Chap, 25. Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf, 5. 709 ho.,v Car he was ftorn idolizingir, nocwichftandingall that beau- tywherein it appeared to him (Chap. 31. 26.) If 1 b held the Sunup when it (hired, or the Moon walking inbrrghtneffe, that is, ifIbeheld either Sunne or Moone to as to adore and worfhip them ; if I reckoned any thingofMoon and Sun, in comparifon ofGod,if I did not judge the light of both as darknefs and obfau- riey in reference to him,if I did not behold them fo as if I did not behold them, not being takenup or d:zz'id at all with their thin- ing brightnes,fcarfe at all feeir-g.not at al admiring any brighenes, but the brighcneffeofGood, if it were not thus with me,ifI ftood not at this dittance, and upon there termes with the bft ofthe creatures, then, &c. It argues that there is much natural beauty in the Maone,when as Tub to thew his Ipiritual charity faith that the beauty ofit, did not at all withdraw or ffeale away his heart fromGod. Indeed £itch is the beauty of the Moone that it is u`ed to fh<:dowout theChurch in her fpiritual beauty (Cant. 6. to.) Who ie the that la,kethforth as the morning, faire as the CMoone ; The Moon is fayre, yet fhe hath her (pots ; But God is fayre without a,-,y £pot, and therefore the faireneffe of the Moore is no fairy tuff at all to his There is another reading of the words ( Behold even to the 7 R to Moto, and it debnot extend its tents, or Both not extend its light 6r tamexpandir like a tent ; for when the light is fpread lrft our, it is like the pm°;".m"error_ fpteadingofa tent upon the snotantaines, To which the Prophet compint. 7tel feemeth to allude (Chap. 2. z.) to that phrafe; e4.s the mor- ning fpread upon the mountaines. Behold to the M one, and it doth not ['treadnut its light, nor extend its tents ; Our tranflatiot reacherh the -fence fully ; It /binerh not; Tea the Starres are net pure in his :fight. The Starres are fuppofed higher and greater then the Moone; TheStances are pure and fpiendid bodies, as bath been thawed from other places of this booke. So that, when Bifd.lei faich,The Starres are n. t pure, it is not an abfoture denyal oftheir purity, but as himfelf expounds it,they are not pure in the Iig,it ofGod. TheStarree have neither thole Ipots, nor chofe changes which the MDane hath, they are a morecleare and a morecertaine light,yec Even the Starres are not pare in his' fegbt,andwe may reckon the Shrineamongthe Starres too, though fometimes they are1pokera, of
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