37o Chap. 5. AnExposition tapon the Book of JOB. Verf. 23. And fer. s 5. 3 'i wit over them four kindes, faith the Lard, the sward to Fla,, and the dogs to tear, and the foavles of the heaven; and the beafts of the earth to devour and deftroy. You fee God can have an Army any where if he pleafeth, an Army . of dogs to deftroy, an Army of Fowles of theair,an Army of the beasts of the earth, to fubdue a rebellious people. And EMk. 14. zt.' This is one of the four fore judgements that God denounceth against ferufalem, The fwcrd, and the famine, and noyfärree beafts, and the pefitlence. Thus in a judicial manner they were very terrible and dreadful, and fo were nurnbred among the forest evils, or judgments which God Pent upon a Nation, for their wickednefs. To all or any of rhéfe wayes this promife may be inlarged. Thói>nshalt not'be a- fraidof the natural cruelty', the cafual huttfulnefs, Or the judick ary rage of.beafts,when fent by. God withcomntiffion to punifli the bealtlinefs of risen. How this cometh to pals, that beafls of the earth hurt not godly men, is laid down in the next verfe, which I shall a while open,and then give you forne Notes and Obfervations from both together> yea*, 2 3. For thou (halt be in league with the ftanes, of the lei beafis of the field ¡hall be at pears with thee, This verse contains the reafon why he shouldnot be afraid of the beafts of the field; ; and hereis fomewhat more got into the reafou,than was before in the promife ; the groundof the pro° mile is higher, and carried farther than the promise it fell. The promise was to bedelivered from,the fear of beaftsiand that thou naayeft be certain of i *, know God will not fuffer fo much a (tone todo theehurt ; thouflsatt be at league not only with the beatsof theearth, but with the floncs of the field. rTi , Thou (halt be in league). The word is frequenelr,ufed in the old aradïee+fl Teftament,to fignife that folemngracious covenant ofteconcili $lègíi quïo a anion between `God and man,eftablifhed in the bloodof ChrifL 3egurotur perfo- A lea ue,or covenant is a very folemn a&,an aetof reafon and tpæ, inter quas g ce res & con of thehighest reafon, an aCt of judgment and of the deepest deliP ditionesprop- beratiomtherefore it may be doubted howa league can be entred ter quas fædt+: with (tones which have no life,or with beasts which have no rea= instur> Ewtt. fon.We read(Gen.311.4T.)of a league or covenant madeator up= on an heap of lanes, between Yard' and La4ari; but this is very
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=