518 Hoc ingrown- to e,f/icar Dei juSio Jßons orque exhibons quicquid vult fr7ntficatur. Loc. Periclesolyst. plus (freenim propret vim oloquentisr di£tsuefl) ful- minabar, into. nakit confun. d-b ztCrr tciane. Plutarch. Chap. 40. ,4n Expofition upon the Book of J o 8. Verf, 9. Secondly, When at any mile they faw the arm of man great and i+rong againa them. In both which cafes we find David often in thePfalnos, and other good Kings wholly taken up in the thought of, and in ring their faith upon the arm or powerof God. Thus did King :fa ( 2 Chron, 14. Ir.) and thus did King 3ekbefapbat (z Chron. 2o. 6, 1 a.) 0 Lord God of our Fa- thers, art not thouGod in heaven ? and in thy hand is there nos power and might ? fo that none is able to witbf#and thee.? O our God, wilt thou not judge them ? for we have no might againfi this great company, that cometb againff us ; neitherknew wewhat todo, but our eyes areupon thee. Somuch of the fir(( humbling queftïon in this verfe, Haft than an arm like Clod ? A fecond followed), or Canfi thou thunder with a voice liáe him ? Tothunder may be taken either properly, for the fendingout of that loud and terrible found or crack, which we Commies hear from the clouds, and fo we may underfland it here, who coo make a thunder-clap like God ? Natural thunder is a token of Gods po.ver, and 'cis a dreadful token. Should I expound and profecute the Text in the letter, 'cis a great truth and of ufeful coníderation. The voice of God in thunder exceeds the voices of all men. But in Scripture to thunder is often taken improperly, and fo it fignifieth any mighty fpeaking or fpeaking with mighty effe&. Hence thofe two eminent Apo(fles (fames and john were cal- led Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder, becaufe they preached fo powerfully for the converfionand falvation of linnets. And in the Chapter before the Text (Job 39. 25.) we read of the thunder of the Captains, that is, of the Captains loud voice, give ing exhortations, orders, and commands,to their Army ready for battel. Thepower that goeth forthwith theWord of God, is the thunder of his voice. It was faid of Pericles, a great Ora- tour among the Grecians, that he did thunder and lighten upon his Auditors, filch was the power of his Rhetorick, that he did (hake, as it were, that wholecountry with his voyce. Now,
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