Chap. 34. An Expofktion upon the Book,ofJ o B. Verf. t7. dog mounded ? The fence of which reading is given thus ; Surely Godwho is ready to bihde up and heal the wounds,of thofe that are age-fed when they repent, is no hater of right, noperverter ofJullice, as thou Ofob haft fail God doth; feetng God is ready roheal the wounds, ad binde up the fores of humbled tanners, how unjufily haft thou chargedhim with perverting of juflice ? The Tygurine verfion gives it thus, Will he that hares right, aaAn qui odit ju- the part ofaChireirgion ? Will he binde up and heal ? Doubtiefs dieium Cbirur- he will not, but will rather wound and aff ia, vex and trouble gos ixivare:úr. more and more inflead of being a healer. Either of thefe ren- derings bear a good fenfe of this Scripture ; yet I fhall rather take up our Tranflatien, and infift upon ir. And therefore Thirdly, The word lignifies tropically to ruleor govern ; and Verbum ligandi the reafon arifeth clearly from the proper figniftcation of it ; be- tU01' Juati- caúfe he that is a Ruler or a Governour, is all() a binder and a,747:111'"' healer : Magiftrates binde the people that are under them to or- potiri, quia qui der, they binde them by their Laws. Laws are as bonds, they in:perant li- havea bindingpower, they binde either toobedience or to pu- gant, &c. nifhment; and therefore Magifirates are binders, they binde the Mere. unruly anddifobedient they binde with the rule of the Law, and Leger a lgan° Y dodicuntur. with the penalties of the Law. When any break the rule of the Law, thenthey fall under the penalties of, the Law, fo that every way a Magifirate is a binder ; and as he is a binder, fo a healer ; The Laws of Government by which people are bound, are for their healing, for the healing of their manners andcorruptions; as alto, for the healing of thofe whom they have oppreffed or wounded by their evil manners and corruptions. Further, all Governours fhould, and righteous Governours will improve their power and authority for the healing of thofe differences that arife amongtheir fubjeeIs, or thofe over whom they are fer; Mall there refpeets, Magifirates are healers and binders. Thus the Prophet (Ifa. 3. 6,7.) expreffeth them, when a Haan 'hall takehold of his brother, of thehoufe of his father, Paying, thou has clothing, be thou our Ruler, and let this ruine be under thine hand : Here is a breach, a ruine in the State or Commonweal, h, let this be under thy hand,do thou undertake the cure of this ; but in that day(hall he fwear (v.7 Iwill not be a healer : Weput in the margin, ,a binder , that is, I will not be your Governour ; your cafe is fo defperate, andyou are fo ob(linate inyour way, that I dare not nit under-
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