816 Chap. 26. An Expoftion open the B00%of J O B. Verf. 14 1Yp finem extremttatem Moro. the fpeare,thedarr,nor the habergeon,yet God,who made him, -.can make his (word approach to himaor asfome render the words under hand, His hand bath and can wound.Lev.athan the crooked Serpent; He can :put a booke in hit note, and bore his taw tlorough with a tborne.And thus God can do allo with thofe,who are Le- -viathans, andcrooked Serpents in a figure, The Deviil, and all ,cruel-minded men whip doe his worke and carry on hisdtfigne againft the people ofGod, as is expreffed in that latelyalledged Scripture(Ifa:27, r .) 7n that day the L,rdnnitb hu f re and great andlrong fre.rd¡hall pueìfb Leviathan, the peircing Serpent,tt:at is, thole onerniesand perfectfters of his people, who feeme to be as ftrong and invincible as Leviathan and as 'ub- le an,i dangerous .as the molt peircing Ringing Serpent. Thus the L,rd aflured his faithful! ones (I; ee: 54 ; 6, ] v.) resat no weaprnformed again f .them flionidprofper. f.r (faith he) 1have .created the Smith that blowetb the coalesin thefire,and titerbrinrQesh forth an I.a ffrHment f :r bia worke, and Ib,eve treated sloe ry L er to d:ffruy. Therefore 1 can.hinder the wafter from deftroying 9z make all his weapons ,edgleffe, pointleffe, nomore able to wound, then a ftraw or a gull. How Toone can God blunt and abate the keenest spirits of men, and weaken their ftrongeft armes, when he feet they will but do mifchíefe with them: He that caufeth motion can flop it; and be that giveth power can call it in, or b cake it where it is. While God is on our fide whomade all, we need not feare who are made againft us ; Though they have teeth like Lyons, and flings likeSerpents we are fíafe ; The hand of God can kill and r wound, for, Hie bandbath formed thespoked Serpent. Vert 14. Lo, thefe are parts ofhis wayes,but hot', little a parti on is beard ofhim? hue the thunder ofhis power who an underRand ? Thus lab concludes; after be hadgiven an enumeration or In- du&ion of many particulars, he loth as it were hold them forth in his hand to the viewof all men ; Behold,or;lo t.efe areparts of his wares. The word which we render parts, fignifieth the endor extre- mity ofa thing.There isa twofold extremity;fir ft, that which is utmoft or furtheft from us, fecondly, that which is hithermoft or neereft
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