23 o Chap. 19, etin E'xpofition upon the Bookof }o. B. Verf.lo ( Chap. 1o. 8.) Thy hands have made me, andfaXaned me to- gether round about.; He that is made and fafhioned, is made and fafhioned round about; Yet this addition round about hath its . force, noting theexact and particular care of God in. fetting up the whole frame, of his outward man in every part. Here the workof judgement is as large, and exa&, as the work of '`mercyonce was : He wmformerly fajbioned round about,and now he was deflroyed roundabout. Further, This exprel ion round about, may have eitherits re- ference 'aridly to a building of Defence , a Fort, or Cattle, which when it is befieged (as he profecutes it in the latter words) when Forces lye round: ahoue it, they batter and af- fault it on every fide, till at lait they level( and flight it, on all tides, not leaving one Tower, or Pinnacle ftanding. Or it may referre to the allufion ofa Tree,, in the next claufe of thisVerfe, which whenwe would root up, we digge round about it, and then pull it downe. Thou haft deflroyed me round about ; It was the envious and malicious complaint of Satan ( Chip. s. so. )" that Godhath made an hedge or wall, ( which was as an impregnable Fortification ) about Yob's eaate and-perfon. Haft thou not made an hedge about him, and about hic houe; and about allthat hebath on every fade ? He dothnot onely fay, Thou haft made an hedge about him, fc: his_perfon,, and about his- honfe, and about all that he bath ( which is very particular,) but he Thbjoynes on every fide Yob once had an hedge round about him on every fide, but now his defence was on every fide re- moved. This complaint ofyob ¡landsin dire& oppofition to that. of Satan. Hence obfeave ;_. That even univerfali defru ion (in regard of outward things) may be the lot of the beft and holieft of the fcrvams of Ccd: ?ob was not onely touched, (. as Satan defired ) but de- ftroyed ; not onely were the Pinnacles of his houfe pull'& downe, or thebattlements and. beauty of it defaced, but, the Pillars, of it loofed, and the foundation razed; All that was deftroyable was deftroyed. The fervants of God have fome- what .that, can never be deftroyed ;. 'Tis our comfort, that though
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