5o4 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O 13. VerC i;8 once in Scripture : it fignifies alto, f cattered,or diffipated.And the reafon is, becaufe heat or warmth, diffipates and feparates thofe DrÉPati, 'td 5 things which were unied or congeled.TheSun warms the fireams, and then the waters which food on a heap, fcatter and difperfe. The fumof all is : Thefe Ili-cams in winter have nothing to (fay their confuming, but their hardning;and as foon as a heat corns, they diffolve, and are gone, in fummer thefe brooks.are dry. This is yet further illufirated in the 18. vcrfe. thepaths of theirraay are turnedafide, they go to nothing and pe. rifho What he he had Paid before in thofe words, They vanih and are confumedout of.their place, he faith again in thefe, The path! of their way-are turned aftde, they go to nothing andperiflo ; that is, thefe flreams are, as if they had never bten: you cannot finde them in their former channels ; thefe waters are quite fpent,the Sun at a few draughts, . empties thefe yeffels, and draws them dry ; .Io that there isnot adrop left, either for man or beaff. i 1 The word which we render, .turned'afide, tignities, to gather Y"elemav`; up a contrael into a narrow compafs, as when a man of courage, percelluZt. gathers or fhrinks uphimfelf, or, as we fay, buckles to a hu(inefs, that he may.put out theuttermoftofhis flrength.So judg.r6.a9.- When Sampfant came to the pillars on which the !route ftood, the text faith, He turned himfelfwith all his might; -(it is the word of the text) as if Sampfon would collea all the power he-had into. one place, to pull the pillarsout of theirs. He that would do a` great fervice, will have all his outward firength about him, or near at hand. And at fuch a time, a man will have all-his-inward frength dole together,and therefore puts his body into lets room,. ifhe can that all his members may adt as one. We shrink up the body alto into fitdden fear. The word is fo-ufed, Ruth 3 .8. When Boaz, that good man,awakning,found Ruth at his feet, and per. ceived there was a woman on the floor, he gathered or fhrunk up himfelf,as a man that is afraid in his bed, will gather up his limbs nearer together, and-lies in left room, In fuch a manner the heat gathers, or thrinks up the waters. Thus the paths of thefe waters (faith Job) are thrunk up or"ga -, thered together as it were,into one channel, or theycreep under the banks, to filcher themfel_ves from that great Driuke and River J
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