J" C hap. 39. In Expotion upon theBookof j o B. Verf. i, 3 t men receive hurt in and from the evil world, they hive fome herb or other, fome comfort or other for their cure; they go to the Word of God, to theScriptures, there they find Medicine for alitheir fickneffes, Betany for all their bruifes, and a Salve for every fore. Thus we may fpititualiie our meditations upon thefe wild creatures the Goats of the rocks, in allufion to the !late of godly men in this life. Icnowe(t thou the time when the wild Goats of the rock bringforth? Qn canft thou mark, when the Hinds do calve ?. Here's another fort of wildones, the Hind, Can't thou mark? the word imports the molt firi& and heedful marking ; 'ris tiled `VC`S;folícire. by Jacob (yen. 37, i t .) when 5rofeph had told his dream, his dtnco< s&diti. Brethrenenvied him, but his Father obferved the /dying, that is, gent he marked what his Son had laid. Theword is often ufed to note nowt. our dutiful keeping or heeding the commands of God, which fhould be done with the greatefh flri&nets, care and obfervation. Now faith the Lord to Job, cants thou mark (or obferve) when the'Hinds do calve ? as if the Lord had fa"id, daft thou keep their reckoning exaflly ?, art thou able to tell the day and hour when they will calve ? The word rendredRind comes from a root fig nifying firength. Hinds are firong, though timorous and fearful rint corva creatures; and for their fearfulness they have a help befiides their firength, that is, their fpeed or fwiftnefs ; and though their firength doth not ferve them fufficiently to (land and make head againfi their purCuers,yet it ferves them (as we may fay) to thew their purfuers a fair pair of heels, or to run from them and efcape their. danger. Can't thora.mark, when the Hinds Do calve ? It is the fame word in the Original, which in the former part of the verle is tranflated tobring forth ; but becaufe that fpecial 8 ermmi g word calving is more proper to Hinds, therefore we wave the fecedit,utqut general lento bringing forth, which is applicable to any kind of pondere fuæ beafls ; and take this, not rendring as before, when the Hinds corputensie bring forth, but when they calve. The Hind is a wild beail often copi fe poffe fpokenof in Scripture, and well known in nature ; the male we Anti( c!se téÌst. commonly call Stagg or Hart, of which naturalifia obferve t:vvo r, q, de natura things.' antrsotrum; . Fir RI
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