Chap. 7. An Expoftion upon the Boekof J OB, Verf. r z Secondly,They (as the fca)wrack and over-whelme thoufands, and are not at all moved with their out cries. Thirdly,They(as the fea) have huge treafures in their houles yet all fatisties not their defires, they are as greedy, as ifthey were not worth a groat. Look uponman, in the other comparifon, He is a whale, a de- vourer. in the wont of bruites, you may fee the picture of mans nature. They who have power to do what they will,, and will do ( when their advantage is in it) to the utmoft of their power ; There ase your Leviathans upon dry land. Senacherib was a mighty whale, gaping to (wallowup the people of God, and therefore the Lord exprcffes his dealing with him in a word very futable to this fence (2 King. t 9. 28.) Becaufe thy rage againji me, and thy tumult is come up into mine tares, therefore I mill put my haoke in thy nofe, andmy bridle in thy lips, &c. See how God ufes him, Senacherib carne raging and threatning to fwallow all up ; God ufes him like an unruly beak of the earth, or like a devouring fish ofthe fea, Heputt a hookiu lür nofe, It is laid of Levathan, that he (corns the Hooke and the Angle, Job 4.r.Canfi tbou drawout Leviathan with an booke? implying that no hooke, rm tackle is firong enough tohold this Sea monlier, but God bath a hook can hold him. Some tren ate like this fea montier, no tackling of mans making will hold them, no power under heaven can flop :hem ; then the Lord prepares his engines and infiru- rrtents, he can make a hook will catch Senacherib the great whale; as ifhe were but afprat, I willput mybookinto hisnofe, and turn him about orpull him up. What devouring enemies have come out againfl us, threatning to fwallow,or,as the Moabites Paid of the children of Ifrael NUM. 22 4) to lickupall that were roundabout, as the Ox licketh up the grafi ofthe field. Yea, they thought as it is Paid of Levia- than) that ahoy coulddraw up Jordan into their mouths, that is, remove the greatefl difficulties, and overcome all oppofìtion. But how often hath God put a bridle into the lip, of the horfe, and a hook into the nofe of thefe Whales? Further, if we confider the words, as Jobs queflion in applica- tion unto himfelf, .e/in I a Whale.? Am 1 a Sea ? Obferve, Man is apt to hat* good thoughts of bimfelf, job wouldnet be the Whalc,or the Scat Secondly note, Mata
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