, 6o Chap.3. An Expofition upon the Bookof J OB., Veri9> Geminata po- and fwarthy; from the faine word thofe 'Idolatrous Priefts, fpoken firma calores of2 .King 23.5.:were called Chentarims, or the blackPri is;. and rnterftores 6' they were called fo, eitherfrom the blackyetis or garments which nvlaementiones quotes élfefo, t;heY commonly wore , or from the heat and fire of their furious lentrtrdiebns zeal,cither in the_defenceorexercife of theirfuperttitious worfhip; cameulartbus, or from the finoaky incenfe which they offered,fit enough toblack fir, r jì`'at - themfelvcs,butno way pleating unto God. Drue. Let the blacknefs of the day terrifieit.) Terrifie what? Terrifié the day.Theday is notcapable offears,or ofaffrightments; but thé meaning is this,let the blacknefsof thedaymake it a terrible day, or let it be a terrible day by reafon of the blacknefs of it; aswe.ufe to fay,fuch a day was a terrible day, it was a black day. Changes in the-cpArfeofnature arefull ofterrour. That which is proper and natural to theday is light, therefore to fee theday co- rom compofita vered with blacknefs,muft needs affright, us: whenwe lookfor light, es,7 111 as they in the Prophct,andbehold darknefs,tbat troubles;but when flmántudines ' we lookfor light, and behold black,iefs, that terrifies. The vulgar p partteuía fr, /7stit, Latin Tranflation reads it thus;Let(as itwere)thebitterneffesofthe 1 day terrifie it ; The bitterneffes of the day, are thole fad acci- dents and troubles which fall out upon that day. 'Towhich fence theCaletee Paraphrafe thusexpoùnds it; let fuch bitterncffes of the . dayaf$ia it, as theProphet Jeremy was afflited with, for the de fruCrion of the Temple,or as Jonas whenhe was call into theSea. Ilard bondage made the lives of the. Ifraeliter,.bitter , Exod. i, zq... And when theLord threatens to turn their feafís into mourning, . and their fing: into lamentation, he concludes thus, and [will make it as the mourning an onlyfon, and the end thereofas a bitter day, Amos S.1o Hence afeiáions are called gall andwormwood, bitter things. And theChaldeans whom God made fo great a fcourge to his own people,are.called. a bitter Nation,,Hab.i .6. We have opened thefe words which concern the cafe upon. Jobs day, , Now followes his curfe upon thenight. VerC6. Asfor the night;, let darknefs feize, upon it, let it not bejoy- ned te the_dayes of theyear , let it not come into the num-. ber ofthe moneths. VerC 7. Lo, let,`that night befolitary , let no. joyful voyc.e come. therein. He goeth on in lais former particulate Rhetorick, to load the, .,
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