7e4 Chap. 41. Expofition upon"theBoot¿ of J o i. Verf. a c.' The Lord having made thefe ufesof what he had Paid concern- ing Leviathan, proceeds to a general afíertion(as was Paid) in the dole of this a rth verte. whatfoever is under thewhole heaven k mine. Perim il11art- Thefe words arc interpreted by feveral of the jew,fhwriters, plammercedem in connexion with what went before, thus : who hatb prevented f den redde. reddere me, and Imill repay him? As if the Lord had raid, Do not think , rum that 1 have not enough repay ou for your corm el and a t omnra gum rub Ï not to g p 7y y f cal° ufpiam fiance, if you dare fay, I have had anyfrom you ; for, ivbatfoever gentium flint, is under theu-hole heaven is mine. That's a good fenfe, Chewing meafnt,meum the Lords fuficiency CO make good his offer. Some make cfiaurum. promifes of what they will do, when they have not wherewithal co do ir. Yet rather, Secondly,We may expound this affertion,as carryingon the for- mer Argumenr, or further to prove that no man can prevent the Lord, Peeing all is his already. whatfoever is under the whole heaven is mine (faith he) The creatures are all mine, I challenge all, I lay claim to all ; whether therefore I give to one, or take from another, no man hath reafon to queflion me, or to ask of me a reafon, why I did or do fo ; for, all is my own. And when the Lord faith, whatfoever is under thewhole heaven is mine, his mean- is, not only that all under heaven, but that heaven it felf , and all that is in heaven, is hisalto. The Lords Eflate or Right,is not confined to the things which are under the heaven. So that, when he faith, whatfoever it under the whole heaven kmine , he faith in effe&, all is mine. Thus t.?vtofes expoundeth thisaffertion(Deut z o. 14.) Behold, the beaten, and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy God, theearth a/fo, with all that therein ù. The rea- fon why the Lord fpeaks here onlyof this efiate under heaven, is hecaufe he was difcourfing with yob of this inferiour world, and zhe furniture of it and it was enough for him to undcrfland, as to the prefent debate, that all under heaven was the Lords : but in truth, not only is the Earth, the Sea, the Air, with all their fulnefs and furniture, the Lords, butthe Heaven, and the Heaven bf Heavens, istite Lords, with all their beauty and glory.. Hence
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