ChV. 41. EXpfitiOn FIN; the Book,ofJ o I. Ec langhethat thefkaking of thefpear. Ceruononti To (hake a fpear, is as it were, to threaten one witifa fpear ; met commina- and fo to brandifh a fword againft an enemy, is to defie him, or tionem.Aquin to bid him do his vvorft, or it tells him that you will do your bell toovercome and conquer him. Leviathan [corns when any threa- tenhimwith their weapons in hand. If you flakeyour fpear at bina, he laughs at it ; that is, heflights it, he regards it nor. ris the famewordwhich is ufed (rob 39.22.) concerning the horfe, oat fear be mocheth or laughed, ; that is, he laughs at thofe things which give occafion, yea, juft caufe of fear, and are indeed fuch asmoll are afraidof. So cloth Leviathan, He laughs at the flaking of thefpear, Elipbaz. faith of a godly man (Yob 5.22.) at de- flruElion and fanasne he'hall laugh? The godly man is fa fortified with a promife and affurance of proteEtion and provifionby God, that neither [word nor famine can daunt his [pint, yea, he, as it were, laughs at them, as Leviathan at the flaking of a fpear. ThusI have paffed, or polled rather,through there fourverfes, the general fenfe of them all beirp, the fame, and that to (hew thatLeviachan is foarmed by nature,-that noartificial arms can hurt This part afro of Leviathans defcription,is taken by Bochartus as a further proof, that the Leviathan here fpoken of, is the Cro- codile, whofe Rates are not penetrable by the force of any wea- pon ; whereas (faith he) the skin of the Whale gives paffage to the forcible ilroke or thruft of any(harp-edged t or ftlarp-point- ed infirutnent. For anfwer to this, Ihave no more to fay than what bath been raid, at the 15th, i6thand i7th verfes of this Chapter, concern- ing the fcales of Leviathan , to which I refer the Reader ; and fluff pafson,when I havegiven three or four hints, by wayof im- 0:1: provement from the whole. 'Firfi, If the Lord bath madea creaturethat noweapon canhurt, thenlardy the Lord himfelf is exalted above all hurtfrom the crea- tare,; ask is [aid in another place of this Book (Choi?. 35. 6.) choofinne", what doll-thou againfi him ? or if thy tranfireffi- was bemodatlyed, what doff thou unto him ? that is, thou canftnot hireetodwnh thy fin. Though men by fin layat him, as with floosd and floor; though they thaw theft flieg-ftomesof blafphe- my Verf. 29, 765 :IV
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