Chap.4o, eon. xpof :tzonupon the Book of 7oIs. Vert; 19. Obferve ; There is no creature fo great, fo Prong, but God re able to fu6drse andconquer him. Fie that made the creature,can makehis (word approach unto him. God can mafier whatfever behatb made. Behemoth, the Elephant is a creatureof avafi bignefs, a creature of admirable firength, yet down he comes, down he falls, as loon as ever God draws near with his fword. The inanimate creatures, the Sun, theMoon, the Stars, the Seas, the Earth,are firong and powerful ; yet God can (hake the Earth, and calm theSea, he can leal up theStars, and flop both Sun and Moon in their courfc, and make themRand I1í11 as a fione. God who made the fire hot and burn- ing, can take away theburning heat of ir, which is fo connatural to rt. And as he fubduelh inanimate or livelefs creatures, fo (as here in the Text) the animate or living creatures. The Lord, who bath made the Elephant, the Lion, theBear, the Ty- ger, can quickly put a flop to the power and rage of anyof them. Vie may exemplifie it alloin man,a rational creature. Some men, incomparifon of others,are like Behemoths,iike Elephants, great, powerful and firong , Nimrod; of the earth, mighty hunters: The Lord can make his fword approach to any of them. The Lord bath infinitely more firength and power inhimfelf, than he bath placed or planted in anycreature. For, what isthe (}ream to the fountain ? what is the light in the air, to thelight in the Sun.? The firength of the creature, is but a fiream or abeam iffuing from (god. The firength of the Elephant is no more to Iod, than the firength of a filly Moufe the firength of an Eagle nomore toGod, than the firength of a Fly ; the firength of a Leviathan in the fea < of whom in the next Chapter) is no more to God, then the firengthof a Shrimp orSprar. God can loondefiroy the roaring Lions, the raging Bears, the fierceTi- gers, the ravening Wolvesof this world. Nothing is firongbe- fore the firength of God, or before the firongGod. Now, if the Lord bath a power whereby he canquickly over- power the molt powerful creatures; 'then this teacheth us, Firfl, Not to truft in the towerof any creature. Though you have anElephant, a Behemoth for your help, do not truft in him. The'Lotd that made him, canquickly make his fword approach unto
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