624 Chap 7. ` AnExpofition upon tbeBook ofJ O B. Verf. 12. of *hy riches, fo is thegreat andwidefea, there go the Ships, there is that Leviathan, whom thou hat made toplay therein. Again, Pfal. 7g, 13, r 4. Thou diddeft divide the Sea by thy ftrengtb, thou br.zkit the heads of the Dragons in the watcrs,tbou brakeft the bead ofLevia- than in pieces. But why cloth lob (peak this language ? In brick, the meaning is this.The Sea, you know,is a mighty boisterous and unruly crea- ture, and the Whal, is the ftrongett, mightiest and molt dreadful creature ha theSea ; the greatèft of the creatures, whether upon fra or land. The lea is the molt boif{crous of all the inanimate creatures, and the whale is the molt boilerons ofall living crea- tures : So that here jobgives initu:ce in two creatures which are the moll head. thong, violent and out- ragious in the whole crea- tion. TheWoale and the Sea. And he fees forth his own, weakncts, by the Antithelis ofthefe two creatures, furpalliug all,ín tirength- w'thwhich God only is able to grapple and encounter. And in asking, Am Ia fea sr a Whale, he may be conéived to (peak thus, Loru't ion feemeft to deal with me in a may beyond all thy dealings with the childrenofmen ; Thou carrie t thyfelftowards me, as ifI were moreproud, heady, hard to be reclaimed, than any man in the; world; thou feemft to takefuch a courji with me, as with the un- ruly fea, and with the boijierous whale, to keep me in compafs. He (peaks as if God laid too heavy an aftlition upon him, and took too thong a court to rame him or, as if he might be more gently dealt with, and that God needednot prepare filch bóuds and fetters for him, or lay filch law upon him, as upon the migh- ty lea; and the monlirous whale.. But for the w.oxds in particular. Noebarbs Am IaSea or a., Whale rum eyndomti. There area three things in, theSea,ípeciallycontìderable,at runs etemen- which lobnaight,have tín.aime here. wadi. Firtk; the turbulcncy`of the fea; the. lea is ecormy and turbulent, fo flormy. and turbulent, that-it threatneth to over- whelm'aJl;;to Vfum eff Deum overwhelna the ships, failing upon it,. toover .whelm the dry ati mare encompaflìng it, and it would do both, ifGod did not illi pedes, ac bound it, if he had not faid5 `Ilithertoyheilt thou come, but no fur - manu, con- tber, and herefhall thyproud waves e effayed ; Did not God put an firinsiffe .evcrlaltinglaw upon 'it, it ivouid be lawlefs;Gen. i to. the text pr®pterquaa faith, , That .the. gttbtrivg together;of waters , God calledSeas; esqugazi Go. d
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