háp.3: An Expofitionupon the Bookof J VerCi 2. 3g7 foon as I was born , yet why was I not left to perifh ? I Ihould have dyed quickly if they had-let me alone , though I were born alive into the world; that is themeaningofthole words, Why did the Mees prevent me ? why was there any care taken of me ? why did the Midwife and the Aflîftant women take me upon their knees ? why did they wafh me, fwathe me,and binde nie up ? If they hadnot been fo kind, it had been akindnefs unto me ; if they had (pared their labour,they haddone me a favour ; Íf they had omitted their care, how:many cares had I efcaped 1 Why did the knees prevent me ? or (which is a further Rep and the fifth Rep by ,which this fpeechafcends) why the breaffs; that I fhouldfuck.,? As ifhe had faid,ifthey would needs be fo favour- able as to takefile upon the knee, to wafh me, to binde me up and clothe me, yet why was the brean prefented to the ? why was I- layd tothe breaft? If they had kept me from fucking the breafl,I Ihould have fuck'd but little breath,I had dyed quickly. Só that in thefe words there, are five gradations by which fob aggravateth the carafe óf this curfe againft his day. lint, becaufe: he_was,conceived. Secondly, becaufe the door was opened for hire tobe born. Thirdly, becaufe being born, he did not prefentlygive- up, the ghoft, or dye as loon as he came into the world. Fourthly, becaufe therewas fo much care taken for him, as to take him upon the knee,and bind him up. Fifthly,.becaufe there wasa breaft pro- vided, and paps for him to fuck.: if any of thole latter-ads had been neglected, fob had dyed, and fo efcaped all there enfuing troubles ofhis life, furrow had been hiddenfrom his eyes. , And it is obferved Cefpecially in thefe latter as of this gra' dation). the t fob alludes to the cuflome of thole Times wherein unnatural women left their children uponthe cold Earth , naked and helplefs, as loon as theywere born : or calling them out, ex-, pofe them to mifery, or the cafual Nurfery ofNature;lentthem by. beafts,,more merciful,then thofe beaftly;Mothers , who would not afford them knees to prevent,norbreads togive themfuck. As in that>place,Ezefk ; r6..4,5. the woful condition of -filch an Infant is expect, to fhadow out the finfully polluted and wofully helplefs,- eftate ofthat people,and ofall people by-nature, till the Lord pre - vents them by theknees offree -grace , and Pickles, themwith the . breads ofhis con ./olation. Thyfather wit an 4morite , -and thy mo thee. anHittite , (ofa barbarous people, and what then?) In tie. day thou waft horn , thy navel was not cut ; neith, :° fvafl tboes. warned
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