I I 4 Chap, 22. As EXpOlitiOnupes the Rookof JOB. Verf. Whether fled he? The Text faith he fled to Sea, but did not God find him there ? He fled from the commanding pretence ofGod, but he fell into the angry pretence of God. We have a large defcription in the 9h of Amos how carnali men hope to out of the handof God. 1 ( faith the Lord ) will flay the lift of themwith the fword, though they dig tohell, thence Aall myband take tbetn.We read what wife counfell the fervantsofthe King ofBenhadad gave him after he had been defeated by the King of /frge/ ( a King. ao. 23, 24, 25) Their Gods are C jocls of the kills, therefore they were 9ronger then we,but let tte fightagainft them in the plains, and furely we¡ball beftronger then they. Mag thee an Army like the Army that thouhaft loft, hortefor horfe, and Chariotfir Chariot, andwe willfight againft them in the plain and furely wefhall be/ranger then t bey, and be hearkened to their voice and didfo. Why did they delire to fight them upon the plaine they thought God was a Goct.ofthe hills, and not of the val- leys, but ( ver. 28.) Aman ofGod /aid to the Kingof Ilrael, thus faith the Lord, becaufe the erlfryrians have/aid, the Lord is God of the hills, andnot ofthe vagleys, therefore will Ideliver this great multitude into shy hand. A4tif he had laid, however you deferve not in the leaft, that I Ihoutd own you, or affift your caufe , yet that I may confute the blatphemoue and derogatory principles of theteSyrians, I will give you a fecond vidory againft them, even in the valleyes, where they fuppofe they have you at an advantage, and thall deal with you beyond the extent of my power and Territory. Though God had no caufe to refpeet the honour ofthe Ifraelites, yet he could not forget the ho- nour ofhis owne name, which was obteured by thofe fuper- ititious Syrians. The moll receivedDoctrine andDivinity ofthe Heathens confined their Gods to certaine places, fame to this City, and fame to that, fame to the hills, and tome to the plains, fome to the Sea, others to the Laid. 'Tis laid that the fame night inwhich Alexander the Great(ofwhole Conquelis Daniel Prophefied) was borne, that the Temple of 'Diana at .Ephefus was burnt to the ground. And the Heathens gave this as the reafonofit, betiatife Diana was abfent from her Temple, being gone to affift at the birthof e.41exagder ; implying that their Goddeffe was fo in one place, as the couldnot attend what was done elftwhere. Such were thegroffe conceits which they had of
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