Ghat), 4®, bfln Expoftion wpm the kook, of J o B. Verf,,il, his kind ; Angels and Men are indeed above him, but as for other creatures, Behemoth ù the chief. Thus the Lord having fpoken of many particular excellencies in this creature, recapitulates or finals up all that he had .laid ( like an eloquent Oratora) in thefe crowning words, He is the chief of theways of God, Hence note, Pita ; There is a difference as to excellency,, or there are degrees of excellency in the work,! of God, God bathbellowed more upon fome creatures, than he bath uponothers. God bellowed moll upon manin the firft creation; for how excellent foever he made any vifible creature, yet it is faid of no creature he made him in bid image, after bis lìkenefs, till he came to man: and the new creature which comes in by redemption, is far more excellent than man in his firll creation, Now, I fay,as man is far more excellent than all earthly creatures, . he is next to Angels ;man is placed in the uppermolt form of the vilíble world. So among the creatures, there are fome that very much excel others here's one called the chief of the waysof God himfell. This is not an Orators flattery: the Spirit of (god gives Behemoth this encomium, this commendation, he hath pre- cedencyby adivine right. All creatures are not alike, they can- not all be chief, and there are none like this, he is the chief of all. Among the inanimate creatures there is a gradual diffe- rence (t Cor, a 5, 4 ) There are cceleflial bodies, and bodies ter- reftial; but the glory of the c'eflial to one, and the glory of the tcrref ial is another :and all cock liial bodies are not alike, for, There is one glory of the San, and another of the Moon, and ano- therof the Stars,and one Star differs from another in glory, There are altovarious excellencies, both as to kind and degree, among vegetativesor plants. What is a Nettle in the Ditch,to Hyfope in the Garden ? and whatis the Thiltle inLebanon, to the Cedar in Lebanon? that's one of the loweR and molt: ignoble plants, this one of the higheli and,moll 'honourable. Confider animals: What variety among the fifh of the fea ! what is a Sprat to a Whale ? What variety among the fowls of the air! what is a Sparrow to. the Eagle ? Whaa variety among the beal}s of the earth what is a ,Bullock to an Elephant, or an Ms to a Lion ? Cotfader- rationals, Men are not all alike; forme men do aimofi LI11 as 625 .
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