776 Chap. 26. An expofitian upon the ToakofJ O B. Verf. i o. will, fo hefayeth both wherefover he will. Mofi men at tome times, force (wicked) men at all times are like the raging Sea toben it cannot ref,whs/e waters caft tip noire anddirt(Ifa. 5 7,20,) who could live by there raging Seas, there raging waves of the Sea at once foaming out their owne fhame, and threatning to fwallowup others in deftruetion,did rot God compaffe them a-. bout with bounds? did not he fay, here (hall your proudwwes be flayed, IfGod did not bound the Sea of forre mens :Spiri -s; thevould not know much leffe keepe any bounds ; they wou'd neither know nor keep, not onely the bounds of religion and piety, but not the bounds of reafon and civility. Secondly, God is able to rule and put a bound to the rage of the multitude,who in Scripture are compared to warer.(Revi 17. 15.) The waters which thou faweft, n h.;re the PTA re Jitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, andNations, and tongues, And there are as apt co fwel and be enraged withvain pAlions and discontents, as the Sea is by winds and ftormes (Pfal2. 1.) why do the hea- then rage ? rageas the lea ; and thus they will rage fornetivaes though they know neither why nor wherefore. (So again 1)(al. 93. 3, 4.) The floods have lifted up O Lsrd, the floods have lifted up their voice: the foods loft up their zvaves;which as it is true E. terally and properly, fo it is as true (and fo I conceive there in- tended)figuratively and improperlyor myflically and fpiritually that is, peoples and Nations like floods lift up their voice, they lift up their waves as ifthey would overwhelm all; But what fol- loweth (v.4.)TheLerd on high rd mightier then the mile' ofmany waters,yea then the mighty waves of the Sea;that is,the Lord can quickly check and flop the rage ofa people,when,or though they iwel like a furious boyfterous Sea. And we finde Davidputting both there together by way of Expofition(731.65.)whereexal- ting the power of God as he is theconfidence of all the ends of the earth, andofthem that are afarrejff upon the fea (v. 5.) He ad- deth(v.6,7. )wieich by kieftrengthf'ettetbfait the mountaines : beinggirdedwithpower. whichh f i/leth the noire of the leas ; the noife of their waves, and the tumult of the people. David joynes the noyfe and waves ofthe Seas, and the tumult of the people together ; either implying,that he meant the tumult of the peon ple, by the noyfe of the Sea ; or that it is an a& of the fame power, to ftilithe tumult ofthe people, and the noife of the Sea; Thirdly,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=