426 Chap. 6. AnExpöfttion upon the BoolZbf J Ó B® Verf. 4e intends or aimes to the hurt ofhis brother, Pfal. 58. 7. When he bendeth his bow to fhoot his arrowes, let him be as cut in peeves. Bending of the bow notes the preparing and letting ofmifchiefe; Thearrow (hot out ofthis bent bowe, is the mifchiefe a6ted and finned ( Pfal. 2, ) The wicked bend their borne, they make ready their arrowupon thefiring; they prepare mifcheifs againft their, neighbour. Fourthly, For any kind ofaffliction, judgement or puni(hment, Zech. 9. 14. And the Lord(hall befees: over them, and his arrow [hallgoe forth as the lightning. Particularly, r. For Famine, Ezk, 5. 16, When Ifhall fend uponthem,tbe e- vil arrowes offamine. 2. For Peftilence, Pfal 91. 5. Thoufhalt not be afraid for the terrour by night, norfor the arrow that fleeth by day. What the terrour and the arrow are,is explained-in the next verfe, which is not an addition ofother evils, fromwhich fafety is promifed, but an explicationof the fame, Thepeffilence that walkr in darknefs, and the deftruc7ion ( being the fame peltilence ) wafting at noone- day. The meaning of all is, Thou (halt be kept or antidoted as gainft the plague both night and day. 3. Thofe thunder -bolts and haile- ftones, which God fends out of the Magazine of heaven, and difcharges in his wrath again(t wicked men, are called the arrows ofhis indignation, 2 Sam.22, 1.5. Pfal. 14.4. 6. & Hab, 3, a t. compared with Jofh, o. t 1. Further, the arrows of God lignifie inward afflictions, troubles afthe mind and fpirit ; God oftens (hoots an arrow, which pier- ces into the very foule. It was laid ofJofeph, The iron entred in- to hisfoule. And it is (in this fen le) very ufual for the arrowes of God to enter into the fouls of his people (jafal, 3 g , 1, 2. ) O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath, &c. For thine arrows fficke ,faff in me Where ftuck they ? He meanes it not of his body, hap. ly, the, skin of that was not razed. There is an arrow, which tou- ches not the fides, but fickes fall in the foule of a childe of God. Underftand it here,of the arrowes of afflidion;and thole either external, out ward calamities, fat-Ming in the flefh of Job ; or in- ï3aret lateri ternal, gallinghim to the foule and fpirit. Therefore he faith, be t et eitir orssdo arrows of the Almighty arewithin me, the poifon whereof drinketb up my fpirit, TAhcfe arrowes are defcribcd in the teat two wayes: From.
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