264 Chap. z8. min Expofttion upon the Boot. of J o B. Verf. 13 cret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and be will Phew them his covenant; or (.as our Margin oath it) and his covenant to make them know it. Yet he doch not reveal all his fecret5 to thole that fear him. He will reveal to them all the necelfary fecrers of fpi- ritual wifdcme , but not all the fecrets of providential wif- dome. Therefore, I conceive, both thefe rendrings are as wide hem the (cope of this ter, as they are ( I am lure) from the let- ter of ir. And therefore I (hall carry it moregenerally.Conclud- ing that when fob faith, wildem is not to be found in the land of the living, his meaning is only this, that it is not to be found any where upon the earthy or among the living. In purfuance of which fence, he brings in the depth, and the fea difclaiming the poffeffi- on of it in the next verfe. Vert. 14. The depth faith, it is not in me: and the fea faith, it is not inmm. Here is a double Dilclaimer. The negation is repeated to (hew the certainty of ir. The 'depth faith. It is ufual in Scripture to atcribe fpeech to things tpeechlefs, or that cannot (peak ; The Vallycs and the Mountains, the fields and forrefisare brought in fpcaking there, yea paffions and affe- &ions are afcribed to them, and they are there reprefented fome -= times mourningand lamenting,forntimes laughing and rejoycing. This figure of Rhecorick is frequent alto in prophane Authors, bothPoets and Orators. The depth faith. What faith it ? We mayconceive it Paying thus ; l am deep, but wi(dome is too deep for me. No created depth can hold that. depth. There are two forts of deeps;firff,deeps at land; fecond= D1i 'voragr. lya deeps at lea, The word in the text may fignifie either, any great gulf of earth or water, whole bottome cannot at all or ve- ryhardly be found. Mofes iifeth this word in hisdefcription of that firi maffe of earth and water, before the creating power cf 'God had determined or drawn it out into any particular order, (Gen. I. a.) And the earthwas without form and voyd, anddark Holy was upon thefaceof the deep. It is applyed fpecially to fca- deeps
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