223 Chap. 19. AnExpofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf.12: makes fo real' a defence again[' the anger of God as the ay pr - ers of his people doe ; yet God will breake through thefe he will make a way for his anger through thefe, they fhall not flop him much leffe (hall the preparations or flrength of wicked men flop him. As the weakneffe ofGod is flronger then man, fo the weakneffe of prayer is fironger with God, then all the ftrength ofman. If prayer cloth not flop his wrath humane power thail never be able to give it the leaft check. All our thongholds and forts, will be but as the firfl ripe figs, which be- ing (haken fall into the mouthof the eater, when once the Losds Armie makes a battery againft us. His troopes will not turne till they have fullfilled all his pleafure; They have raifed up their way again, me. And encamp round about my Tabernacle. TheLords troopes being railed , they railed up their way, and marched, and now they fit downe and encamp round a- bout diftrefled lob ; They encamp round about my Tabernacle ; That is , about all that I have, or my whole po(fef ions. Heres a orange fight, an Armie encamping againfi a Tabernacle; lob might fay, what needs fuch warlike preparations againft me? alas, mine is but a Tabernacle ; I am not fortified in a Caille, or encompaf%d with impregnable walls andBulwarkes ; They encamp againft my Tabernacle; A Tabernacle is but a weake houle, weaker then our ordinary houles ; A Tabernacle can hardly keepe out the raine or !land againft the winde. How then can it keepe out an Army, or Rand their forme ? A Taber- nacle is a moveable dwelling , faflned with coards and Rakes, without foundation ; yet here yob fpeakes, as ifF God had brought all his Artillery planted his batteries, and engines of warre, to beat it down ; He loath encamped round about my Ta- bernacle. Hence note ; e/í11 that man bath in the creature amounts but to a Taber- nacle. ?ob was a great man, and he had a great elate, an elate foundation'd and fetled upon as much flrength as the creature ätfually can afford, yet all was but a Tabernacle, whole coards are
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