Chap. 6 AIN Expajtioauponthe Book of ''JOB. Vert'. 4. 427., Effzcientcaufe The arrowes of the Al. From the ¡r mighty. 2. Eft.a They drinkupmyfpirit. They ar e the arrows of the Almighty, Shaddai '; Of which word we h avefpoken in the former Chapter,verfè 17th at large, it being one of henames ofGod,notin g out his power andomni- potence ; There he calls them the chaltnings of ( Shaddai ) the Almighty : And here, The Arrows of ( Shaddai ) the Almigh. tÿ, a.lecaufe, they are tent out from him. His arme 'bends and draws the bow. And 2. Becaufe,of the mighty force and fleength, in which they are Pent home to the marke. The ldrength in which thofe arrowes come,and the depth of thewounds which they make,fpeak an Al- mighty arme drawing the bow.None but an Almightyarme can thoot an arrow thus decp,up to the feathers in the foul and fpirit: It is not the power of all the tyrants in the world to !hike or thoot thus deep. The foul of the Saint hath fuch armour upon it, as no bodily weapon can enter. And therefore the Martyrs, when all was wound in their flab, (poke and triumph'd, becaufe their fpi- rits were whole, anduntoucht, Onely a fpirit can (hoot arrowes into our fpirits. We find it frequent among heathen Poets and others, to de- _Net, (Teo, ar_ fcribe their gods arm'd with bowel and arrowes.And in that they cu, j?.culÑ, fa. fhadowed the power towound the minds of men ; and to wound gitrrfq ;ormánr, them fuddenly and fecretly: The Scripture dcfcribes the true intelligentes God thus, furnifhed with his Quiver of arrows, and his Bowe; gin15 iPl erunta ( Pfal. 7. t3.) He ordaineth his arrows. againf>t the perfec,ators. de:,qu4ferlant God hath anarrow for thewounding of his enemies, and an ar eminurquod row for the wounding of his friends : He hath arrowes for both propriunt Dee and both are wounded;and both are wounded with poyfond tie- videtur, Bold. rie arrowes, yet with a vet difference ; thefe are wounded and poyfoned, that they may be healed, and they are wounded and poyfoned that they may be deflroyed. I. Swift 2. Secret 3 Sharpe 4, Killing I will make mine arrowes drtsnke with blood Iii2 Arrowes art inf{ruments. D ut.32 42. ) . They
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