Chap, 4o. An Expofetionupon the BookofJ o B, Verf,g. yet what wasjobs arm or power , in his higriett advancewenr, to the arm and power of God ! might not (sod then have laid to him, as well as when he (aid ic, Haft thou an atm like God ? or hash anyman at this day ? Surely (faith David, Pfal, ì 2.ip,) men of low degree are vanity, and menof high degree are a lye, to be laid in the ballance (that is, if they are truly rvc: ighed, efpecial- ly if they are weighed with God) they are altogether lighter than vanity. For, Firh, the power of man to help, is weak and vain(Pfal, 3 3. i6.) There w noKing faved by the multitude of anH fl ; amighty man is not delivered by much firength. And that's an unquestionable truth, whether we underhand it of his own ftrengah, or of the hrength of any others, who come in andcontribute their uanohto his aid and affihance. And this is one reafon,why the Lord calls us off from truhing to the arm of man (`Pfeil. 146 , 3.) Put not your truly in Princes, nor in the fon of man,iio whom there u nokelp. True, may ferne fay, it were a a folly to truh in weak Princes, to trult in them for help, who have no power to help; but we will apply to mighty P inces, we hope there is help in them; No: thofe words, In whom there is no help, are not a dihintion of weakPrinces from prong, but a conclufion,that there is no help in the tlrongelt. That's Orange; what ? no help in ftrong Princes I If he had laid, no help in mean men,carnal rcafon would haveconfented;but when he faith, Trutt not inPrinces, nor in any fen ofman, one or other , who canbe- lieve this ? yet, this is a divine truth, we may write infAfficiency, infoffeciency, and a third time infrafficieney, upon them all ; the clofe of that verfe in the Pfalm, may be their Motto, There is no help in them. And ifany than truh in msn for help, Tome one of,, if not all, thefe evils or fad iffues will follow. Firth, He will be deceivedand difappointed ; what he looked upon asa rock, will prove but a fand ; what he took for a Cedar, will prove but a reed , and the more he leans upon ir, the more it fails him, as the Scripture fpeaks. Secondly,lis will be a(hemed andvexed(Ifa. ao, 5 )They f sail be afraid&alharned of Ethiopia,their expeEtation,d-of is ;yrpr,their glory; that is,which they gloried in,and believedwouldbring them in much giory,or into avery glorious condition. They probably ex- peeted help from Ethiopia, but they gloried in the fore-thoughts of that help which they prefutned Egypt would give them, but Bbbb 2 they 555
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