73o Chap.q.i. an E xpofition upon the Book.,of Jos. Verf. 14. apingme. Now if the Lord make fuch a terrible war upon Saints, if he terrifie them, even till he bath di(}radted them ; how will he draw up his terrours as an army, or his army of ter- rours, in battle arrayagainft the wickedand ungodly I How often loth the Lord exprefs himfelf by terrible things againft fuch ? As he fometimes deltroyeth tanners fecretly, or without any appea- rance of terrour (Hojea g. 1 z.) 1 will be unto Ephraim as amoth. So often openly, he comes upon them as a Lion, or as a Bear, (Lament. 3, Yo.) He was unto meas a Bear lying in wait, andas a Lion in jeerer places. The Lion and Bear often lye clone, and in ferret places, to wait for their prey; but they no fooner get them within their reach or danger, but they rife up and devour them openly. Again,if we are afraid to meddle with terrible things ? how Ihould we fear to meddle with fin l Sinhath terrible teeth, it will bite like a Serpent (Prow. z 3. 32,) and tear like a Lion. 'Tis fin that maketh all things terrible to us. God himfelf is not ter- rible, but as we are (inners c (in bath made all things terrible, and troublefome to us that are fo. The teeth of Leviathan had not been terrible to man, if man had not finned again(} God. His teeth are terrible round about. Bez.a feems to object from this part of the defcription t f Le- viathan, that the Whale cannot be meant by Leviathan, becaufe the Whale hath no teeth. Y anCwer, Firft, Though Whales, catcht by our Sea-men, have no teeth properly taken, yet they have fomewhat which is Ana- logical to teeth, theyhave that in their mouths, which is as terri- ble as teeth. Pbyfeterem t And fecondly, Naturalifts tell us, and Bez,a himfelf confeffeth, Breampra_ci that there aremany fifhes of the Whaley kind, which have very' pub dentwtos terrible teeth,And thoughBochartass infifteth much upon the teeth ddcrans> cf the Crocodile, which for number are threefcore, and fof their nature terrible enough ; yet he loth not at all improve this part of Leviathans defcription again(} the Whale, which, I fup- pole, he would have clone, had he found it unapplicable to the Whale. Now as Leviathan is armed with teeth, as offenfive weapons, to hurt others, and to be a terrour to them, fo with defenfive arrnes to fccurehiarfelf fromhurt, as it follotrethe Verfn'
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