Cß,;6 Chap.q.o. an Expofttionupon the Book of J o s. Vei t. a s. dareft thouJpeakwords whs.cbmay bear fomuch as thefhadowofany contentionw,tbme, or diffatisfaldionwith what have done ? Thus the Lord who had exemplified his power and wisdom to fob indivers creaturesof a leffer fize and port,nowgives indance in two of the greated, the Elephant and Leviathan, which may well be called ',the chiefpatterns or piecesof divinepower and skill, that fo,fob might be further convinced,and more deeply humbled by thefe vifible things, of the invifible power of God, or might learnhow mighty that God is that made them, howmighty that God is who rules and over .rules them. The one would trouble all at Land, and the other all at Sea, if "God did not binde and bridle them. Thisdoubdefs, or fo newhat like this, is the gene- ral fcope of theLords long difcourfe about thefe two famouscrea- tures, even toPhewhow much man is belowGod, f'eeing he is fo much (in many things) below there beads ; or, that man who in many things is no match for thefecreatures, cannot poflibly be match for God, whomade them. Thus much in general. Vert. t 5. Behold now Behemoth. We have a defcription of Behemoth fix wayes in this con- lest. Firfi, He is defcribed byhis procreatingor efficient caule, God .hinsfelf ; Behold nowBehemothwhich 1made : Be is my wore my workmanfhip. .. Secondly, He is defcribed by hisconfervine caufe, or that which is the matter of his nourifhment and prefervation, in the clofe of the 15thverfe, He catchgraft ltke an Ov And (ver. 2O.) Surely themountains bring himforth food. Thirdly,He is defcribedbyhis mighty firength;by thefirength of hisDynes and belly ,:ver. 16.) by the direnethof his tail and genitals (ver. ay.) and bythe firength of his bones (ver. aá.) from all which, the Lord concludes in the r9cn verle (which are the words T dell chiefly inlfi upon) his excellency above all other beads, He Woke chief of the wayesof God ; and yet bow great and vafi foever ;belt, his firength is weaknefs in cow. parifon of God ; for as 'ris Paid, God is able to tame him, and fubdue him; in the latter end ofthe 19th verfe,Re thatmade b'm,çaa wake his[word to approach ante bins. The former part of this z9th verle heightens that bath been fpokcn befàrc con- cerning
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