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

Having opened this whole context concerning the horse, and given several observations from the parts of it; I shall for the close of all show how aptly this description of the horse represents, or is applicable unto two very different sorts of men.

Having opened this whole context concerning the horse, and given several observations from the parts of it; I shall for the close of all shew how aptly this description of the horse represents, or is applicable unto two very different sorts of men.

First, The Horse, as here described, is the emblem of a bold and hardened sinner. The Spirit of God speaks this expressly (Jer. 8.6.) I harkened, and heard (saith the Lord) but they spake not aright, no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, what have I done; every one turned to his course (what course? his sinful course, how?) as the horse rusheth into the battle; as the horse mocks at fear, and will not turn back from the sword; As the horse will not be affrighted at the rattling of the quiver, nor at the shaking of the spear; so hardened sinners rush on, though you tell them there's deadly danger in it, and that the Sword of the Word points directly at them, and will cut them off: Yea, they will not turn back, though the Lord should brandish a flaming sword, as he did against Adam, to keep him from the tree of life, so to keep them from the tree of death; they, will for all this, rush on as the horse to the battle. The wicked man is thus described, in one place of this book of Job (Chap. 15.25, 26.) where Eliphaz saith of him, He stretcheth out his hand against God (here's war with God) and strengthens himself against the Almighty (that is, draws all his forces together; and what then? just as the horse in the Text) He runs upon the thick bosses of his buckler, even upon his neck. A wicked man, like the horse, runs upon God, even upon the thick bosses of his buckler. The Lord is there represented, by Eliphaz, as holding out a buckler against the sinner; what's that? the Law, his Word of command, that's Gods buckler; and this buckler hath thick bosses and sharp points, especially, in the middle, a great boss with a pike, such are all divine threatenings, yet the sinner runs, as a horse, upon these thick bosses of Gods buckler, his severest threatenings. Thus the horse, and a bold sinner are alike.