Chap, 28, eon Expofition upon the Book of J o a. Verf. 14. deeper (Pfal, i 07.24.26.) They that got down to the Sea in (hips, that doe butnets in great waters, they fee the worker of the Lord, andhis wonders in the deep.Tbey mount up to the Heaven ; They goe down again to the depths, &c.. A (hip in a form finites down fometimes (as it were) into a low valley, and then again is mounted as upon anbill. It is applyed fpecially to Earth-deeps in that bleflìngwhich Jacob pronounced as the portion of his Son jofeph(Gen, 49.25.) And by the Almighty,whofball blefs thee withblefngs of heaven above,keffings of the' deep that lyetb under. Which fame expound offprings of water, which stile out of the bowells of the earth. Others of precious mines which are found and digged there. And here,Iconceive,the-word is rather to bt ref'raïned to a depthof the earth, becaufc the lea is expreffed in thenext part of the verle. The Sea faith, it is not inme, The fea is that body of waters, diftin& from rivers, of which eikrofer fpeakes (Gen. a. ao.) Thegathering together of waters Called be leas. All there lower waters tie colle&ed into that huge veffel or receptacle calledSet. Some interpret the text of tea-men ;The feafaith ; that is,Sea- Per mare in; men whole bufinefs is upon the Sea, whole bufinefs and art it is telligit cosqui to pats and repais chore mighty waters ; each one ofthisSea- in mart Navi- tribe faith it is not in me. As if fob had laid, inquire of Sea-men gant rnerca- who encreafe their skill by much experience and arc daily turnsf6olo . Y Ltab. 5olom, acquainted with the water-works and wind -works of God, and they will anfwer, wifdom is not in us. Others expound it of thofe natural inhabitantsof theSea, the mute fifties ; chele can as much enform us in this poynt as men on earth : They Say no leis, and they can fay thus much, though they never yet Paid any thing,Rather thenwe will take it uponus, that wifdom is to be found in cur wateryelement,we will all fay withone vote, as if we were but one, Wifdom is not in me, Thus the creatures are brought in, as it were, anfwering the fearcbers or wifdom, you will loofe your labour, and fearch in vain, if you think ro find This wifdom in us, which God bath fecreted in his own breaf and bofome. There three verles being all of this one firain, or a continued proof, that wifdom is nowhere tobe had or found in the whole M m coma 265 f p,
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