736 Chap. 4i. Expofüenupon the Book °of Jos. Verf. 16. with them. Thefe were all cleaving together, as clofe as the (cafes of Leviathan, inoppofition to Ifrael. Herod and Pilate, once no good friends, laid down all their.anìmofities, andcleaved clofe together, like the fcales of Leviathan, to crucifie Chri(f; and fo have evil men, in all ages, to hinder the progrefs öf his kingdome. It is Paid (Revel. 17. r2, 13.) of the ten horns (which are there expounded to be ten Kings)thefe have onemind. Theywho feldome agree in their own affairs, agree all in allLing the beat', as 'cis there (aid, Thefe have one mind, and ¡hall give their power and flrength unto the brag. The Scripture takes no- tice of this their union, not as agood thing, but as a ¡'range thing; that ten Kings, ofdifferent nations, of different intereftsanddif- pofitions, fhouid agree in giving their power and lrength, that is, their civil power, the power of their kingdoms to the beat' ; that is, to uphold his kingdom, which is, doubtlefs, the kingdom of Antichri(f. How may this fhame ,thole, who profefs a love to, and themfelves fubjeas of the kingdom of Chrif', for their divifions! Godlymen should cleave together, as the (cales of the Leviathan which cannot be fundred, in that which is good. And are not their differences and divilions, their difiances and breaches to be lamented ? which are fo verygreat and wide, that not only the thin circumambient air, but grofs circumventing bodies, may come between them. So far are they oftentimes from cleaving together, in duty to God and man, like the Bales of Leviathan, that they hang together (as we fay) like ropes of fand. Tile Evangelift Luke (peaks of a time (Aar, 4. 31. ) When all believers were like the (cales of Leviathan , Then the multitude of thorn that believed (that is, all they that believed) were of one heart,and of one foul. Here theywere not only joyn- ed, like the (cales of the Leviathan, but they were -joyned, as if they were all but one fcale. Godly men fhould carry it towards one another, as members of the fame body, and a&ed by the fame fpirìr. They who have relation to thofe levels ones mentioned (Ephef. 4. 4, 5, 9.) fhould labour to be one, should be found endeavouring (as 'tis there faid, ver. 3.)To keep the unity of thefpirit, in the bond of peace. Further, byway of allufion. The lufis of carnal men inge- neral, are like the fcales of Leviathan, Ricking fo clofe to them, and one to another, that the Spirit of God, in the Miniftery of his
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