6 11 Chap. 7. An Expofitiese upon the Book of J 0 B. Vert. 20; loath about as an Abaddon or Apollyon , the defroycr and devou- rer of men : The care of Chriff prompts him to a like vigilancy, He goeth about preferving ; his ails of prefcrvation runs parallel cenofcio me with that of the enemies oppofition : God watches that his peo- ples vigitore ple may have fume quiet reft andand flecp.As the Flory reports of ramvos, ut Alexander the Great, that he told his Souldiers , I watch more than ¡ omnes any of you all, that you may fometimes have quint fleep : his care dil- pgtos capers enfed with fome of their carelefsnefs. It is molt true of God, oPr;r,triau. p 1. g. he wakes for ever, and he watches for ever, to prefctve us, that we may fleep in quictnels and confidence. Solomon reproves force fecure ones, who are as they , who flap on the top ofthe Matt (Prov. 23. ) But the Saints may fleep (in regard of fear, though not of endeaver ) on the top of the malt , while they remember that both the Helm and the Winds arc in Gods bands. As our fpiritual ethics. fo our temporal are kept as with agar rifon in their degree)by the power of God through faith unto fal vation: Si much for the Title, O thou preferver of men, Why haft thoufit me mamark againft thee;fa that Ian; a burden to my [ci ? me./ Why haft thou jet me at a mark againft thee? ] The word fig- Occurritob a nifics to mect one, to come the oppofite way ; Hence force vian fatlus tranflite this, why baft thou fet me contrary to thy fclf? becaufe fair. he that meets another, comes the contrary way, the way oppo- auarepofuiflil fife to him o LYky bait thou put me as an objell againft thee ? or, as an 1fl trarium, enemy to thee ? the obj:& (lands direEly before us , and we defile ino Vulg. to have an enemy right before us. And the word may be taken I occur¡um Y Y tibi,Pagn. fimply for an enemy, or adverfary,who (landsoppoftc tous,both Obje6umtibi; in his a&ions and defgnes, and againft whom we direú both oÌg dicutum ours. We render , Wherefore haft thou fet me as a mark ? and in guemfem- that fuits the feule of the word fully, bccaufe a mark at which per impingas, a man aims, is (et in dire& oppofition to him ; we level our ar- Yarab: rows or bullets at the mark right before us, job thought him. (elf thus placed; Whyhaft thou fet me as a mark to meet with, or intercept thy fhot,thy arrows,thybullets, thy blows upon my brea (l? Wilt thou make the bofom of thy (ervants like thebrea(l of an enemy, a Bat to receive all thy arrows ? A mark is as a (landing enemy ; and an enemy is a moving mark to (hoot at r a mark is a livelets enemy, and an enemy is a living mark : his sncaning then is; Thou haft let meagainfl thee, as if i we nere myan ,
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