An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Why did the Lord speak out of a Whirlwind? Surely, that Job might see his distance, or that he was but as a feather, even like a rolling thing, or thistle-down, before the Whirl-wind, which the Lord could scatter and blow away with the least breath of his mouth, as that allusion in the Prophet intimates (Isa. 17.13.) And questionless all the wicked in the world, who contemn the Word of God preached by his Ministers,¹ will be blown away by it as thistle-down or a rolling thing before the Whirl-wind of the Lords fierce anger and displeasure; All such shall be carried away with a strong irresistible wind, and cast into the bottomless pit of perdition for ever. The Lord who sometimes speaks out of a Whirl-wind, hath a whirl-wind always at his command to scatter those like chaff, who obey not what is spoken, as he threatened the enemies of Jacob (Isa. 41.16.)

Why did the Lord speak out of a Whirlwind? Surely, that Job might see his distance, or that he was but as a feather, even like a rolling thing, or thistle-down, before the Whirl-wind, which the Lord could scatter and blow away with the least breath of his mouth, as that allusion in the Prophet intimates (Isa. 17.13.) And questionless all the wicked in the world, who contemn the Word of God preached by his Ministers,¹ will be blown away by it as thistle-down or a rolling thing before the Whirl-wind of the Lords fierce anger and displeasure; All such shall be carried away with a strong irresistable wind, and cast into the bottomless pit of perdition for ever. The Lord who sometimes speaks out of a Whirl-wind, hath a whirl-wind alwayes at his command to scatter those like chaffe, who obey not what is spoken, as he threatned the enemies of Jacob (Isa. 41.16.)

1. 1Locutione domini blanda dulcedo ejus ostenditur, per tempestatem vero potestas ejus metuenda monstratur. Greg. l. 28. c. 2.