402 Chap.3. An Ex,pofition' upon the Bookqf j OB. Vérf.F2, Such reft and fweet repofc had I. found (faith Job) from all my toyl in the houfe ofdeath and bedof thegrave. Having thus four words concurring in the fame.fcnce , we may here not unprofitably take notice of that elegant multiplication of words in the holyScriptures. There, (lore is no fore, and variety is no Cuperfluity, yea there Tautology is no faperfluity ; it is the ufüal Rhetorick ofthe Holy Ghoft., to (peak the fame thing in di- verswords , yea Cometime in the fame words;. We finde fuch a congeries or heaping up of words ufed for-themoli part in forge heat of Patriot], or,vehernency:offpiri t As fiat' when God would ex)refs a great deal ofaiiger and wrath againfi a people, he fpcaks thus, (Ifar. 14,22,23.) I will rife upagate them, /with the Lord ofRoa)is, and cut offfrom Babylon the name and remnant, and frin, and nephew; I roil allomake it a pojfeffionfor the 13ittern, andpoolsof water, andImill (weep itwith 'the b f once of fleftrucîion.. Here are a multitude of words, and all tending to the ¡fame purpol, fet- ting fourth the fiercenefs of Gods anger , and the refolvednefs ©f his Judgeïnent for the ruining of Babylon. The towering confufed pride of the King of Babylon is prefented to us in firth a, heap of words , (Ifa. 14. x3; 14. ) hear the pure language of pride horn that Kings 'heart ; 2hou h, aft fBid in thine heart, I will afeend into Heaven ; . 1 will exalt my throne above the Stars of God, I will fit alfo upon the mount of the Congregation , I will afcend above theheights of the.Clouds, I will be like the moft High. The manifold Apofiacies and Backilidings of Jrtdah arc dcfcri- bed in mány yvord's by the Prophet .ephany, Chap. r. 6.- A ad them that are turned back,f'rom the Lord , and thofe that have not fought: the Lord , nor enquiredfor hin:. (Chap.3.2.) She obeyed not the voyce', Elie received not carrecfion , Jhe trulted net in the L&rd, Jhe drew not neer to her God. when our' Lord Chriíl would Phew the extream ignorance' and dárknefs of his Difci. pies, in thole great Articles ofhis Sufferings , Death and Refar- rei ion , having taken the twelve unto him, and difcourfed of thole points, he concludes,Lu1Z 18.31,34. And-they underftood none ofthefe things , and this laying was hidfrom them , neither knew they the things that' were fpoken. As if Chia had laid,' their ignorance in theft myfleríes was fo great, that they had not the leali glimpfeor glimmerings of-light about them. So here, I ,Jhculd have lien ffill , and . been quiet, I fhould have flept, and bOsz at reft atad all to note the interrupted-quiet and tranquillity of
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