Chap. 39. 6,/fn Expoftion upon the Book of J o B. Verf, z,_,e 217 fütfil ; that's as great a fecret as the number of any mans dayes in i this world are. Yet it may be obje&ed ; Purely it is no fuck hard matter to number the months which Hinds and wilde Goats fulfil : For if he queflion be, what time of their age Goats firfl conceive, and ,,, ando how long they continue bearing, Pliny anfwers . Sometimes a w alefen:- they conceive at ayear old, alwayes attwo years old ; and (faith per binæ C!r he) they continue bearing eight years. Secondly, If the que pariuntofanK (lion be, about what time of the year they conceive and bring annis. PIMt. forth ? the fame Author aafwers, They conceive in November, I.t;.c. so . and b.ing forth in t_March,ío that they go burdened five months. Again, if the queflion beabout the Hinds, he thus refoives it ; 7 h ty conceive about the latter end of September, and bring forth about the middle of eApril, the whole time they go, being a- pao,,ù n,anJ7- bout eightmonths ; fo that there teems no fuch difficulty in turn- bus ferunt par.. bring the months, which either wilde Goats or Hinds fulfil, that tus. PlFn,L8. is, how long they go withyoung. C. 32. I anfwer ; Though the general time which they fulfil may be known, or is known and fet down by Writers, yet the precife particular time, the day of the month, or hour of the day, or (which is the thing enquired) when their months come out and are fulfilled, that's a fetter. Though it be commonly known, that a woman goes nine months with child, yet who knows , or can a womanher Pelf know exa&ly to a day, or an hour, when her pains andtravel will come upon her ? Many women have been under great miflakes in that ca"e , and rarely do any hit the time right, but reckon a day two or three over or under the jufl account. So then, though the general time is known , yet the exa& particular time is not known. I may fay in this cafe , as our Lord Jefus Chrill Paid about the end of the world, Of that day and hour knows ns man ; we may know the general time, t've may know it will not be long before the world (hall end.The time which the world (hail go with its great birth; is commonly laid to be fix thoufand years ; but the day and hour of its travel, and of the confummation of all things according to the decree of God, noman, no nor Angel, knows. Here the Lord queflions Pak about the exa61 particular time, which him Pelf keeps,as he doth all fpecial feafons, in his own h nd or power, under his own lock and key,as Chrifi told hisDifciples,(A61.1.7) Canft thou slumber the ..months thet theyfulfil ? doft thou keep their reckoning ? 11r
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