ap. 4 r. An Expofetionupon the Eookof J O $. Verf. s 6. 735 . tohie brother. 'Tis common in that language to call two things trfrotriad- T joyned together a man and bit brother, or is woman and ber fifer, berm Thus (Exod. 25, 2o.) and the cherubims (ball firetch forth their wings on high, covering the Mercy-feat with their wings, and their faces (ball look one to another ; The Hebrew is, (hall look a man tohis brother. Again (Exod. 26.5.) c..2140fes givingdireeti- on about the loops, for the curtains of the Tabernacle, faith, Fifty loops (halt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops ¡halt thou make in the edge of thecurtain, that is, on the coupling of the fecond, that the loops may take bold one of another ; The Text is, a woman of her ffler. Thusunion is expreffed, becaufe'tis fup- pofed a man and his brother, a woman andher filler, keep near to- gether in love. Leviathans fcales are joyned as clofe together as a span and his brother, or as a woman and her filler, that is, they are mofl clofely joyned, or as fome take the allufion, they flick together as prifoners, that are linked and chained one to another. This union or cloCenefs of Leviathans fcales, thews both his 4irength and his fafety. Hence note ; unity is a great means to keep any ¡hang and fafe. Howcometh Leviathan tobe fo fafe ? his fcales are clofe to- gether.If he had never fo flrong fcales, were they not joyned to- gether, they could-be no fafety to him ; union makes every thing flronger and fafer. A company of arrows, bound up together, how flrong are they ? by which Sylurays invited his Sons to unity. Ahab, no doubt, had very firongarmour, armour of proof, but is had joynts in it (r Kings 22. 34.) And fo, A certain man drew a bow at a venture, and fmote the Icing of Ifrael between the joyntsof his harnefs. Death, the deadly arrow, made its entrance at the joynts of his Armour. Weak things clofely joyned together become flrong, and flrong things wanting union p:ove weak. Sa- tan is the flrong man Armec', and the Scriptures of truth tell us, that Satans kingdom is not devided,;there is no caflingout dévils by Beelzebub. Satan and his agents flick together, as the fcales of Leviathan, in oppofing the kingdom of Jefus Chrill (Pfal. 23. 5,'6, 7.) They have confulted together with one content, they are confederate againft thee. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amaleck, the Philiflines, with the inhabitants of Tyre, Our al fo is joyned with
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