Chap. 23. an E'xpo/ition upon the Book o f . Verf.2;. 3 t 1 3 ®$ 28. Verf. 25, 26, 7. To make the weightfor the windy, andheweighetb the water, by meafure. When he made a decreefor the rain; anda wayfor the lightning of the thunder. Then did he fee it, and declare it, hepreparedand fearched it tut. ÓB havingpurfued his tetra for wifdom, and propofed the yueftion, (where pallwifdoess befound?)Throughout the whole Creation found noanfwer, but a difclaimer frommen and Angels,- from the depth and from the fea, from the living and from the dead, till histhoughts,arrived- at and fate down in God himfelf; as was (hewed from the former verte ; God underflandetb the way thereof, and be k sowetb theplace thereof ; For be looketh to the ends of theearth, &c. In this context lobproceeds togive proof, that,wiom is with God ; and he gives a great and noble one ofir,from that compc fure andwonderful order in which God fet the world atfirft by his creating poWer,.and bath ever frnce difpofedof andprefer- ved it inby his providential or governing power. In confirmati- on whereof, he gives an Indu&ion of Tome fpecial eminent in- fiances of the works and workings of God in nature, (which are to be underflopd,by a Spnechdocbe,as inctuding the reif )all joynt- ly and lowdly founding out the praises of his.unfearchable nil áotacrcatiira dom. perpartemfig. . And 706 makes inflance in thofe works of nature which feem u rater to liemoll out of the difpofure of G"d, and about which his wir g dom (in vulgar opinion) is little engaged, or do-h leafl,The mo- tion of the winds, and waters,ltho fall ofrain, and thefurious going forth of lightningand thunder. tie begins with the winds. Verf. 25. To make the weightfor the winds, &co There is a twofold raking of the things of this world; ñrl,ori- ginall,bycreation ; feccndly, occofional,., by providence vfe may underftand both here, . though .. the :current of the text [evils zacher tocarry,it tothe latter.. The.:j i
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