Chap. 6. An Expofition upon ibe Bookof J OB. Verf. r nacle, the loops,and (veri. 17.) the Tennons are all called women andfilter, becaufe they were all to be of the fame materials and fltiPrater dimenfions. roer,(ne,r Some Criticks obferve, that the Hebrew word fora brother, &ber, rum -7114unur,vel is ofnear brother hood or alliance,with two other words,where- `1rr pariter, of the fire fignfìes, One, and the other Mike, or Together, to quoniam yuiji- thew that brethren ought to be as One &Alikeor Together,which miler Jammer latter is by an elegant Paranomatia, joyned. with it,Pfal. 133. I. in unoconveni- unt,franet di- Beholdbow goodandplea./ant is it for brethren to dwell together in (unto. unity, or as we put in the Margin, todwell even together. DlDti So then, the very word,wherebybrethren are expretfed,notes that thereought to be a nearnefs, aftmilitude, yca,an Onenefs(ift m y fo (peak) between them in their affc&tans and of ions. Yet. (faith -Job) thefemen whofe relation thus obliges them, have laid themfelves out to my greaten di_fadvantage. 1Î) brethrenhave dealt deceitfully with nee. Theword imports dealing perfidioufly or trecheroufly in any terf[d it, kind Ifa, 21.3 .The treacherous dealer, dealeth trecheroufly. And it perftdaegit,vr- .tov,: fides, is applyed to that treacheryor perfidioufnefs,which is the highett velfadus. in civil-relations,the treachery ofthe wife to the husband, Jer, 3, 20. Surely as a wife:reacberoufly departeth from her husba.td,foyou have departedfromme ; Idolatry is the violation ofour faith to Chris, and therefore often calledadultery. This word (to note that by the way) as-it fìgnifìes todeal per- frdioufly, in the Verb, and pertìdioufnefs and treachery in the Noun; fo alto agarment, :or-veffure made up ofany kind of matter ring qua tie or fluffe. And the reafon is thus givenby Lthe learned Hebrician, flimeatumfrt Recauf agarment is both the cover and the rritnefi efmans frrJf primaborninir perftdioufnefs and treachery againjf God. Our firft parents in conrrr_Deue innocency.had nogarment, but innocency : they were without po a um t "- clothing,and wanted no>cloathing;theywerenaked and did nor CI tefifaanittm, perceive theirnakednefs ; - but affoon asthey departed from God turn anteo bo treacherouf}y,their fn told them,that is,made them feel that they mu nudes fug were naked : therefore they put themfelves on Aprons of leaves, ritt flux. but God cloathed themwith the skins,and cloathing he. vefted in a, word of that language, which fhould ever mind man of the rea- why,cloaths were firft put upon- him, namely, his perfidi= ous and treacherous dealing withGod.. That (take it inpaffage). which nowTo many make matter of their pride, is a 'wisnefs of their-
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