Chap. 6... ------:_._ ;An Expoft'tion upon theBool¿of 1 OB. . Verf;t. ( fc. the Stars ) cannot be numbred, neither the randof the Sea meafured, f ó will I multiply the feedofmy fervant David.Meafure is taken bothof the content, and extent of things ; The fand of the Sea is itnmeafurable bothwayes, it cannot (as we (peak of hu- mane impoffìbilities)be meafured by the poleor by the veffel. And In I. King. 4.29. it is. laid, Godgave. Solomon wifdome andunder- jtanding exceedingmuch,and largenefrofheart as the fandofthe Sea, t hat is as the fand encompaffes and takes the Sea in its armes, fo Solomon had a heart, comprehending all the depthsand oceans of knowledge; he had the compafsofall learning, in his underllan- ding. Hence, when a man attempts a thing impoffible, we fay t& Arenam nets- him proverbially. Thou meaf erejt. thefond. . so. Thírdly,the fand of the Sea is applyed in Scripture,to note the exceeding weight and heavinefs ofa thing that inftance is preg- Szulti mover nant for it (Prov. 23. 7.) A (lone is heavy, and thefand isweighty, 9ntglerábilet., but a fools wrath.is heavier than both; when Solomonwould thew us, how intollerably burthenfome, the manners ofa wickedman are, he compares them to a ftone and to the fand, The wrath of a wicked man is very weighty, but (by the way) the wrath of God is incomparably more weighty: Wrath proceed- ingfrom extreamfolly, is weighty, but wrath proceedingfrom in finite tvifdome,is.infinitely weighty The Wrath of a foot upon'his brother, is heavier than a ftone, or than the fand', How heavy then will the wrath of ,themolt wife God be, upon that fool ? Yeitistcej1 are- It is further-confiderable, that,he faithnot barely, heavier than n egenzu fell- the fand, _(any fand is very heavy) but heavier than thefand of the 114410-1445 (9 Sea ; Rivers have fand, and dry pitshave fand, but 'Sea-fand is /luring, PI in, the vafteft and the heavieft land, 16.3nat,lifl. iib. a, Again, He (peaks not in the fingular number, Heavier than the fand of the Sea ; but the Hebrew is plural )heavier than thefand of the Seas ; as if job had laid, if thou.íhouldeft íhovel up all thefand,that is upon the fhores ofall the Seas'together,on a heap, it would not be fo heavy,as my cal'amity", In filch Hyperbhlies or high íirains of eloquence, job rhetoricatcs about his fäd'condi- tion, as if he refolved to put more weight into his expreffions as he found more weight put into his aflfiL` ions. Hence obterve, Afielzons are heavy-burthens. ' The j idgmentsof God upon wicked men, are, frequently in Scripture called burthen ,aid they are heavy burthens; Ifa. 15 i; Wt read of the bierthenof Moab, that
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