372 Chap. S. An Expofttion upon the Book, of J O. Vert. 2 3 dring travellers,or endangering a man in haft upon his way.Onc part ofArabia, was called Arabia Potrea, or the flony, becaufe is was full of Roues, and fo uncafie either for tillag° or travel. rspisa Le- Stones are fo dangerous to the foot,thac the Latim word is de- dPrdopede ro, rived from hurting the foot ; hence thole. Scriptureexpreffìons, run babel. HumblingHone, and a rock,of offense, becaufe men are fo apt to Bumble at ftones.And both thefe are applied toChrift in a figure, he is called A 'tumblingflone, and a Rockofcffence. Cbrifl in himfelf it the moll preciousand (lea foundation -florae to build on, but be it the ',soft fore and dangerous flcnito/Jumble on : to be in league and Covenant with that living (lone is the bighefl mercy. Secondly, Tilde hones, as they lyenaturally hidden in the a Lopidester. bowels of the earth, or under theearth, are a trouble to the Huf n finales. ta bandman in tilling the ground, in plowing and fowing,and they 1, tapidesv Often endanger the breaking of his plow, and hinder the rooting 'Dili. and growth of the feed Town. L pisirionis dl r artificially together C koraani De- Third y,Confider thefe Hones as Iaid`. ó for um habebant ; the making ofa wall or mound tofence and part field from field, u'm Termi- or both from the common fields and high wayes. n,,nr vpctbmr. Fourthly,Cot-tfrder thefehones as artificially and induftriot fly 1t veusfnium placed for mark and boundaries, to diflinguifla private mens lands, erJt, Pig.!. i e civ.Dei cap or theprecincts of fuch and fuchcountrics,which are commonly a3. La£r.t.r.c. called a Mark fiones,or Boundary -Hone.; as alto tones let in roadcs ° or high ways,for the direecion of travcllers,pointing which way c1 Tevarzirifive to o. to eminent Towns orCittics. Of fuch a (lone we read ( LcpuJîivece g 4 frf,s in a_ Sam. ';0.. 19.) when' fonatban badDavid flay at the.flone Ezel, gro, wipes, ab that is, as weput in the Marginof our Bible', tile fine that tigerish iqurs, ru the wily, or the b tray-Rene. Thefe boundaryHones; or way- feones quol; nusner, todire& travellers, were famous in antiquity ; infomuch that a among the t Heathen, They were worfhipped as a Ged,or Namen, jai im Fa o (,mnisera as diversof the Chriflian Fathers have obferved in their learned Jnetrt tigiofus. reports of heathenifh idolatrywhich allo their own Poetsd had a,er elegantly defcribed both in their conflitution and ufcs ; giving e Etfeorvome tholeJones a charge faithfully to ccflifie,e'This is par land,úr this "heir it -ours. And they brake out into commendation of the integrity heir % it if,r raata of thefe witni ffes,whom.no threats could terrifie, or bribes cor- is cfi b.c ,rapt to (peak a lye, or conceal the truth. u;'ri;le tc;u; Nnw confider the other term, what it is to be in league with ft )tit s, in anyof, or in all thefe acceptations. Lt general we know that to be in league with ftenet,is an impro- per
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