e Forwhoſe Inftruttion haſt thou utrered theſe things ? For mine? Poft thou think me to be ſo ignorant that I do not know,that which the imeaneſt perſonsare not unacquainted with ; ro.wit, that God 1s incomparably greater aad better rhan hisCreatures? f So the ſenſe 3s, whom haſt thou revived or comforted by this Diſcourſe? Not me ſurely- Thefpirit or breath of a Min is in a manner ſuppretled and
intercepted in deep ſorrows and conſternarions, ſuch as Job's were, and when he is cheared or refreſhed,ir finds vert and breaths our free- ly as it did befere- Bur I do not remember that ever this phraſe is uſed in this ſen'e ; but.oa the contrary, the giving or reſtoring of life zre expreſſed by the coming in, and not by the going out of the ſpirit er breath, as appears from Gen- 2, 7; Ezek- 37. 5, 6, 10+ The words therefore are and may be otherwiſe underitood ; Either thus, Whoſe ſpirit or inſpiration, (as this word lignifies, Fob 32. 8-) came fromthee ? Who inſpired thee with this profou::d Diſcourſe of thine ? Was it by Divine Inſpiration, as thou would have us to believe? Or wa: it nota rath ſuggeſtion of thy own vain and fooliſh mind ? Or thus [ſe ſpirit went ot (to wit, ofhis Body by an extaſie of admiration) for zhee, by reafon of thy Difcoucrie ? I may be thought partial in my Cenſure of it, but thou mayeſt perceive none of our Friends here preſent admire ir, except thy ſc! Or to, or for whom (the Parricle etþ being here underitood out of the former Branch, as 1s uſual among the Hevrew:} d:dbreafh go ou: from thee ; 1 &- Did(t thou
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& Job having cenſured B/ld2s diſcourſe concerning God's Domi-« mon and Power, as inſignificant and impertinent torheir queſtion he here proceedeth ro ſhew how little he needed his Information in that point, and that he was able to inftru& him in that. Dotirine. of w hich accordingly he gives divers Proofs or Inſtances: Here he ſhew- <th thatthe powerand providence of God reacheth not ory to the things which we ſce,but allo to the inviſible parts of the World,not only to the Heavens above and their Inhabiran+s, and ro Mn upon Earth, of which Biland diſcourſed Chap: 25 2,3: bur alio to ſuch per= ſons orthings as are under the Earrh, or u..wver the Waters: which arc under the Earth ;3 which are our of our ſight and reach, and might bethoughr ro be our of tie ken vr care of Divine Providence. This Horew word ſometimes ſignifies Giants, as Deut. 2 18, 20 & J 13: and i Chron 20. 8 Whence it may be tranſlated to ether great, and as it were, gigantick Creatures, and more cominonly dead men, 4s P/1/m 88. 11+ Prove 2- 18+ & G» 18. & 20 16. T/a 14+ g- & 26- 4 9. Whence it is ſuppoſed meraphorica!ly ro ſignifie aiſo dead or lifeleſs things; though there be no cxample of that uſe of the word <iſe- where ; and it may ſeem improper to call thoſe things dead, which never had nor were capable of life. The next Helrew word, or the Verb is primarily uſed of Women with Child, and {iignifies their bringing forth their young Ones with travel! or gricuous pains, as Job 39:3* Pſalm 29: 9+ I/a- 23. 4+ & 45-19. and thence it ſignifies either ro form or bring forth, as below, verſe 13- Prov- 26. 10. Or to grieve or mourn, or te be in pain» Accordingly theie words are diverily under= ſtood; either 1- Of dead, or lifeleys things, ſuch as Amber, Vearl, Co- , ral, Mctals, or other Minerals, which are fermed or brought forth - | to wit, by the Almighty Power of God, from »nder the waters; i e. ; either in the botcom of the Sea, or within the Earth, which is the ; loweſt El-ment, andin the Scripture and other Aurhors ſpoken of