6 2 Chap. 4o. an Expofition upon!the Book of J o B. Verf. 19. ceeded by them, as to inward indowmenrs, as to underflanding and vertue,as to ourmoralityand good behaviour. Be not (iiith David, .d'tal. 3.2. 9.) eu the horfe and mule' whichhave no under- handing. Yet (Pfal. 49. 20.) man that is in honour andunder- flandeth not, is like the beafls that per;jh. How fad is it to fee men who have underflanding, yea, who are ( as to worldly con- cerns) men of great underflanding, like horfes and mules, who have no underftanding ! They who have not a right nnderfland- log, an underulanding to know and do the will of God (a good underfßanding have all they ( and none but they) that do his cam- ntandements, Pfal. i i i, io. ) are (inScripture fenfe) men öf no underflanding. What a reproach is it to any man, what ablotin the Efchucheon of a man in honour, that it (houldbe faid of him, and he not able wich truth to gain-fay it, that he bathnot fo much underflanding as anElephant that he is not fo docile and teach- able as an Elephant ! that he is not fo gentle and tra6table as an Elephant ! What, not fo obedient to duecommands, not fo fub- tniffive asan Elephant ! what , not fo ferviceable and ufeful as an Elephant ! what, not fo modeft and chaff as an Elephant!! what , not fo compafïionare, not fo faithful as an Elephant! O how fhould it (hame us l The Scripture often Thames us with our coming behind beafls Ufa. r. 3.) The Ox knoweth his owner, and the Aft his :mailers crib ; but Ifrael Both not know, my people do not confider o They have not fo much knowledge nor confide- ration as the Ox and the Afs. So again (Prem. 8. 7.) The Stork in theheavens knoweth her appointed times, and theTurtle, and theCrane, and the (wallow obferve the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of their God. Nor was this a reproof ro the prophane world, but to the profefiing peo- ple of God, theJews that they werenot fo knowing, nor skilled in the judgmentsof God, that is, to know and do what the judg- mentsof God called them todo, andbe, as the Crane and Swal- low wereobfervant of, and knew what to do, and where to be,in allchanges of times and feafons. And thus the flothful man is reproved (Prov. 6. 6.) go to theAnt thou fiuggard, con(ider ber ways and be wife; thou haft nor fo much wit as an Ant. This were a fhameful rebuke upon Hgathens : let it not fall upon any who profefs them felves Chrillians. Fòarthly,
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