Chap. to. An Expofttionupon the Book of J O B. VerC 8. 493 fpcahs, ( Pfal. 139. 5.) haft t cfet or formedme (Co the Hebrew,be- '.3r ri bind a;td before, and laid thine band upon me. l'ormofli ire. Fourthly, By together roundabout,we may underfland all with- out man, which man bath about him. 'Thouhail made and fa- fhioned,not only my body, but my cflatc, my honour,my friends, my children (children round about the Table, PIal. 128.2.)Thou Per cireuittura hall given me all that I have about me ; Whatfoever I am, I am amniaetiomil madeand fifhioned by thine hands : So thephraCe is ufed, Chap. m't, ä fimi 19. 9, 10. Hebath fiript ate of my glory, and taken the Crownfrom nemcrn;wí _ t, my head, he barb deftroyed me on every fide; or, he bath deflroyed faeulratcr,l;ha. me round about, that is, All that he bath made round about me, res, faailiae he bath taken away fromme; he bath fiript me of all he once ttniverjam. clothed me with. Mr. Brougb:on trantlates much to that fenfe, Thou haji fafnioned and made me in every point; that is, Look whatfoever I am confidecable in, under what noti- on fo ever I may be taken, Thou baJt made me and fafhioned me in all. °brerve, Firfl, Then making of man now,ia the work of God, as well as the make sngof' theAft man was. job dothnot fay, The Lord did once make and fafhion man, but thine bands bave made me : He afcribethhis own making tö Pfarura nibi[ God, as well as Adams. The firuCfure and frame of nature is the aifu eft hi work ofGod, not of Nature : Nature and natural camas are no- ajiv,insrum ope- thing but the order in which God worketh. God turneth or runord., Bent; changeth, flops, or Ccts them forward as he pleafeth. Second cau- fes work purely at the willofGod; though means be ufed by man, yet the etfeCt is Gods. Corn groweth in the field by the hand of God. You will fay; What then doth the husbandman? What doth the earth ? What do the Sun and Rain ? Do not all thefe work ? All thefe are nothing but the order wherein; and by which the hand ofGod makes the Corn to grow; for let all thole fecond caufes work as hard as they can, yet the Corn grows not, unlefs God fpcak the word ; His Reps, not thehusbandmans, drop fatnefs , It is he, not the Sunor the Rain,which makes the vallies timid thick with Cornito laugh and fing. As in fpirituaP, fo in naturals, he that planteth, and he that watereth is no- thing, but God that giveth the increafe. The PfTlmifl (peaks ex- clutiively of man, as to the point ofmans making, and he putteth an emphalis upon it, as ifman did not take nc tice enough, if at all,
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