Chap. 4o. An Expofîtion urn the Book of J o s.. 'Vert. 19. 637 to an ho {file approach, but rather to an amicable and friendly ap- bum W atre9 proach : Now to come uponone with a Sword, is an hoffile ap- a idwabi proach, 'cis m quo mullet now coco e as an enemy, which (Coy they) that word will cur boltüitat, not well bear. But I conceive this to be a miflake ; for in Scripture, once, if fedpytìutan,ica not oftuer, the word is used to denote an holfile approach, or an conlueflio.Pife afhault ( Sam. 17. Rio. ) Where David encountring Goáab, 'cis Paid, He tookhisft affe in his hand, and chafe five fmooth /fines out of the brook, and put them in afhepberds bag, which be had even in a ferip, and his flingwas in bis hand, and bedrew near (or approach- ed) to thePhili ftim. Now how did `Davidapproach the Phiti- i ? Surely, not to falute him as a friend, but ro deflroy him as anenemy, as in the ifíue he did. Though the word commonly fignifieth a friendly approach,yet the Scripture applyeth it alfo to an enemy-like or violent approach ; and therefore that objeaion is of no force to invalidate our Translation, or the Interpretation given of it r He that made him, canmakebis Sword approach an.. to him. But what is this Sword, that God makes to approach unto Be. herath ? I anfwer, This Sword is any thing wherebyClod is pleaf'd to fubdue or defiroy Behemoth, or the Elephant; whatever inl}ru went God will ufe, that's his Sword;or whether God will ufe any other creature tokill the Elephant, that creature is his Sward. `Tis Paid, that the Rhinoceros (his [worn enemy,if I may fo fpeak) gets his fharpned horn, under hisbelly, and paunches him. 'Tis faid aifo, that the Dragon, loving to fuck or drink his blood, kills him. Now whether the Elephant fall by thefe beaffs and fer- pents, or be {lain inbattle and war by men, he may be faid to fall by the fword of God, or that God makes his fword approach unto him. The fword of God is the power of God put forth by this,or that, or any means, for the fubduing or deflroying of this mighty creature. He that made him, can mare bis fword approach facto him. From this rending, and the interpretationgiven of it, which is very plain and obvious, )bfctve;:
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