Chap. 12 An Expofttion upon the Bookof Job.Verfto. 219 Yea not only men and Scoffs, and Birds, &c. bur Trees and Plants,the Grafs in the Field,and the Flowers in your Gardens, live by the power of God The Trees in Winter are as dead, their Leaves fall o..and their Fruit is gathered,theFields are un- cloathed and naked : but when the Spring comes, Grabs comes, Trees bud and bring forth fruit again, (hall we afcribe this to the Sun ? (hall we go no further than the feafon for this ? and fay, the Spring is come, and therefore theGrafs comes ? No In his band is the Soul of every living thing :: there is a life in the Grafs, and it is of God that eheGra(s grows,that the trees blothome and bring forth. In his hand is the Soul Of every living thing. Sometimes the word is reftrarned to man, Gen. 2. Eve the fir ff woman, was fo called, becaufe the was the Mother of all living, yet the was the Mother only of living man. Sonic take it fo here, implying that the Lord whomade all Souls, hath the Soul of man efpecrally in his hand,but we need not reffrain it thus ; fee - ing the left claufeof the verfe (peaks exprefly of the care ofGod towaras man : In whofe hand is the Soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind. Or, The fpirít of all mans flefh, So Mr. Broughton reads it Breathand Spirit are often ufed promifcuoufly, and Rua!) figni- fies both. Here 'cis taken for the breath or breathingof man, which is min but an aEt of life. In whole hand is the breath of all mankind. Spiritus eftfíß° Daniel makes report toBelfhazzar ( Dan. 5.23. )what God had tus,few refrret- done for his father Nebuchadnezzar, in what great glory he had r m!ived 4. fee himup,e9-e. and then reproves him, The Godin whole hand thy breath is, andwhofe are all thy ways, haß thounot glorified. The God in whore hand thy breath is, Belfhazzar was a great Prince, the greateft Monarch at that time upon the earth, he command- ed all, he had the breath ofmany in his hand, as Daniel there fpeaks of his father, whom he wouldhe flew, and whom he would he kept alive, fuch was the porker of that great Monarch ; but then he minds him,rhat he was not Lord of his own life, Thy breath is in the hand of God, if God will, he can keep thee alive, and if God will he can take away thy life.. It is true of Gcd in the F f 2 fulleft
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