Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Book ofj O B. Ver(.26. $43 !light what I Cpeak,becaufe I am in filch a low forlorne condition. That ofSolomon comes to this fence, Ecci.9.i6.7hepoormans wif- dome is defpifed, and his words are not heard. It is common in Scripture to put light, vain and unprofitable words under this exprcffiion, they are but wind. In the 15th of this books verfe. 3. Should he rearm with unprofitable talk, or with f peeches wherewith he can doe no good ? Should a wife man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the Ea. -wind? That is, fhould a man talk nothing, but that which is vain and un- profatablc ` ? And fh, Jer. 5. 13. The Prophet fhall become triad ; That is their prophefies (hall become wind ; what - foever they (peak ( laid Chat unbeleiving people ) fhall be put as-a vain thing, it hhall be as nothing, it thall pats away, and the place of it thali be known no more ; Thus they andervalued the Prophets in thole times,when they fpake the truths of God, and brought them immediate meffages from heaven. Hence ob- ferve That words without reafän, weer vain words, are no words, they are but wind. Hence thofè prop! ane ones in Jeremy, who Paid the true Pro., pliers had belied the Lord, and were but wind, adde presently, And the word is not in them : Tht is, the words of there Pro- phets are no weds. n deed the Lòd anfwers for his prophets, at the n.}th verfc,telling the people beta 1e they had thusdi(honou- red his meffengers,'that they thould find, thole words, which they accounted wind to be a fire, Thus faith the Lord, becaufe ye f Peal. this word, behold, Twill make my words in tby mouth fire, and this pe;pie wrod, and it (hall devour them. Wholoever e deems the word of God to be windy (hell find it to be fire : and - they who will not be taught by ir, shall be confúmed by it. But to the point in hand; we fee in that Scripture vain words are windie words, and windie words are as no words. The Prophets (as they fuppofed ) were wind, and thence they infer, the word is. not in them :That is, their words have no Cubflance, flrength or pow- er at all in them. So, Hof; 12. I. Ephraimfeedeth on wind, and . foltoweth after Koji. Wind ; What was the wind . that E;:hraim fed upon ? -Some vain words, Come promiles, he had from the creature to be delivered, Come hopes railed by the word of man, who is a wind ,therefore his feeding upon thole hopes, was but a feeding upon wind,there was no ground or flrength to make thole, . words
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