798 Chap. 42. an Expofition upon the Book of Jo s. Verf. 2. time to buy land, when the City is ready co be taken, and the whole land like to be loll ? yes, faith God, Buy the field for money, feat the evidences, and take witneffes ; for thus faith the god of Ifrael(verf. r i.) houfes, and fields, and vineyards (hall be pofeffed again in this land. Am not I able to bring you back again ? And therefore after Jeremy had confeffed in prayer to the Lord (verf. r7.) Nothing is too hard for thee ( The Hebrew is, hidden from thee, or wonderfolto thee ; becaufe hard things are hidden fromus, orange andwonderful to us. The Prophet,I fay, having faid this to the Lord in prayer) the Lord [aid to him (verf. 27.) Is any thing too hardfor me ? And to the famepoint, the Lord fpake again (Zech. 8. 6.)Tbus faith the Lord of lulls, if it be marvellous in the eyes ofthe remnant of this people (name- ly, that Jerufalem Fhould be reflored) Fhould it alfo be marvellous in mine eyes, faith the Lord of hofïs , to perform what was faid (ver.4.) There (hall yet eld men, and old women dwell in the 'rests of Jerufalem, and every man with hú flaff in his hand for very age, and the freets of the City (hall be fall of boys andgirls, playing in the fireets thereof. Who could beleive this ? but it was the will of God it Fhould be fo : And therefore he faid, If it be marvellous in your eyes, Fhould it be fo in mine eyes ? Yeu think this cannever be brought about. But mull it needs be mar- vellous in my eyes, becaufe it is fo in yours ? or (as the margin hath it) mull it needs be hard or difficult to me, becaufe 'tis fo toyou ? The fameword which lignifies marvellous, 6gnifies dif- ficult, becaufe that which is difficult and hard we marvel at : But faith the Lord, becaufe this thing is marvellous in your eyes, mull it be fo in mine, who can do every thing ? And we mayconceive, that when Job fpake thus, he began to have Come hope of his re- Rauration. He had loll all, children, and health, and firength, and elate, all was gone, and he many timesgave up all for gone, and fpake defpairingly, as to a reflirution; but nowGod having fpoken of what he haddone, jobs faith and hope revived in theft words,/ know that thou sanfldo every thing; and among other things thou cana reflore all to me again, thou cant give me as much health and lrength of body, as many children, as full an elate,as ever I had. Secondly, This truth is matter of great terreur to the wicked: As God can.tirengthen the weak,fo he can weaken the lrong;and, as
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