744 Chap. z6. An expofítion upon the BsokofJ O B. Y erf. 5. forme from hlm i Dead things are formedfrom under the waters, Hence note. That all things are produced in their beings by the power of 9,d. Dead things as well as living things, gold and ft!ver,minerals and gemms are formed by God as well as men or be;fts. And as they were ofGod in Creation at the btginning,ro there it a con. tintall putting forth of the power of God in the continuing or renewingof them,God is dayly forming rich and rare thirgs in the fecret Cabinets of the earth, and from under the waters, e/I..d the inhabitants thereof. That is, as dead things are formedunder the watero,foare the inhabitants thereofor thole living things that dwell in the water; we put in the Margin, with the inhabitants: who are they ? The inhabitants of the water are the fifhss,they are bred and abide in the water. As if he had laid, Thofe precious flowsand minerals, Idled dead things,are formedfrom under or in she waters as weá' at the fî¡bes, who are the proper inhabitants of the water.Mr. Brough- ton reades thus; Dead things are formed under the waters and places metre them, that is, in the mountainsand bills, in the chits and rocks are theee precious things formed.But I rather take our reading, and fo the Teat gives a further illuftration of the power of God ; who as he formeth dead things under the waters, fo li- ving things, or the inhabitants of the water. Hence note. The parer of God ie great ho forming the foes of the Sea. And the greatneffeof it will appear if weconfider three filings aboutthem. Fitt, Their number, as to us,the fib ofthe Sea areinfi,aite in number,there is no fort of creatures that multiply fo faft as fifties doe, therefore when God created the inhabitants of the water, we read (Gen.r.2i.) how emphatically their increate is eapreft; AndGod createdgreat whales, andevery living creature that rsa- veth, which the waters brought forth . bundanvly after th it kinde. The waters did not bring them forth by any power of their own, but they were brought forth in the waters by that power which God bad planted in the waters for that purpofe. Now it is not cnely
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