742 Chap. 26. An expopUut upon the lleokof) O B. Vert 5 theirefïeets, not b caute they a.te weak,but becaule they at taken others, Giants are fo fog that the very fight of theme macs others weakeand faint,or pulls down menof ftrergth and might. It is laid that Saul and the whole Army of I; rael were difmaxed when they taw Goliab, and greatly afraid;they were weak before the Giant. There is much labouring tomake out this fence of the Evord here ; fe ne underhand it of the Giants before the flood ; B h, ldt the Giants groanfr, no under the ji.atd. Thofe Giants were indeed overthrown by the waters and to they conceive that 74 ahu :cd unto them, but I (hall not flay upon that interpretation. Others expound the text of thofe Giants whole proper ele- mert is water, the mighty fifties of the Sea, the Whale,theL vim athan (woken of in this book of 74 Leviathan is a Seamonfler, a Sea Gant ofhuge dimenfmns. Natural Hi@orians and travel- lers deieribe thev;,ttneffeofthe Whale or Leviathan, towonder and am z-ment. And 'cis gtantcd, that in thereGods po.ver is much Serve; But I (hill lay by this txpofirion alfo,becaute(1 con= ceive) fifties are fpoken of in the next words,where they are cal- 1t'd rhF inhabitants thereof, that is, of theSea or waters.. Againe, this Word Repbaim i- often put for the dead, or thofe that are departed this life. (Pi. S8.. t o.) wilt them flew ta'onders to the dead F (ball tut dead drift and prasfe thee r There are two words tiled for the dead in that verte, one is the ordinary word, the-other is that of the Text S-lomon (Pro z. IS ) (hewing ho-v dangerous it is to have to do with the adultref e, faith, Her b ufe inclinethHato death, andher poke unto tae (R P.haim er the) dead,, The houfe ofAdultry and uncleanenes is theGatehoule todeath; it isnot a hou'e raised up, but bowed down, her bout scliretb. Nntn death, and (he who is the governeffe, or rather the mils- governenefs of the houle, will by her ill life b ing thee among the dead, even among tholewho are twice dead, corporally &a& at prefent, and fpirirually dead for ever. But that which 1(hall rather pitch upon according toour tra a flation,is that by aide dead thing., are mean-- filch things as never trt-t `i had any Iife.MrBroergbton expoundshis trat flìtion,T i :,.gs with- 0 %4x4 slit life,of thole precious things that are formed under the x aters. Amber and pearls andgoodly flonei ; There dead things are foci d under the waters, and there they are formed Çodr prvidenee reacheth to thefrertheff placer, eves to the hotteme of the Sea and
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