Chitty. 26. An Expofttion Tryon the book of J OB. Vert. 5 743 loxrfi earth, whichfeeme to be as call ,f ,So'he mloffeth, and iodo other Interpreters, concluding that fob is here fettirg forth the [Oh dei pro, power of God in forming minerals and precious Ilon:s under the vidsauam waters or in the deepes, audio rifeth in his di1com fe by degrees 177""' af-r to I.igher things. As if he bad Paid, O Bildadwhat all thou 'hew jxb;crraneer rn.. ing me the power andprovidence ofgod in the high pieces, where he mo¡Arrpte. maketh peace ; I can tell thee that the fame power and providence of¿eto:: Ged are extended to :hop thing, which are wrought in the b, aelsof the earth, and at the bottcme ofthe Sea, andfo arsine-theft removed from our fight. And whereas we fay, Dead things are for*aed there : that word properly IïgniÊtes to bring forth children, or any living creature (70b. 39 a, 2.) Knotrofl that the time when the wild 9 Res f eke rockbreng forth, orcarfi then marke when the Hrnde,doe c..lve 1 Coll rhos number the msnetb, that they fulfil, r knobrfi thou the time when they bring tarth?yea The Ecerral Word and Wi dome of God fpeakes of himfelfe in the lat,guageofthis Word (Pre 8. 25.) B,fore the m,untains were fetled,bcfere the bits nRr 1 brought fort". It iign.fieth alto tobe in paine, and groan for pain,becaufe ch ld bearing eau'eth much paine and groaning. So the word is used in a metaphorical! fence Pout: 2. 25. )This day wi4' 1 begin (faith the Lord) to pat the dread of thee, and the feareof thee upon the Natiens, that are under the whole heaven, who /ball hear report oftbee,ard lli.all tremble andbe in angui'd,becaufeef thee, they Ihall be in angnifh as a woman travelling with child and pained to bring forth.Wherce that trarflation takes its ground.Ths Giant, groans under the waters. And as it fignifi.s to forme and fafhion the child or any livirg thing in the womb, and then to bring forth, fo it is applyed ro the forming ofthings that have no hfe (Pfal. 92. z.) B.fore the meuntsines were brcughe f rth, or ever thou bmditformed the earth and the world : evenfrom tverlafirg to everlafling thou art God. Dead things arefortped. But by whom ? here is no power espreft ; 78b faith only, :key are formed, he leaves that to he underficod. And what or whoa can we urderftandbut God, or the power. ofGod, by whom or whereby dead thingsare formed as well as íivirg things; for all tbins whether animate or inanimate, receive their being aed forme
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