Chap. 40. 4nExpofition upon, theBook,o fJ o B. away, or they were carriod away as a punithment of their ini- quities, yet they did not flit up themfelves to call upon the name of- God. nor CO take hold of him. Secondly, As(hewingthe reafon, why their iniquities carried them away, even, becaufe they did not firup themfelves to take hold of God. Their not flirting up themfelves to take hold of God, firred up God againft them. If we do not flit up our felves, efpecially, whenat any time weare compaffed about with fins and dangers, or with dangers,procured and brought upon us by our fins, as withLevia- thans, we may flit up God againt us as a Leviathan. And there- fore fetus takeheed,left webe found fierce and cruel againf our own fouls, by finning againtl God, or by not firring upour felves to take hold of God ; fuchnegle&s are full of provocations. Hitherto We have had infruetion concerning this Leviathan, howgreat, how flout, how fierce and cruel he is r now the Lord makes application. He bath been difcourfing about a huge tre- mendous Sea-monfier; but what is all this for ? Surely, for very great ufe : And the Lord maketh ufe of it two ways. Firf, In this verle, to (hew his own irreg./Fib/snap. If none Can rand before Leviathan, then who can handbefore me Secondly,. In the (a rth verve) to fiiew his oleo independency, that he bath noneed of anycreature : whobath prevented me that I fkoald repay him ? And all this the Lord makes good by that great affertion,for whatfoever is under the whole heaven is mine; this great Leviathan is mine to do what I will with him. This is the rum of that two-fold Application, which the Lord makes from thebitherto defcription of Leviathan ; the fiat part whereof ? i s expreffed in the latter part of the r oth verre. Who then its able to ,/landbefore me ? As if the Lord had aid, no man is able to fland before me If this creature, Leviathan, be fo terrible, that no man is ableto (land; before him ? then, who can Hand before me ? for all the firength and courage that Leviathan hath,I have given him, and 'cis nothing towhat I have ; 'cis not fo much ro me as a dropof the bucker, or a daft of the ballance, to the IA hale world. Can none (land before Leviathan ? Who then can `ff,and'before me ? One Tranflation faith , Can you refill before my look ? As God ke rafijlero had Paid before, one fliallbe caJdownat the fig ht of hire, namely, potent vultu of onto 3 Sault, Verf to, 693
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