Chap.},. In Expefitton open the Book of J o B. Vcrf.23., the mighty power of God in deflroying Pharaoh and his Egyp- tian Hoff, who pursued them after their departure fromEgypt, to the red Sea, was to be fold for their faith in all the dangers and hardilaips wrh (hey were like to meet with in their travels,through the howling wildernefs to theLand of promife.Take oneScripture- inflance more(ZKin.19,2S.)Sennacherib was aLeviathan,he came up againll Hrzekah to delroy him and his people, which provok- ed the Lordto speak thus of him , Becaafe thy rage againflme is come into my ears, there(re Iwill put my hook into thy vale, andmy bridle in thy lips, and tarn thee back by the way thou cameo. Thus far of the firft thing in the defcription of Lev;athan,his greatnefse The fecond part of his defcription, fheweth the ftoutnefs and flubbornnefs of his fpirit, he will not comply, he will not yield, he will not any way fubmir. This is laid down in the 3d,..4.th, and sthverles. Verf. 3. Will he make manyfupplications to thee? The word in the Hebrew, properlyfignifies deprecation, which Precamur bons is prayer for the turning away of evil ; when evil is near, then d(Treeamar we deprecate it. Will he do this ? not he: He will not petition t`'turbra °ta, thee, he (corns to petition thee, or to cry for quarter. But, it may be Paid, can fifties pray or make fupplications ? to do fo, is at lead the work of rational creatures. I anfwer, there words are to be underflood by that figure Profopopeia, frequently x n tribe I used inScripture, when aas of Reafon are attributed to irratio- nal, yea, to fenflefs and lifelefs creatures. The very hills and valleys, the Seas and waters praife God by a figure ; and hereby a like figure, Leviathanwill not make fupplications unto man ; which Chews the floutnefs of his fpirit. As fome priConers taken in war,fcornto ask their lives ; fo if Leviathanwere taken with a hook, he would make no fupplications, not beg your favour, fo flout is he ; his heart is too great, his ftomack too big for any kind of fubmif ìon. Will he make many fupplications unto thee ? no, he will make none at all. This is further expreîfed in the lat- ter part of the verle. Will hefpeakfoftwords to thee z nr.110 pro, Mr. Broughton renders, or Will he (peak.to thee tenderly ? Will r11D1 he flatter or humour thee, that he mayget ioofc or be freed from fc flttllmot- thee. When the Gibeonites ( e(h. 9. 9.) were afraid they fhould btenAts varbHl be taken and defiroyed, they came and begged peace, they fpake autferrronilara !aft ward,. There are words of two fores. Some rife, 667
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