Chap.4o. oils Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. r9. untohim ; the Lord can make him as weak aswater, and of as little ufe to you as a little child. The ftrong fYall6e as tow, anon the maker of tt as a fpark (that is,the work or idol which he hath made flail be as a fpark to tow ) and they (hall both barn together, and none float' quench them (Ifa. r. 3 t.) Howoften are we called off from trua in any creature , from cruft in horfes, from croft in man! There's nohelp in the ftrongeft creatures,unlefs, Firft,God` g, ves them ftrengih, and works with their fírength. S.econdly,. There is no help inanycreature, if God lets his arength againft him.Therefore truft notin any creature. Secondly, This teachethus, Not to fear the power of any crea- tureWhile God is withM. If an Elephant, a Behemoth be againft" cis, we need not fear him. Thus the Apoffle concludes, while he puts that fuppofition (Rom. 8..28. ) If Gad bewith sts, who can bé aaainft too ? that is, to hurt us. His meaning is, none can. There,are none in the world againft whom fo many ate,. asagainft ihofe with Whom Tod u, that is, whom he owns,loves.and favours. Chrifftold his Difciples of this (joh. t 5, r 9.) I have chofen foie"out of theworld, therefore the worldhateth you. But though they withwhom God is, are hated of the world, or have the world againft them,yet the world cannot be fo againft them, as to harm or hurt them ; for he that made them can make his fword approadi to thole that wctald,that is, they are fully in and under his power. The Prophet Meth this argument (//a.54.16,17.) Behold, Ihave created the Smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, ,. and that bringeth firth an infirument fo. his work, and Ihave created the wafter to deftroy : Even the wafters of the world, they that make fpoil of all, all they are of my creation;. I have made them, and teeing I have made them, furelyjcanhinder them in any of their wafting and deftroying purpofes ;' and therefore the Lord in the next words gives a full and molt comfortable aflu rance to the Church, notwithilanding the skill of the Smith in.. making inftruments, and the ft-rength of the Wafter to deitróy" with them , Na weapon that ù formedagaina thee (halt profper, and every thong that frail rife agatnfi thee in judgment, thou (halt condemn p this is the heritage of the Jervants of the Lord, and their righteoufnefi is of 'me, faith the Lord. The very ground upon which the Lordallured them,that noweapon formed againft them fiaouldprofper, was, becaufe the Smith, and the Wafter too, , were 63?
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