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do inform us, For the Arrows of the Almighty are within me, the Poison whereof drinks up my Spirits; The Terrors of God do set themselves in Array against me. Let us go on duly to weigh and consider these Passages of his.

do enform us, For the Arrows of the Almighty are within me, the Poyson whereof drinks up my Spirits; The Terrors of God do set themselves in Array against me. Let us go on duly to weigh and consider these Passages of his.

Heman, he in his Horrors had complained, Psal. 88. 7. That God's Wrath lay hard or heavy on him, and says no more of it: But Job here, He in like manner feeling the like weight thereof, goes about to express how heavy, and how great the burden was of his Grief, that was caused thereby. And he calls for a mighty Scale to weigh it in: Such a Scale as might be large enough to contain all the Sands of the Sea. Oh that my Grief were throughly weighed, and my Calamities laid in the Balance together! for now it would be heavier than the Sand of the Sea. His meaning is, that to have his Grief and Calamity put in one of the Scales, and the Sand of the Sea in the other, his Calamity would be infinitely heavier. His invention was heightened by what he really felt: The greatness of it made him ⟨p. 181⟩Eloquent. (For as Love, so deep sense of Misery useth so to do.) And he pitcheth, as you see, upon the weightiness of Sand, to express it by, which is of all things the weightiest, as Solomon tells us, Prov. 27. 3. A Stone is heavy, and the Sand is weighty. Yea, and the Sand of the Sea: which, take both, those Sands within the Sea at the bottom of it, and those also scattered without on the Shore, they do make an immense bulk and body condensated, if they were gathered together into one heap: (as the Waters were into one place, when God made the Sea.) Job had a most sublime Fancy, as the high strains of that whole Book show: And this is in view a comparison vast and great enough, (one would think,) as could be used. But yet further observe, how he breaks off that attempt of his, to express it by this or by any such comparisons, though in appearance never so hyperbolical. Which breaking off, his next Speech utters: My Words (says he) are swallowed up! As a small thing is swallowed up of a greater, as a drop of the Ocean, as one small scattered Sand would be, in the bulk of all those Sands of the Sea, when cast in among them: So, were all these his vast expressions and comparisons he had