772 Chap. 41.. ,ßínExpofttion upon"the Nook of J o B. Verf. 3Z mutt neceffarily underhand the great and wide Sea, by that Deep in the Text, which Leviathan maketb to boy( like a pot , and by that Seaalto, which he (by his boyfierous motion) snakes likea pot of ointment.. Thus the Lord in this verfe, hath told us what work Leviathan makes when he is below in the deep, and railing himfelf towards: the furface of the Sea ; in the next he tells us, what he Both when he fwimsaloft. Vert. 32. Eemaketb4 path topineafter him, &c. That is, he fwims with fuch force and violence neer the fun. face of the water, that you may fee a plain path behind him ; he makes a great foam or froth upon the waters, which Chines likea beatenway, Tis good inone fence, tomake a path thine after , that rrs,, by-thehailers and rigbteoufnefs of our lives. The path of the righteous fhines as the morning light (Prey. q.. z S.). A righteous man walketh not in dark, black, defiled, filthypathes; his are paths of light, and fuch as lead to that bleffed inheritance among the Saints in light. But the path of an unrighteous man, (hines only like Leviathans path, with an ugly foam or froth, or at befia 'tis but like the (pining of a pinching frofi, or of an aged head, 1Eflimabit which isnot whitenefsr, but hoarinefs, and fo'ris hill like Levia- bnutem than: path ; ask followeth in the latter part of the verfe, Vulg. One wouldthink the deep to be hoary, of atum egut tanuat9'ïn- The word liignifies the hoariitefs of the headof an old mans Cdnaefe re mare Whenwe grow old, our hair changeth colour, and the head is Exeinto tu- hoary. Leviathan makes fuch a foamypath, that one would think midi lato mari, the Sea gray-headed, or that a hoary froh covered the Sea. That that imago. metaphor was often ufedby the old Poets. Aurea,fed flu- All I (hall fay from this verfe, is, to take notice of the good eerulamcanont p"evidence of God, that this hurtful and dangerous creature Le- Virg18 Ænï- viathan gives fuch warning where he is. While he lies below in ud.dofcrtben: theSea he cando no hurt; and as often as he raifeth himfelf up, he navale beilummakes a path to Chine, he makes the Sea hoary, by whichwe,may Augutliatt; the more eafily difcover and avoid him ; whereas otherwife, he Anton might do mifchief unawares, or eafl furprize the unwary s igio Y P Y Pa(° fumis incatruit fender, 'Tis mercy, when they who, like Leviathan, are able to knife,Catullus do
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