Chap. 1. n Expoftion upontbe Booköf J O Verf. 22. 367 them all : He famifhes famine, and defiroyes deffratlicttit fclf. TheApotlle, Rem. 8. 35. muflers up (as it were) all evils toge- ther into a body, and dates any, or all to battei, with a beleiver, Who shall feparcte us frrm the love cf Gcel ? {hall trtbulatior, or 4fl0f, or ptrfecution, or famine, or nakednefs, or pertl,or fwerd? which of i{ fcfhatl undertake the challenge, or will you bring any more ? then, come life, or death, A,gels, or Principalities, or powers, things prtfeat, or things to come, height, or depth, or any other crea- ture : none or tkeft f 4g1s, nrr all ofthese joyned, (hall be able to feparate us from the love fGod, which is in Chrift 3efur our Lord. Every height ned Jai t.is a fpiricual Goliab, who in the name of the living G d;bids defiance to thishuge hofl,and they all run and trt mble b fore him. R:tyce (faith the Apoflle, James r. z. When you fall into diver, temptaions;, a belicv.r bath joy, not only when he gt pleth with a fiogle temptation, but let there come many, di- v;:rs temptations, variety of temptations, variety for kind, and multitude for, number, yet he rejoyceth in the midfl of all. neither fhalr tboa be afraid of the heats cf the earth.: Having thin lifted agodly man above the of aing reach of thole wo great evils,famine and deflruftion,want of good things and (p )yhog of their go,. ds;he proceeds to inflanceanother great a radicc rnm evil, wherein a godly man is exempt from, and let above fear; vita,viVens, Neither fhalt thou be afraid of thebrafl; of the earth. `eßia,fera. Beall; of the earth.] * The root ofthat word fignifies life, and *Ink= eom. fo any living creature,cfpeetally a wild beafl; becaufe they are fo P i` 'mum wive and full of life, therefore they are named from life. bem,lumhrbi- A id thefe are called the beafls of the earth.: tabileae,tum Ftrfl, becaufe beafls are produced from the earth,and theearth 4ui non cß ha . received a charge to produce them, Gen: t. 24, 25. And Clod faid, bitabìlir,dedu, let tieearthbring fo,tb the living creatures, after h s knde, and God °lunt d made the broils of the earth after bis kind. verb° me rurrerc,vel Orfecondly, Becaufe beafls have nothing but earth to live quiacælum up >n ; as men whole portion is only in creatures, are called mot, peperuo core of theworld,or men of theearth. to circa terrara The word fo * eartb)Ggnifies the whole earrh,habirable =or in- eurri:, vet goad omnia habitable;and though the earth (land flill,yet this word is &tiv d onemolìa cur.- (fay tome) from running : either,becaufe the heavens run round rantfoper fa_. about the earth, with a continual rotation,or motion. or becaufe cemrerr,c> all
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