Chap. I. AnExpfstion spot the Bookof, 0 B. a . Vert 3, -3.7x. very orange and unheard of, to make a Ieague with á. heap of Bones. For the clearing of this we mull enquire into two things ; i. What thefe Bones are. 2. What this league with flanes loth import; Firfl, For the Stones there are divers opinions about them, and many interpreters have exceedinglyHumbled at thefe flanes Some change thefe flones.into men, flrong men, or the fìrongeft of men. That of fob in the next Chapter hath fame allufion to it,vcr. r 2.1s my /rrength theflrengtb o fhones? A (}tong man is ftrong as a Hone. TheChalice Paraphrafl, underflands byfronts, the Law, which was written inHones. Thou /halt be in league with theftrnes, that is,the Law written in Tables offlew fhall never hurt thee. But that (as to this text) is a mear conceit, though (in it fell)a great truth, and our greater( comfort, that beleivers are at league with thofe Law- frone,, which left in power and hoflility, would have broken all mankinde topieces, and ground them to powder. Chrifl hath made peace for us with the Law ; the Lawhad a quarrel at us, and the Law would have been upon us with an everlafling war, if 'Chritf had not fettled our peace by farisfying the Law ; Sto.. Ring to death bad been the death ofu, all, if Chrifl bad not made a league for us with theft flows. Thirdly, Others interpret thefe Hones by a Metonymy of the continent for the thingcontained, Thou Mott be at leaguewith the flints of the field, with the Rocks, or rocky places, that is, thou (halt be at league with thofe creatures, or with thofe beafbs, which lye among the flanes, and have their dens about hollow rocks : and fo they make the latter branch [ And the beafis of the field Mall 4.1 at peace with-thee: to be exegctical,7 giving us the expo- fition of the former,or {hewing what is meat-it by beingat league with the flanes of the field ; floe (halt 6e at league with theflone,t of the field, that is, with the beafis who make their dens and)the r holes,and their hidingplaces among the flanes of the field: This is a good fence of the words. But leaving the former with force other apprehenftons about thefe (tones, I (hall take thefe (Tones properly, and fo they will fall under four confiderations,all which give light to the clearing of this Text, and the manner of our league with !Jones. Firff, Asnaturally fcattered upon the face of the earth fo bins Bbbz driv
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=