` `` NM f, ON° w.Lt0 ,K.7HR;)GT+7,aG+7+^+ o+r!,7O:YrC./67fd4Y.CfgCJXdG7St;! tegft: iztR NMO T H E INTRODUCTION, Opening theNature, Parts,andScope of the whole Book of J 0 B. Twas the perfonal with and refoiution of the A- polle Paul, I had rather fpeak five words with i Cor.t4,zpd my underfianding , then ten thoufand words in an unknown tongue. And furely it is far better to fpeak or hear five words of Scripture with our underhandings, then ten thoufand words , yea then the wholeScriptures , while we underhand them not. Now, what an unknown tongue , about which the Apofle there difputeth, is, in reference unto all, the fame is the Scripture unto moll , even in their own tongue, that which they underhand not. For as an unknown tongue doth alwayes hide the meaning ofwords from us : fo do oft-times the fpiritu- alnefs, and myferioufüefs ofthe ¡natter. While a man fpeaks in a (range language we hear a found , but know not the words; and while a man fpeaks in our own language , though we know the words, yet, yet we may not underhand the meat ning; and then he that fpeaks is to us in that reference ( fo the Apdflc calls him) a Barbarian. While the leafes of the Book are opened and read to fuch or by fuch , the fenfe is Phut up and fealed. When the Apofile Philip heard the Ethiopian Eunuch read the . 3 A85 8iro Prophet Ifaiah as he travelled in his Chariot, he Paid tohim, VnderJtandeft thou what thou readeft ? The Eunuch anfwered, B How
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