Chap. 6. An Expofztfea rrpon the Book of JOB. Verf. i 5i = 5 o t which run among the hills,hills are the original of Rivers,and they run among the bills hills fend them down as a portion to the val leys. But the brookhere fpolten of, is not fuch a brook, as bath a fpring in a hill, mountainor rock but a brook or torrent, caufed by rain, or melted fnow; the text c' ears that meaning; My friends have dealt deceitfully as a brook; a brook fpringing from a hill will not deceive, fuch a brook being fed with continual fupplies of water, will give us drink continually ; but a brook falling from a hill, fails quickly : fuch a brook, the next words exprefs more clearly, andas the ftreamofbrooks they pats away, pa; Aqua impetus. As aftream of brooks] That is, as thole torrents and over- Ia & violenta flowings ofbrooks a brook kath a conftant channel, and it hath qua flúit euno an accidental channel : we fee many firearms running into a v: tmpetu9 brook in a time ofrain, and that brook fwoln above its banks , fending out many ftreams So that to fay they are like the ftreamofbrooks, is to fay, they are like brooks, when they fiream forth, or to thole ¡breamsofbrooks, which by waters from the clouds, are fuddenly increaft : there firearm of brooks, ulually calledLand-floods, having their fpring or fountain in the clouds, which fometimes diftil in loft, (baking dewey fhowecrs, and often pour out in thong, violent fformy raines, whence there firearm (which in the Hebrew are denominated from their impetuous violent ftrength) run violently and fpend their ftrength as quick- ly. That which is violent cannot bepermanent, much lets perpetu- &rtllur violent al.. We have the Pfalm 126. 4, Where. the Church prayes, cumperpeuum Turn again our captivity 0 Lord, as the ftreams in the South ; which Tome render, As the mighty waters in the South. Why languffmogaaa would theyhave their captivity turned like thole mighty floods val mje. in the fouth?the realon is this,becaule the fouth is a dry country, Jun. where there are few fprings, fcarce a fountain to be found in a whole delert. What then are the waters;they have in the South? in "thole parched Countries ? They are there mighty firong tor- rents, which are caufed -by the (bowers of Heaven : So the meaning ofthat prayer in the Plaim, is, that God would fud denlyturntheircaptivity. Rivers come fuddenly in the South; where no fpring app:_ars, nor any sign of a River, yet in an hour ;, the water is up, and the fireams overflow. As when Eliah Cent his fervant toward the Sea (in the time of Ahab) he went and
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