Chap. i2. An Expo f fion upon the Bookof JOB. Verf. e 5. 247 earth. When the Lord threatens (Dent, 28 23.) I trill tnak,ç the Heavens over you as brats he prefently adds, and the earth. underyouPall be as iron if the Heavens be brats, the earth will he iron. We have this concatenation of caufes elegantly fet forth (Hof2.21,22.) I will hear the Heavens (faith God) and they (hall hear the earth,, and the earth (hall hear the corn and the wine, and the oyl, and theypall hear Jezreel. Jezreel mull have corn andwine, and oyl ; corn& winemutt be had from fertile earth, the earthcannot be fertile without berigneHeavens , the Hea- vens can thew no kindnefs to the earth, either by moylling ihowers, or quickning heat, without orders from God. Hence the heavens cry to God , and the earth to the heavens, and the corn to the earth, and Jezreel to thecorn, that he may be fed. If godwithholdeth the waters ofheaven, the earth drys up ; We are fed by the bleating ofGod upon fecönd caufes. Again, He fendeth themout, and theyoverturn the 'earth. This latter claufe doth not hold out the mercy oppofire to the judgment in the former,but it holds out a fecond judgment. For as there, the withholding ofthe waters was a judgment , fo here, thefending ofthem out is a judgement too. When God with- holdeth the waters over long , the earth cannot bear fruit , and when God fendeth out the waters overmuch, the fruit which the earth bears is ftifeled and choacked. Waters are ordinarily fent to refresh and revive the earth , but here theyare fent to over- turn the earth. He fendeth them. r1t?v The word fignifies the fending out of a meffenger upon tome Si miter;; ,r command. Waters receive acommiflion to flay at home, and'guar raignora they receive a commiflion togo out in a way of judgment ; God nunciu n defé- ives them a precept a writ Go and overturn the earth He rentes our ju- loofens theirbonds,and enlargeth their borders, to puniíh thofe $é da me who will not be kept in bounds. Mofes defcribing the deluge bi demannum. (to which Job here as force conceive alludes) faith, 4 ll thefoun- Pin. tains ofthegreat deep were bro>;?n up , and the windows ofheaven wereopened (Gen.7,t i,) both the under- waters, and the upper- waters were till that day imprifoned and kept clofe-by the decree cf
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