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

Note; God can as easily rule and bind the sea (a vast bulky body) as a mother or a nurse can bind a little infant in swaddling bands.

Note; God can as easily rule and bind the sea (a vast bulky body) as a mother or a nurse can bind a little infant in swadlingbands.

And surely the Spirit of God would have us to take notice, that though the sea, be indeed such a giant, such a monster, as will make a heart of oak shake, or a heart of brass melt, yet what is it to God, but an infant? he can bind it and lay it to sleep, even as a little child. And if the great sea be in the hand of God as a little child, what is great to God! and how great is God! What is strong to God! and how strong is God! What or who is too great, or too strong for God to deal with? Cannot God, who hath swaddled the turbulent sea, provide swaddling-bands to wrap up the stoutest and most turbulent spirits of this world? Job •p•aking of himself, wondered that God should deal so with him (chap. 7.12.) Am I a Sea or a Whale, that thou settest a watch over me? The sea is a boisterous creature, and had need be watched; Am I a Sea or a Whale, said Job? Though a man be as a sea or a whale, God can watch him, and bind him from doing mischief. Therefore fear not any power of the creature, though a great sea, while your behaviour is good; but fear the Lord, who binds the sea to its good behaviour. Nations are before him but as the drop of a bucket (Isa. 40.15.) A Nation considered in it self, is a mighty sea, much more The Nations, which indefinite is universal, taking in all Nations; yet they are all but as the drop of a bucket: and how easily can we dispose of the drop of a bucket? Even so easily can God dispose of those who are as the sea in opinion and appearance.

And surely the Spirit of God would have us to take notice, that though the sea, be indeed such a giant, such a monster, as will make a heart of oak shake, or a heart of brass melt, yet what is it to God, but an infant? he can bind it and lay it to sleep, even as a little child. And if the great sea be in the hand of God as a little child, what is great to God! and how great is God! What is strong to God! and how strong is God! What or who is too great, or too strong for God to deal with? Cannot God, who hath swadled the turbulent sea, provide swadling-bands to wrap up the stoutest and most turbulent spirits of this world? Job paking of himself, wondered that God should deal so with him (chap. 7.12.) Am I a Sea or a Whale, that thou settest a watch over me? The sea is a boisterous creature, and had need be watched; Am I a Sea or a Whale, said Job? Though a man be as a sea or a whale, God can watch him, and bind him from doing mischief. Therefore fear not any power of the creature, though a great sea, while your behaviour is good; but fear the Lord, who binds the sea to its good behaviour. Nations are before him but as the drop of a bucket (