Chap.r2. An Expofition upon the sook, of JOB. Verf. 7. 20,' They who would bring God down to their wills, make laws for God, and they who make a law for God, ac4 as iftheyhad made God. Every thing roll receive the rule ofits being where it re- ceives abeing. JOB Chap. r 2, Verf 7,8,9, ro. But asknow thebeaf s, and theyfh'll teach thee, and thefowls ofthe air, and they'all tell thee. Orfpeakto theearth,, andt'hall teach thee , and the fillies of the Sea 'balldeclare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all thefe,that the handoftheLord hath wrought this ? Inwhofe hand is thefoul of everyliving, thing, and the breath of all mankinde. OB having checked thepride of his friends , in the four firft J verses ofthis Chapter ; and oppofed the opinion of Zophar , in the 5th and 6th; He iii this context brings out his roof, which anti p!:raq; he takes as low as.low can be, that fo hemight raiféhis conviai- fpiei p eta on the higher. He deals not with him upon the di$ates of hu- poentiaDel, mane reaafon, orupon the authority of Scripture ; but from the qu6domnia voice ofnature , from the common cry and confent of all the vat q6:1 ÿiæ r' creatures : He convocates a fynodof bea.fts and birds, offence- mibi incognita lefs trees, and mute fiches, to give their fuffrage for the detercni- -effnr, nom v3. nationof the controverfie, betwixt him and °his friends. bs racenribus. docent ne h&c Asknow the haftsand theyfhall tell thee; creativd,Mott, As ifJob had faid , FriendZophar , thou haft difcourfed about the providenceof god , as if it were all riddle ormiftery , which none but learned rnen could teach,and none but men of extraordinary parts couldunderRand; Butfurely thou needeft not fpeakf high,or in the clouds,for as much as the beasts of the earth, thefowls of''the air, &c. may be our mailers to teach uss the wifdome andpower of God, though men fìsould be filent. Theft have a voice , theft have tongues14 trumpets toproclrima providence in ordering the world, ami that Goddoth, both .heaven and earth, whatfoever pleafcth D d 3, hurt :.
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