Chap. 38. an Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. i. t makes firange kind of Mufick. A Whirlwind, is a fudden mighty loud-blufiringWind , taking away, or bearing down all before ir. A Whirlwind is a Wind which moves whirling , and gyring about all the points of the Compafs, no man knowswhere to have it , nor how to ihelter hirnfelf from ir. I have had oc- cation CO fpeak of the Wind , and of the natural ordin'ary Whirl- wind in the former Chapter. But here's a Whirlwindextraor- dinary, if not fupernatural. There's much queflioning among fume Interpreters how we are to conceiveof this Whirlwind. f would anfwer that point a little , and then give fume account, Why the Lord fpake to Job out of fuch a Whirlwind. Firíl, Some affirm that it was onely a Vifional Whirlwind : As if the Lord appeared (as it were) in a Tempefl or Whirlwind to fob in a deep fleep , fuch as was upon e Adaree (Gen. 2,, 21.) when the Lord took oneof his ribs, and made the Woman. In fuch a deep fleep, fay they, fob taw a Whirlwind, and heard the Lord (peaking to him out of it : As Bz.ekjel,whoin a Vifion looked, andbehold a whirlwind came out of the North ; as we read in the firfl Chapter of that Prophetie, (verfe4..) Secondly , Others conceive that it was not a Vifional , but a Metaphorical Whirlwind , or a Whirlwind in a figure ; and we may give you a threefold , or three things, to which this palfage of Providence may allude to a fpeaking out of a Whirlwind. Firth, God anfwered J'ob out of the Whirlwind ; that is, when there was agreat busfle or florm among the Difpùtants, con- fli6 ing about Jobs cafe ; one moving this way , another that, all being tofhed about (as it were) with the wind of their feveral opinions in ventitalatinghis condition. Out of this Whirlwind it was ( fayfome) or while all were thus difcompofed in their fpirits, and could not compote the matter indifference between them and feb , during this hurry or'troublefome fiate of things and minds; the Lord arofe and anfwered Job. Secondly , The Lord may be Paid to anfwer Job out of the Whirlwind, becaufe he fpake to him angrily, difpleafedly, and reprovingly. Anger, efpecially the Lords Anger or Difpleafure, is often in Scripture compared to a Storm or Tempefl : As if this Whirlwind were nothing elfe but a (harp angry chiding. When a man chides, we fay, The man's in a /harm ; and wemay C a fay
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