Chap. 6. An Expeftiost vpm the Boot¿ of J OB. Verf. ¡6. so3 dangerous, like that of the Prophet Amos ch. ï. 19. As if man did flee from a Lyon,and a bear met him ; or went into his houle, Elegantdiüum and leaned his hand on a wall, and a Serpent bit him. But as their to I1C7D ¡obi, tranflation is a corruption of the Text, fo their ordinary glofs f datc3CO corrupts their translation.* Ifearedfmalleft fins, but now I am braica ventate punifhed after the rate ofgreat fins. Whereas indeed job was ready Drut to acknowledge,that the leafs fin he ever committed, deferved a *rimebampee_ greater punithment, than the greatef pain he felt ; and yet never rate minima, looks uponanyofhis pains, as the puntthmentof his fins. But to twit punier pals that.- quefpro mug. P nis iceteribua, Take the minde ofjeb,as purfiting his fimilitude in more words Glof. to this effet.Thefemighty breams are but for a while , theypair away; or if at any time they continue, it is not from any quality or fitnefs they have in themfelves to continue ; but as their com- ing.is extrinfecal (not out ofthe ground, but from the air) fo is their continuance I grant thefe great Land- floods, force- times flay with usa while, not becaufe they have any ordinary, natural fupplyor flay, They are only blacOh by reafen ofthe ice a after a great rain in winter, a great troll comes, and then your water -courfes, or brooks !welling above their channels, are fur- prifed by cold,and cannot get away ,the cold condenceth the wa- ters, and freezeth them up, and the fnow is kept clofe frommelt- ing ; then thefe torrents or breams, feem to be falling fountains, and treafuresofwater: Or take it thus, he compares thofe friends, who adminifler no comfort in trouble, to brooks which in time of rain, when we. have no need, overflowwith water ; but in cold winter-weather are lockt up with !rolls, or in hot fummerweather, are exhaled and dried up by the Sun. As it follows Vtrf.t7. What time they waxxwarm,tbey vanifh,when it is hot, theyr are ,conftmedout of their place. Theft firearm you might think, living, tailing ilreams,or fl n ding, fixed waters, when you faw them frozen into great moun- tainsof ice and fnow compacted together : but flay a while and you !hall fee what becomes of them ; at the next- thaw, theyare confumed out of their place : Such friend; have I, and fuch is the frìeudthip ofmankind, unlefs God renew theheart, or 'canna it, 1' from itsnatural bafenefs. Dfflut e, di The word which we tranflatetowax-warm, is ufedd` but this fundt,Bux' once.
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