416 Chap. 40. An Expoftion upon the Boo of ) o a. Verf. 7. for profit ? gain fvweetens labour ; and the hope of "a market, the hardnefs of the undertaking. Shall they part himamong the cdterchants ? Hence wemay. note ; c2fercbandefe is of very antiesit ufe. Merchants have been of old buying and felling, conveighingby Land, tranfportingby fea,the commodities of one country to ano- ther; as it turns to the riches, fo to the honour, and manifold ad- vantagesof mankind. Only let Merchants be wife to trade hea- ven-ward, as well as earth -ward; and be careful they makenot fhipwrack of a good confcience, while their (hips and goods efcape ir. Let them often remember the Apcftles admonition ( a Cor. 7. 29, 30. ) The time is J7sort ; let them that buy, be as if they pofeffed not ; and they that ufe this world, eu not abufang it; for the fafbienof this world paffeth away. Be nát unwire Mer- chants, filch as mind not the true treafatre, the right pearl of p:ice. The Lordhaving in this fixth verte intimated, how hard a task, and how hazardous it is to take Leviathan, fpeaks is exprefsly in the next. Verf. 7. Gantt thea fill bis skin with barbed Irans,or bùbead with fifh(pears ? Barbed irons and ffh-(pears are inflruments in ufe at thisday for the taking of Whales,and Inch like Sea-monflers. Now, faith the Lord, though thou cants not draw up Leviathan with hook and line, yet poffibly thou thinkefi, he tley be conquered with barbed Irons and (pears, The word here rendred barbed Irons fignifies thorns, becaufe fuck' irons are fharp like thornes. The skin of a well-grown Whale is extteam tough, and not eafily penetrated ; fo that the Lord might well fay, Canff thou fill hie skin with bar - bed Irons? or his head with fi(b fpears ? Yet, I conceive, there clueflions do not import an utter impofiibility, but the extream difficulty of taking the Leviathan, what animal foever it is. The learned Bochartes takes there words, as much favouring his opi- nion forthe Crocodile ; Fir (faith he ) they who write about the manner of catching the Whale , ref if e that he is overcome with Jhowsre
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