An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Those creatures which live only a life of sense, yet partake somewhat of reason, at least, they act according to reason; they are sensible of what God doth, though they know not that he doth ⟨p. 483⟩it. And is not this a great reproof to those, who are not only not sensible of, but slight those severer dispensations of God? how beast-like are those men, who have not so much sense of the dealings of •od as the beasts have! who though they have a knowledge beyond brutes, yet they use their knowledge no better, no nor so well as brutes; and so they are either (as the Prophet saith) brutish in their knowledge, or as the Apostle Peter (2 Pet. 2.12.) They are as brute beasts (in humane shape) made to be taken and destroyed. How can they avoid being taken and destroyed by the judgments of God, or as Elihu expresseth it, by the great rain of his strength, who take not so much notice of them, as to see their danger and get into a hiding place? For,

Those creatures which live only a life of sense, yet partake somewhat of reason, at least, they act according to reason; they are sensible of what God doth, though they know not that he doth ⟨p. 483⟩it. And is not this a great reproof to those, who are not only not sensible of, but slight those •everer dispensations of God? how beast-like are those men, who have not so much sence of the dealings of •od as the beasts have! who though they have a knowledge beyond bruits, yet they use their knowledge no better, no nor so well as bruits; and so they are either (as the Prophet saith) bruitish in their knowledge, or as the Apostle Peter (2 Pet. 2.12.) They are as bruit beasts (in humane shape) made to be taken and destroyed. How can they avoid being taken and destroyed by the judgments of God, or as Elihu expresseth it, by the great rain of his strength, who take not so much notice of them, as to see their danger and get into a hiding place? For,