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and then we clear ourselves of all mens blood, for when we see that we are called by God to preach we ought always to leave all the Devil's work behind, for God is in his holy temple, deep calleth unto deep, at the noise of thy water spout all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me, this is what gave great comfort to Job when finding that God was still with him, Job 1, 16, while he was yet speaking there came also another and said that fire of God was falling from heaven, but Job still had the fire in his heart, by this Job had pleasure that the world could not take away, Ps. 87 and 6, 8, 7 vs. thou hast laid me in the lowest pit of darkness, and thy deep wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves selah, thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me, Ps. 69, 1 v. again, save me oh God for the waters are come into my soul, I sink into the mire and I see none to save but God, Luk. 5 c. 4 v. now when he had left off speaking, he said unto Simon launch out into the deep and let down your net for a draught, and Simon answering said unto him master we have toiled all night and taken nothing, nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net, and when they had done this they enclosed a great multitude of fish, and their net broke and they beckoned unto their partners who were in the other ship, that they should come and help them, and they came and filled both ships. There is a temporal scheme whereby man's body may be filled with the productions of the earth, and in the deep sea through their skill the fish might be caught to nourish our bodies, thus we see the love of God unto man, and now these two ships may represent the two covenants, the first ship under the Mosaical dispensation in awaiting a long time for the promise to be fulfilled, and the people in that dispensation to begin to sink in their minds, to be weary, but in due time God's faithful elect called for the second ship, even the lion of the tribe of Judea, who peradventure even as the prophet Joel said, (3 c. 16 v.) the lord also shall raise out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the hope of his people thus we may see that the two ships are filled; when Christ was on the cross the heavens and the earth shook, the temple was rent from top to bottom, and the
