Chap. 5. volnExpofition iipon the Backe! J O B. Verf. 2 3 375 men of the field,they (hail prefetve thy corn and thycartel from annoyance.To thisafenfe fomcjoynthe former words with thefe, lapiseafepa,' ?boa"halt not be afraid ofthe beafts if the earth, for the !Josef of the nemo furobirur field, which lye in the walls and fences, (hall befriend thee, and "U1no infil;et keeptheni.out. When God would thew his intendment to de- '"1""u"' ftroy and lay wafts his vineyard, he cxprcfíesic by pullingdown the wall, , as before he had cxprefs'd his care to protes it, by building awall, (fa.,r, 2. /fenced it,and gatheredcut theftones thereof ; which we may under:fland thus, Igathered ottt the Ames (a1)d as it is ufual) made fence of them ; and had the vineyard brought forth fruit ,r had allobeen in league with thefe ftones,that is,thc flones of_.the wall had kept out the wild beafts, or any annoyance from them ; but being fruiclefs, the league with thole flones was broken > I (faith the Lord,ver. s.) will break darn the wail 'thereof, and it (hall be troden dawn. So that, in this fenfe, to be at levee with. the gorses ofthe field, is as much as to fay, the flame wall, or the floue fence which is made about thy field, :ball (land ropro- aç c and maintainthy land, thy fruits and cattel, from the in- I,cere porn i cur ons of wild beafts, from fpoyliug and treading down by cunt lapidibus any. abri,e past" . Fourthly,:rake thefe Stone.: for land- mars; or for way arks, rè vivere curl for boundary- (fonts, or for direr`lory" ones ; and then the fenfe may proximo, ite7es be thus conceived, Tbore ¡halt be at league with the (lone.; of the field ; uodnull that is, no man fhall come within thy bounds, none (hall terminor ogre remove thy land-marl', or invade thy elate, thofe bones (ball f itranfrtiru- firmly diftinguifh thine inheritance, thou fhalt have no contro- rutJlt,ocllcuta vertîe arifìng, which is thine, or what is thy pof effion. As if Q16utFPS an agreement had formerly been made with thefe /lone!, to keep pignisaa: ipfrg, offal! intruders upon their matters inheritance, and accordingly iopidospatlur thefe (tones i purfuance of that agreement ( like to many hired initum ferva_ fervants)fhould faithfully witnefs for their mailer, 'and chide a- rent, necolitor _way all who woulddo himwrong. (i SSam.7, i,)Semite! let up _ A /lone asa boundary of the conquefl and vi &ories, which the crrrfores, in aat Lord had given the children of Ifracl againfl the ?biliflines, befie rr nfgre/.ret rep a f lone, and called it Eden- Ez,er, or the /lone of help. Adding the iiiiam 11°6° fr,= reafon, hitherto bath the Lordhelped us as if he had Lid, "here g°re,t,P ed' is a ffa. a pf remembrance, how God bath helped us, and that 2'erminiagro. fîgne,feerned:tofpeak thus much to IPA!, Keep and hold what ruoeuorumá i nemine vim. ye have gotten, let not the Philtftines fet a foot (sinrevenged ) over lemur, nema or beyond ibis florae. So then in this fenfe, to be in itagett with tranfgrediatur, h3<
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