chap, 38, anEx onion :von the Bo of o a. Vert. g. 6t omea(urcd houfe , a bou'e having a due proportion of longitude and latitude, of heighth and depth. When the fearchers fens by t)iI fei carne back and repotted the fiate of the land which they hadviewed , we faw ( laid they ) men of a great fature, (Nurñb. i3. 32,) The Text is , men of meafures , vail and tall men. Little things have little need of meafuting , and 'cis fcarce worth while to do it : But as great things are greatly to b: admired,fo they areworthy to be meafured. How grear,how marvelous is that myflical City and Temple , whofe meafures were taken and [hewed to Ezekiel in ah ifon (chap i40 great Z. 48. v. 30,31,32,33, 34, 35.) the mac God only , who is himfelf altogether immeafú able ( and therefore greate& of all) can lay, and hash laid the meafures of it. 1410o hath laid the meafures thereof ? If thouknowefi. The Lord puts this fuppofition again to his quefiion ; before,' Declare , if thou hall underffanding , fo here , if thou k.00weli. Some read thefe words ironically,thus , Declare, for th;u (doubt- kin oq: "dzm left) knoweß' , who bath laid the meafures thereof, Thou art fo f"t es. Ju"- wife and skilful a maw, that cutely thou canfl declare this fecret. Mr. Broughton hits the fame fenfe ; For thou wilt be skilful , rhst is , thought skilful , and taken among men for (no babe) .a know- ing man; and therefore canil give me a good account ofthe mea- Yfenfuáré; fu- furesof the eatth,both as to its circumference and diaaaeter ;that ,nisur promeu- is, what the compafs of it is, and what the depth through the furaa$ì1a, gua middleofthe earth is. Thus the words carry in thema cutting i- atiquidns u- ron , the matter being fo much beyond Jobs knowledge,of which ramue,aut pro theLord faith tohitFor thou knowe(f ; which we render,lf thou retafa menfu- krowefl ? Butthe Hebrew particle (rD) is rather and oftner (I renfurasejus fuppofe) ufed in a caufal , than in a conditional figniFcation. puta, cfrrstxnfe- Here is maybe Paid , what difficulty is there in this Qitefiior, to im a. Rho laid the meafures of the earth? fob might eafily anfwer, God ti adnu fi3'e laid them. Therefore I conceive , rnt only , } ea not fo much, dun!t,"" t' who laid them, as how they were laid , or what they are , is Fife. here intended. The mofi learned and fiudied Mathematician§ could never give a right meafure of the earth , nor yet agree abcut that mat- ter. They meafure it fitti as to the depth of it, what the dia- meter
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