g 32 'Chap' 5. An Expofition upon the Booka/ J OB. Vcrf. ting another/ball not eate. The negative is not fixed upoifitheii building, &c.but upon other inhabiting. And ' fo, Dent, 22, 4. fboujhalt notfeethy brothers Affe, or hit Oxefall downby the-way, . ■ and bide thyfelffrom themj That is, Thoufeeingtby brothers Jsffc' or'Oxefalldown,{haltnot-bide'thyfelffrom.them .*A man fome- times could not but fee his brothers.Afie or Oxe tall down,but he feeingmull not at any time hide himfclffrom then),- that ’is, not fuccour them; fo ( by the way Jthat phrafe of hiding may be in-, tcrpreted, by that of the Prophet (Ifa. 58. jJIhoufhali not hide thyfe lffrom thy ownflejh. But to the po>nt here we feef/emfeth fore& bindethup,may congruoufly to other Scripture- fpeakings, ■ berendcred.f/emakjngfredothbind«;>,asifthe wound wereapart-; of the cure, and the forea plaikr. We know that a wsuudin na- tujre is fomtime a part of the cure; It is a common and a.neceffiry m* Maos ' Pra<ftlfe1,1Chyrurgery( and to that the -holy Gholt may allude in Domini,petcu- h«splace ) when they perceive a wound or a fore, towhich me- tiem&eifo- dicines cannot well be applfidfand fo unfit for healing)either to. tubo,hetfad-make a new wound in the whole flub, or to make the firfi bigger. ummedia.For- The murderer wounds tokill, and the Phyfitian wounds tocurei m n W im fie.-comes as.it were arm’d,, with .mftfuments of cruelty. The elamatfecan- patient whofc fltlh is to b-; launccd, cryes out, but yet he laun* Aus fyfecatur, ceshim. The patient whofeficfh is io be-feared, cryes out, but! faviiur invul. yet he fears him.' He is Cruel to the wound, while he is moft' kind « J0®0/4*.to the wounded. , fylso cifr An ignqrauf tfianwpujdivyonder to fee a Chyrurgion, when fie m g tu ffp comes for. bealjngy^ftlff,the wofind wider,, yet fo-hemull do, and vulnuiiffligit, he doth it upon urgent reafons. As when the orifice is not wide enough<olet in the medicine, or to let out the corruption,or can- moimTura”1not admit his Latching mftruments to the bottomeiln fuch cafes,, smemaperit. Hefaith, Vnkfs Iinereafeyour wound, / cannot cure it. Thus. often times the Lord is.fompdled to wound,:that he may heal, or fit our wounds forhealing. Our wound i$not wideenough, to let out the fiuful corruptions ofour^Hearts, to let-in the fearching, inftrumcnts and corrofives of the L,aw, or the balmeand comfor- ble applications of the Gofpel. We may obferye fromthe fence of the words, That, " TheWoundingsandfmitings ofGodfart■preparatories.for our curt andhealing. \ , ' It isfindf J/i.53. 5..d ofChrift, th(tt with his firipes we art htaledi.md it is in this fencea truth, that we arehealedwith our own
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