Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v12

146 Chap. 38. t1n Expoftion upon the BoolZof J 0 as. Verf. id. mcri Numquid in- Verf. r 6. , H41 thou entred into the fprings of thefeat ? greffus es ,,eel Pzretr. h ? Haft thou ? Douhtlefs thou haft not , nor ha(i thou any mind to enter into thole fprings ? Whobath ? Haft thou entred or pene- trated the fprings of the fea ?. There is a twofold entring into the iprings of the fea , or into any thing that lies remote trom us. Firi+, A Local. Secondly, An Intefleo`ìual entring. To be fure,fob had not locally entred the fprings of the fea;and it was as fore, chat he was not able to make any perfedt intellediu- al entrance thither.4äh:r. therefore the Lord asked job this que- tìporzei,udi- (lion , Haft thou entred into the fprings of thelea ? it is as if he rem no/fe s de had laid', It becomes him that makes a Judgement upon any rosat- qui on judiec.t. ter , to enter into it either locally to view it with the eye or intel- cjwuteji: tr! , Itfhoal review it withhis ssnderflandirt but thou , 014, veinjudicat ,g i hag rieoperitume neither of these ways entrtd into the fprings of thelea, and there s, cosiea ton dicoveredhe the matersflow or rifeup out ofthe earth : how then Pori. Vatabl. canfl thou snake up a judgement about the waters ? and ifnot, what judgment can't thou make sop concerning my deep counfels, concern- ing the fecret fprings of my Judgements ? Hall thou entred into thefprings of thefea ? There is an elegancy in the word rendred fprings , which fome $a rpm. ira,i. -. derive from a root which signifies to weep or shed tears; HaR Druf. thou entred among the tears or weeping places of the lea ? The Atiçui ,37) fame word in the Hebrew lignifies aneyes as alto a fpring or fyo,a, non a fountain ; because as the eye drops, yea pours out tears (David . ílendo, fed a faith ,. Rivers of tears run downmine eyes) fo, fprings pour out 19 er waters, and are, as it were,.weepitig continually. Others derive cunt. Et red- lea word from a root , which fignitieth lobe infolden orintana :duntperplexita.. d ; and fo they render it, Hall thou entred into the perplex:- Sat mans Sen- ties cr intricacies of thelea? Pharaoh used that word in the Verb fits eodem red- (Ezrod, 14,3 .) concerning the people of Israel , They are in- .dir, fed Gram- tangledor perplexed in the land she thought he had caught them in r tdcrat uáS the briars , and thould have had his will, or facisfed his tuff on 0°`1 11et,it them: The fenfe is much the fame , whether we read the de ea cur. fprings of the perplexities and istricateplaces of the fea ; both izsçc, tending `

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