is 4. -VerC a 5'. An'Expofition upon the Boot{ of J OB, Chap. 3, defolate places, being aifo in other places tiled for thé grave or a place of burial, we may verywell expound it lb here, that defo- lateplaces are the gravesor fepulchers of Kings, and Princes, and Counfellors of the Earth ; which we may do efpecially, be- caufe job treats in this place about death, and the Rate of the dead. Now Tombes andMonuments may be called defolate places in -two refpeds. Firft, Becaufe when the body is laid in there, all cor."npany and all friendsleave it ; you thall havea mighty train following their friend to the grave, but there they leave him. Kings and C4un- fellers have RarelyFunerals, but when their fubjeófs or friends, favourites or tlatterers,have brought them to the Tomb,and ope- ned the door ofthe grave, they go no further, they will not go in with them, and dwell with their bodies in the duff of death, as much as they honour'd or ador'd them when they lived: fo that they are in defolateplaces.r Secondly, Graves may be called defolateplaces,becaufe Tombes and Sepulchres were in defolate places, they were made in fome utrop. 1. 8, high Mountain or caved Valley, in fome place remote from the kin urbe ne fe- company andhabitations ofthe living ; for in former times they petito neve did not bury in Cities or in Towns,but inplaces where few came, trite. till they were carried,and therefore properly called defolateplaces. It is obfèrved,that among theRomans,the firlt Emperour that was buried inRome was Traja n.And the Law of the twelve Tables did prohibit both the burial and the burning ofthe dead within the City. So then it is clear, that anciently Tombes andMonu- ,ments were ereaed in defolate places, and that great colt was be flowed in buildingand beautifying of them both which favour and illui rate the Expolition given. It follows in the Text; Or with Princes rvho hadgold,nzho fill their boufis withtreaftere. The word Sar, a Prince, in the Hebrew, as in moft other Ian- guages, lignifies the cheif, the head, the frf{ : Some Criticks con- ceive that our Engli(h word C Sir ] comes from it, it is very near in found, and fo is the French word E Mounfer] to this Original, for aPrince or Chief. ob defcribeth Princes thus, they are °filch as bad gold, noting both what the Rudy & endeavours ofPrinces are,namciy,to lay up gold
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