-.._..___. 47g Votf. 7, an Expoftion upon the Bek J o B. Chap. 37. fence of Pealing ; He /hallfeel tranfgrefon, that is, he Chail cover or hide our tranfgreffions, for that is the effe of the Mediator- , °lip of Jens Chrill, Thirdly, To feal a thing is ( in common fence ) to confirm it ( jer. 3 z, 10, i t . ) I ( faid the Prophet ) fubfcribed the -Evi- deirceand ruled it ; that is, I confirmed is and made it good in Law, Nowwhen 'tis faid hete,Yefeslcth rep the ha4d ofevery man, I conceive we -are to take is in the fink fence, that is, he hideth or flaws ua every mans hand. The hand is the chief in(lrutnent of working, and therefore to fay, God flatus up or Peals thehand, is an elegant Metaphor, fignifying that God puts a flop or flay to, or that he takes men off from their work. If a mans hands be bound or Pealed up he cannot ufe them. But how doth God Peal up the hand of every man, of every working man or labourer ? By the Snow and by the Rain, faith Elihu ; becaufe when God fends abundance of Snow upon the earth, or when he fends the great Rain of his firength,men cannot Heins inert di- work t in a deep fnow, or in a great rain, without doors, Labour- vitapod ho. mines :ogse de- ersare hindered from their labour ; And hence anciently, fidere ineetes ter had this title givenit, dull or flaggi h winter ; became in the elconplicatis extremity of winter weather, manymen are forced to fir ( as we ,nronió v, fay) with their hands in their pockets, or folded under their acmes. Hefealethup the hand ofevery min, that is, by tempeflu- aus and fowl weather, he bindestheir hands and preflech them to -. gether as with a Seal. Itt manta ones The Hebrew is, In the hand hewillPeal, or, fealeth every man, homilies obÑ Fromwhich flrit reading, fome have made .a very impious inter- ntbzr,Mot3r. pretation of this Text, thereupon grounding that (as .1 1,41 ufe it) moll unwarrantable Art of Chiron ocy, as if God did put certain Lines, Prints, or Seals upon the hand of every man, f-om <h.nee it may be collee}ed and concluded, what ( as forme call it ) his Fortune or Defliny will be in the world. Which, as i is an opi- nion wicked in it felf, fo altogether herrogeneal ro this place, the tendency whereof is not to (heav how things (hall work wi h men hereafter, but how they are often hindered or flopt in, or from their relent work. Vebomentia p omnembomi. There is yet another reading of the place, thus, He fealeth up neta recluditt. every man with flrength. The word which we tranflate hand, they Merc. pagn, tranfate fireegrh, and refer it to God ; he with dc'eng, h, or by his
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