panegyr.rn Nowas the power of God is great in hardning that which is eonrrefcuncfu- loft , fo in foftning that which is hard. He that turns water into bnæ currenti a (tone , can turn (tones into water. So the Pfalmift expreffeth influmine the miracleof bringing water out of the rock for Ifracl in the cru,i,c. Wilde:nets (Pfal, t r4.7i 8. ) 7remile thou Earth at thepre- ündo;ue fain fence of the Lord, at the ¡referee of the Ged of Jacob, which (ergoferratos fujlinet orbes, turned the rock into a (landing water; the flint into a fountainof puppibusilia staters. This isa glorious work , the turning of a vifible rock in- Ariuspatulit, to mater ; but the work of God is more glorious in foftning a nuns hofpita hard heart , or in turning the rocky heart of an impenitent fin. plauflris.Virg, net or the invifible rock of an impenitent finners heart into the ï.3Georg. of godly forrow working repentance not tobe repented of. We fhould muchmore magnifie the power of God , when we fee hearts of (tone melted and diffolved into thofe fpiritual waters, than when (though that be a mighty work of God) we fee the natural waters turned into, or ( as the Text gives it) bid as with aTone, or when we fee (as it followeth in the Text) that The face of the deep isfrozen. That is, the uppermoíi partof the deep is frozen; and,T con- ceive, the Lord puts this in ( theface of the deep ) to thew that the cold bath not onlypower in the (hallow (landing waters, but in that which is deep, and deep to amazement; fo deep, that it is called , The Deep; as if all ether waters were but (hallows, compared with than. So then, not ponds only and rivers and fhal-
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