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Family and Name extin& with him. - ber
20 © Terrours take hold on him x as watters y : a*ct..q.:
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tempeſt ftealeth him away in the night z. ” 7 —o—_—
z From the ſenſe of his approaching Death or Judgment. y Ei- ther 1.in abundance, one terror after another. 2. Violently and rrefiſtably, as aRiver breaking its Banks, or a Deluge of Waters bears down & overwhelms all that is before it. z God's wrath and Judgment cometh upon him forcibly like a Tempeſt, and withal ſecretly and unexpetted'y like a Thief in the Night.
21 The Eatt-wind « carriecth him away b, and he departeth : and as a ſtorm hurlech him our of his place.
2 1. e Some violent and terrible Judgment, fitly compared to the Eaſt-wind, which in thoſe parts was moſt vehement and furious, and withal peſtilent and pernicious ; of which ſee Exod. 10.13: & 14-21. Pſal. 48- 7- and 78- 26. Hoſ. 13. 15- Jonah 48+ b Out of his place, as it tollows, our of his ſtately Palace wherein he expetted to dwell for ever; whence he ſhall be carried either by an enemy thar ſhall rake him and carry him into Captivity, or by Death»
22 For God ſhall cait upon him c, and not ſpare 4: _ . .
T he would fain flee our 6f his hand e. 7 a 1
© His Darts or Plagues, one after another @d i.e. Shall ſhew no fee | _ _ pans, " wm when he crieth to God for ir. e He ear-" * neitly delires and endeavours by all ways poflible to eſc Judgments of God, bur all in ex. whe ph
| 23 Men f hall clap their hands g at him, and ſhall hiſs him 4.out of his place 5.
f Who ſhall ſee and obſerve theſe things. g Partly in token of their joy at the removal of ſuch a publick Peſt and Tyrant: And partly by way of altonrſhmenr: And partly in contempr, and ſcorn, or derifion ; -All which this geſture tignifies in Scripture uſe : OF which ſee Lam. 2. 5+ Ezek, 25. 6. Nah. 3.19. b Intoken of their a- mazement, deteſtation and derifion. See 1 Kings 9. 8- 2 Chron. 29.
8. fer. 25-9. Mich. 6. 16. # Now that he is out of his place and power, which they durſt not do whilſt he was in his place. Or, the Men of his place thar lived with,him or near him, and daily telc theeffe&s of his Tyranny.
CH AP. XXVIII. The power and wiſdom of God in his works of nature, 1-=--11. 4 knowledge
and wiſaom anſwering this u not found in man, nor to be bought or ac
quired, | 2 w—u_—_, Death and deftrufion make their report of it, 22.
I: 4; only in God, 23 -27. M's wiſdom us to fear God, 28. | Go there 1s || a vein for the ſilver , anda place I1Or,oMine
for Gold, || where they fine it b. || Or, which
a Where it is hid by God, and found,and fetched out by the art they fine. and induſtry of Man. The connexioa of this Chapter with the for-
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be the faireſt account of it, Job having in the laſt Chapter diſcourſ- ed of God's various Providences and Carriages towards wicked men, . and ſhewed that God doth ſometimes, for a ſeaſon, give them Wealth and Proſperity, but afterwards calls them to a fad account, and puniſheth them ſeverely for their abuſe of his Mercies; And having formerly ſhewed that God doth ſometimes proſper the wick- ed all their days, fo as they Jive and die withour any viſible tok-n of God's diſpleaſure againit them, when on the contrary, good Men are exerciſed with many and grievous Calamiries, and perceiv- ing that his Friends were, as Men in all Ages have been, ſcan- dalized - at theſe methods of Divine Providence, and denied the thing, becauſe they could not underſtand the reaſon of ſuch une- qual Diſpenſations : In this Chapier he declares that this is onz of the depths and fecrers of Divine Wiſdom, not diſcoverable by zny mortal Man in th:s World, and that alchough Men had ſome degree of Wiſdom whereby they could dig deep, and ſearch out many hidden things, as the Veins of Silver, Gold, &c. yer this wasa Wit- dom of an higher Nature, and out of Man's reach. And hereby he ſecretly checks the arrogance and confidence of his Friends, who, becaule they had ſome parts of Wiſdom, the knowledge of natural things, ſuch as are here contained, and of Human Afffairs, and of ſome Divine Matters, therefore preſumed to fathom the depths of God's Wiſdom and Providence, and to judge of all God's ways and works by the ſcantling of their own narrow underſtandings. Poſſb-
wonderful waysof God; both in the Works of Nature, Ch. 26« from v. 5. to theend, and in his Providential Diſpenſations towards wick- ed men,Ch 27. from v. 13, to the end, he here returns .to the firſc Branch of his Diſcourſe, arid diſcovers more of God's Wiſdom and Power in natural things. And this he doth partly, that by his ma- nifeſtation of bis ſingular skill in the ways and ations of God, he might vindicate himſelf from that contempt which they ſeemed to have of him, and oblige them to hear what he had further to ſay with more attention and conſideration, and partly that by this re- preſentation of the manifold Wiſdom and Power of God, they might be wrought to a greater Reverence for God and for his Works, and not preſume to judge ſo raſhly and boldly of them, and ro condemn what they did not underſtand in them. 6 Or rather, as it is in the margent of our Bibles, which they, ro wit, the Refin- ers, do fine. For he ſpeaks nor here of the Works of Men and of
and following words. | 2 Iron 1s taken out of the |] earth c, and braſs 4s
molten out of the ſtone e. NS BE
c Being mae of Earth, concofted by the heat of the Sun, into that hardneſs, and by Miners diged our of the.Earth. d Or, Copper. eA\V herewith it is mixed and incorpcrated in the Earth, and by fre and the art of the Meraliſt, it is ſeparated from it, and taken out of » ity as Pliny obſerves 34. 1, Io. and 36. 279. ;
2 Hef ſetreth anend g * to darkneſs, and ſearch- eth outall perfe&ion þ: rhe ſtones 3 of darkneſs, and
che ſhadow of death kB f Fither 1. Man the Miner, Or 2. God, of whoſe works of Na- ture he h-re ſpeaks, Or 3. God as the chief Author and DireQor, and Man asGods Inſtrument in the Work. g Or, 4 bound, how far the darkne!s ſhall reach, and how far the dark and. hidden parts and Treaſures of the Earth ſhall be fearched, and diſcovered, an-l 4 I brought
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