712 Chap. 4s . din Expoftion upon the Book of f o B. Verf.12. proportion of parts; and where there is a due proportion of parts, (here is comeline(s, howgreat foever any creature is. All there concur in Leviathan ; Firfr, parts; Secondly,power;Third ly, proportion ; and therefore he is, thoughaMonfler for big- nefs, yet a comely creature. Iwill not concealhis parts, or his power, nor his comely proportion. Hence obferve, Firft ; god bath bellowed excellent parts, power, and proportion, upon allhis creatures, eminently upon formof them. Whatfoever the Lord made, he made it (as'tis Paid) in nuns- ber, weight and meafure, that is, exaóly. The fowls of the Air,the beatis and creeping things of the Earth, the fifties of the Sea ; all of them according to their kind, haveexcellent parts, power, tad comelinefs of proportion. David fpeaking this ingeneral, brings it down to theparticular under hand (Pfal. 104. 24.) 0 Lord, how manofoldare thy worlds (that is, the works of Creation) in wifdorn ball thou made them all (all of them, even to the very Fly, are wifelymade, in wifdome haft thou made themall) the earth is full of thy riches, verf. 15. So is thisgreat and wideSea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, bothfmall andgreat beafls; therego the Ships, there is that Leviathan, whom thouhall made to play therein. Leviathan is made in wifdom, or wifely made ; the wifdotri, as well as the power of the great God is vifible, in the making andconvolute of him. Secondly, Obferve ; God is ?leafed to fitforth, and in jetting forth, the particular excellencies of natural creatures. 'will not (faith the Lord) conceal his parts, &c. God (who is without parts) is feen in the parts of every creature, and there- fore he bathnot concealed their parts. Men do not light a candle (faith Chri f, Mat. 5.15 ) and put it under a bufhel,but on acan- dleflick. God bath lighted a candle for us to fee himfelf by, in making the parts of every creature, and hebath put that light on as many candleflicks, as he bath made difcourfesor difcoveries of them in anypart of the Scriptures ; and that he bath done emi- nently in the latter part of this Bookof Job. Now if God be thus pleafed in declaring the parts of natural creaa
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