chap.4T. an Expotitian upon the Book of J o a. Verf.t 3. 725 cularly with the knowledge of the creatures, which is an inferior and not fo neceffary a knowledge, doubtlefs he hath acquaintedus with the knowledge of himfelf, which is altogether neceffary. This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jetas Chrifif Douenon dells, whom thouhall fent(3obn í 7.3.)[r isan ufeful knowledge toknow cit in nsceffa. thecreature, to know the Leviathan; but it is of abfolute neceflì- rat. ty to knowGod the Father, Son and Spirit. God hath not con- cealed himfelf from us, nor his will from us, neither what he would have us doand believe, nor what he will do for us. The Apoale Paul could fay to the Church at Ephcfus, ! have not fhtenned to declare to you the whole counfel of God (A61s 2o. 27.) The Lord hath not fhunned to declare his counfel for our dire- ction, for our inarudion, for our caution, and for our confola- don ; he will not conceal the knowledge of himfelf fromus, in what is needful for us ro know unto falvation, The Lord having thus prefaced his purpofe rodeclare the parts, &c. of Leviathan, comes in the next words to declare his parts. Vert. 13. Who candrfcover(or uncover, as forre) the face of hisgarment. That is, his garment.. The word rendred face is redundant. M to flie from the face of a man,is to flie from a man and to flic from the face of the fword,is nomore than to flie from the fword. The face of any thing aridly taken, is the fuperficiesof a thing, or that which is uppermoa. The face of the earth is the upper part of the earth, not the whole earth. But here the face of Le- viathans garment, is hiswhole garment. But then the queflion is, what is this garment ? I may give kis.poteflit; you a fourfold anfwer. tarndmari in eunzadduce PH, Some learned Interpreters are of opinion, that the Sea ve. null, it felf is here intended by this garment, becaufe the Whale doth, pewwont as it were, wrap himfelfin the waters, as we do in a garmenr.The horninhus? Sea is his garment, faith Mr.Broughton ; who can take that from Jun. Pile him, and bring him to Land g Indumentxsa Secondly, Others conceive, that by this garmenr, we are to tee: vocatcu-' underhand, the skinof the Leviathan. The natural garment of quarn i dusneic. everycreature is his skin. At firf-t mans, not onlynatural, but only to tegitur. q d. garment, was his skin, and afterward his artificial garmenr was gairderraxie made of skins. Whocan difcover the slain ofthe Leviathan ? that efcutem? quis- is, whocan fley off his skin, and fo (-triphim ofhis garmenr > exoriavit Third- Mere.
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