Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Book, on® B. Vert15. z. The ProtaTs or própofal, We have here 2. The Exegis or explication. ofthis fimilitude 3.The Apodofis or application.L Or more plainly, we haxe four things.confaderable in it, x Propofed. ? 'Explained. The Similitude is Confirmed. 3 4. Applied. lit is, I. Propofcd,V , z 5.111y brethrenhave dealt deceitfully asa $rook,ere. 2. Explained ,verfe 16,í711S.Which'are blackfh by reafon ofthe ice, and wherein t he fnczv is hid, what time they wax warm, they vanifh, &c. 3.Confirmed,verf, r9. 2o. The troops of Tema lookedthe compa- nies ofSheba waitedfor them, they were confounded,becaufe they had hope, e-c, ..Applied to them,verfe 2 a. For nowye are nothing, ye fee my cafting dozen, and are afraid. So much for the parts, now to the opening of the words, Vet Ce i5. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, &c. My brethren.) The word fignifïes; firft a brother of the fames' 112 bowels(fo broths r is taken in the ftriae l fen.fe)a natural brother crater' p`°pï"- Secondly, a brother ofthe fame blood,,, any kinfman, guru, vat gut Thirdly ,it lignifies.any one that is knit to. us in affe projart us in manners and dtipofirion. L<tion,or like oneenta'mmgce ár:, vet omrcï-, Fuurthly,,it notesall chofe, who arebounded with us in the rrá fra tr efì. fame Nation,or affociated in the fame profcflion,though fcattered Eeisratrráuetus all the world;pvr.As in Scripture, that relative.word Father is;Jailrr, > > gusefimrte taken dr- not only fo`r a natural ather,but for any Leader, Guide,or nemgwndnm Director ofothers in fpiritual, or civil refpeets ; fo they who are ,ïnvrce°hoberos near one to another in civil or fpiritual .refpeC}s, are called bra- Chemnit, in thren ; though they be -never fo far diftant,inblood or place. H,rm>Evaeg. And it is obfervable that this word' likcwife is attributed to l auæd m re things inanimate, or without life;. When they have; a fimilitude terairas t' a- or likenefs one to another. So Exodus 25. 20. The faces of the ' 'n°rumæque- Cher`nbimr fhalllookone to another. The Hebrew is, each man to lttat, hit brother. And Exodus 26. 3. 5S he curtains of the, Taber- raacic, 497
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