Chap. 39. An Expoñtianupon the Bookof J o B. Verf. 5. 327 conceive, we need not be fo curious, for though we take both the formerand the latter word for the fame, the fenfe is clear, and the fame YYhobath font out thewildAfs free ? Or who bath loafed the bands of the wilde Afs ? But was the wildeAfs, here fpoken of, at any time in bonds , y uod and now fet free ? I anfwer, The Lord fpeaks thus figurativel jro:ndevk!e. not that the wilde Als was ever in bonds, but that becaufe he is tur aláud aná- fo untra&able, and will by no means be mannag'd, he feems to be ri ,Oñ, ú°' as one loofed frombonds, even as Oxen and Harles which ferve rum di/Tereus min, and are under his power, feem bound to his fervice. So Gro:. then,. as the former, fo this latter part of the verle is not to be Alaquiíertunr expounded,. as if the wilde Als had ever been under refirainr Onagrum and afterwards was lentforth free and Ioofed from his bonds' Alcen, quæ funt eluorum but both expreflions intend only, that as his difpoftion is for free- é. afrnorum dom, fo inhis condition he is, and alwayes bath been, free from sgreflitunge- bondage ; for not only is he free from bondage, who having been Hero. in bondage is delivered, as llaves and captives oftentimes are Drltingurt in- but he may be laid to be free from bondage or to have his bonds y , Alcen, E'linius loofed, who was never in bonds ,,who waseither bornfree, or 0s,c.15. who byhis wir, skill and policy, or the help of others, bath been preferved from bondage. A man may be faid to be free from ficknefs, that neverwas lick, as well as he that is refiored from ficknefs to health ; and fo a man that never was inbonds, may be Paid to be free from bonds, as well as he that is delivered from bondage. Thus the wilde Afs in the Text is faid to have his bonds looted, though he never was inbonds. As the Lord bath made all creatures, fo he bath made forne free, others fervile ; he bath fet fome at liberty, but holds others`at hard labour all their dayes, in drawing, travelling, or bearing heavyburdens. The wordsare plain ; the fum and fcope of them may be thus conceived : As if the Lord had asked fob,by whom this natural inclinationwas given to the wildeAfs, that he fhould foearnefily defire liberty ; as alto, who gave him that force and fioutnefs, that he fhouldbe able to live without Law, to followhis own tuff, not at all .fubmitting to, nor guided by the will of others. Wha bathfont eta the wilde e.Afsfree ? Hence
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