764 Chap. 4r. s4nExpöfition upon the Boot, of J o8. ' Verf. 29. Sill-flow are turned with kin; into flubble. Bows and flings were of greet ufe in war, before the invention of guns. Thofe Benjamites were famous, who, as theholy Hilla- ry reports them, could fling /lanes at ahairs breadth, and not mifs(Judg.,aó. 16.)David went out againfiGoliah the Giant, weaponed only witha fling,and five hones.Slings are noconcern- ptibleweapons,feing with a flingfloneDavid overthrewGoliahthe Philifiine, who made thewhole hoff of Ifrael tremble. Yetfling flones,with thisSea,goliah,Leviathan,are turnedipto flrabble,that is, heeven blows them away like flubble, nor cares heat all for their blows. When the Pfalmifl. would Chew how eafily the Lord could fubdue the enemies of Ifrael, he prayeth againfi them in thismanner (Pfal. 83. a 3.) (Make them, o my God, as awheel, and a the Rubblebefore the wind, that is, render themweak, and altogether unable to domifchief. The Prophet defcribes the eats overthrow of the wicked enemy, by this metaphor (1/4. 40. 24.) 7bewhirl-wind f{iall take them away as flubble. And when the Prophet would Chew how mighty the Lord aflìfied A'brahamagaina his enemies,he faith (Ifa. 42. 2.) He gavethem ae the dull tohù (word, andas driven fable tohie bow. Now as inall there Scriptures it appears from,this fimilitude, howunable the firongefl are to hand before the Lord, fo, when the Lord would thew how impregnable this Leviathan is, he faith, Sling. Penes are no more to him than flubble ; yea, andhe doubles it, Verf 29. Dartsare tooted as Hubble. We haddarts in the 26th verfe, yet the original words differ; and cis very probable, thatas thewords differ, fo the weapons, . intendedby them, differed alto, though now unknown to us, and fo we want names for them, or knownot how to name them with a difference. Some interpret the word in dif1inbiiön from the former, not for darts call out of a mans hand, but for hones dart- ed out of engines. The Ancients ufedengines,wwhich cart pon derous Clones, with mighty violence agaìnfi walls and towers, to batter them down, as we do now with ordnance orgreat guns. Some havequeried,whether great guns were not ufed in that time The word may bear is But plainly it may lignifie an engine out of which (tones were flung. There Leviathan counts as Hobble, yea,_ He 7'tnguam fit+ pula hobentur ab ipfo machi- ne balks. Bea.
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