no Chap. 26. Anexpofation upon the Baokof J O B. Vert. , r , faid,.though there be much confufiun in theearth, yet the Lord enables me to keep things together, fo that they fall not to the ground, and are not utterly ruined. It ie a Great honour to be a pil- lar bearing tsp the building, but it is a greaser honotár to be a ?War bearing up the pillars ; All good Magiiirates have the former honour,and all fupreame Magilürates if good,have the latter;yet both thefe honours do origiraly & primarily belo- g unto God; who as he maketh the pillars of heaven tremble,fo he can firmly fettle(and will while they willingly ferve his ends and interefts) the pillars ofthe Earth, though but earthly pillars. Secondly, Take this alto by way ofCorolary from the text; If thepillars ofheaven tremble, andare afonifbed at the reproofe of god; what íhai! we fay of thofe men,or ofthe hardnsffe of their hearts ? Firft, Who, heare the reproofes ofÇod dayly, yet tremble not; What? do the pillars of heaven tremble at the reproofe of God, and (hall not men ! yet, thus more then bruitifh are, many men; They hear reproofes,fevere reproofes againfi fist, yet they trem- ble no more then the (tones they Rand upon, nor are moved any more then the feats they fit upon; let God chunder,ard lighten; and chide, and threaten, they are not furred with it The pillars of heaven fhall rife up in judgement againfi this dedolent and ob- durate generation. The Prophet (7er. 36,24.) reports a fad Ro- ry of this ; a threatning rolle was tent to 7,h.,iakim king of ?u- dah,written from the mouthof3eremiah by Taruck; the King caufed it tobe read as he fate at the fire, and then (whereas it might have beenexpected that he fhc'uid be cut at the heart with Godly farrowand contrition for his fi')be cut it with the `Pen- knife andcalf it into the fare that was on the hearth untill all the rol tsar confu:ned in the fire that was on thehearth ; yet they were not afraidnor rent theirgarments, neither the kint, or any ofbrs fer- vanes that beard all thole words;as if it had been faid,what a won- derful ha,dneffe was there upon the he: its of thefemen,that they could hear futh words read,words fo full ofrerrour,words cloa- thed with flub reproofs, words which fpake nothing but death, wrath, deftru&ion, rtaine,and defolarion,yet notwithftanding all this they were not afraid,neither the King nor any ofhis fervants regarded it. The heart of man is more hard then hardneffe it felfe, till God'often it, er breaker$ it ; man moves sot, he relents nor, let
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