Chap. 41. iAn Expdfition upon the Book of f o B. Verf. 3f. All that I (hall add is this : It were well for us, if in this cafe we could be like Leviathan, if we could harden our felves, or inureour felves to hardfhips , to lye with (harp flonc:s under us. Surely our fle(h is much too tender and foft, and our skin too de- licate for the endurance of a lodging upon hard fiones,and sharp pointed things. The Apofile gives a futable word of advice to Timothy(a Tam. 2. 6.) Do thon endure hardfhip, as agoodfould;er of fetus C'hriff. We fhould labour to endurehard thip, and to fare bard, and to lye hard. Edmond, a Saxon King in this Land, wascalled Iron-fides. I fear there are few Iron-fides among us, fuch I mean, as are fit and ready to endurehardfhip,to fuffcr hard things at Chrifts call, and for his Name fake: We fhould be con- tent, as the Church once was (Pfd. 68. 3 o.) to lye among the pots, yea, as Leviathan, upon thepot-fheards, in that behalf. The old Martyrs were patient, while they lodged in a coal - houfe, and ruffeled among the ftraw. Though the Lord doth notcxercife with fuchhard(hips, yet'ds the duty of every Chriffian to get his heart into readinefs and willingnefs to endure them. Though all the followers of aria are not honoured with fufferings for him; yet they who have nor, at leaf+ who pray not that theymay have, a fpirit of fuffering, are not worthy to follow him, nor to be calledhis Difciples, (Mar, to. iii. Mat. 16.24. Luke 14. 26.) 76p Verf. 31. Hemaketb the deep to boyl like a pot, he maketh the Sea likea pot of ointment. As Leviathan troubles Sea-men, fo he troubles the Sea ; he retumoceonuxa macerates andvexeth the waters, he difturbs the whole Ocean turbat.Jun, where be is, or wberefoever be comes. This is illuftrated by a double fimilitude ; Firff, of a boyling por, Hemaketh the deep Ofaboiling pot. Secondly, He maketh the Sea like a pot of oint- ment: Or, as Mr.Brougbton renders it,He fees the Sea as afpicers Kettle ; that is, all in a fume and foam. Spices mingled ina ket- tle tomake ointment, boy) vehemently upon the fire ; any li- quor boylingis moved,and the more it boyles,the more it moves. ThusLeviathan bluftring in the deep, cauCeth it to look like a boyling pot, or like a pot of ointment. This thews the force cf Leviathan; he makes fuck a buffe), that he, as it were, raiCech a F f f f f fiorm
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