5'6o Chap. G. An Expofttionupon the BookofJ O B. Verf. 30 havebeen faid, The Book, ofthe Law fhall not depart out ofthine Itatneditaberis beart,but thou fhalt meditate therein,or ifnot out of thy mouth,then ea ex ipfaeogi- thou(haltfpeal pf it. Meditation is too high a work for the rottone mouth yet,betaufe there ought to be much meditation about the effervefcestr, . g redu,:denr, Law of God, before a word of it comes out ofthe mouth, there- ebullaut more fore the Lord faith, The Bookof the Lamfhallnot depart out ofthy verba, mouth, but thou(halt meditate therein day and night ; that is, as oft as thou (halt (peak, thou (halt meditate, thou (halt not (peak rathly,it {hall not be the wo rk of thy tongue alone, but of thy mind and tongue together. There is a fcoed reafon, why adsof the underftanding area- fcribed to the tongue,or to the fenfes:becaufe when a thing is well fpoken, or duly a6ted by any fenfe, reafon is t he guide and the bodily Organ is under the dilates 'of the mind or underftanding. So Gen. 48.r4.whenold Jacob ingiving the bulling unto Jofephs children, Manafetb and Epraim, laid his right hand upon the younger, and his left hand upon the elder,the text faith,hemade P rud s(uír, his bands tounderhand, we tranflate, he guidedhis bands witting- tnanlGu tams y there was Co much reafon, fuch divine reafon in that ad of acJiiDleum Jacobs hands,in laying his right :and upon theyounger,that the mtfleriorranr. Hebrew gives it with this elegancy, he made his hands to un; eonfcúa E dertiand which one of the Jewifh writers, learnedly expounds Onkel, thus, He order'd his bands wifely, as they had been made acquainted with that great mifteryof Gods counfèls, that the greater bleffing was the portion oftheyounger Son. And to the Pfalmilf (Pfal, 78.72.) (peaking of David: raign and goverment faith, He go- verned themby the skilfulnefs of his hand:. The Hebrew is, by the underftandingof his hands and more, the underftanding of his bands. Or as one renders it, The diferetion of bis hands, or 1-11 y33'l2 theprudencyofhis palmes, afcribing all kind of politick know- 1 BD ledge and underftanding mito David. David in outward admi- In imelligeue- niflrations ofthe Kin g dome after' with fo much reafon and ju- üÌ, manuum, vel volarum; dice, that his very hands are Paid to underftand; His bauds un- derftoodmore, than theheads ofother Princes. As David: hands, fo Jobs pallateor talle, had an underftanding; Cannot mypallate underhand ? Yet further, it is frequent in Scipture metaphorically to tran- flate things, which are only aced or apprehended by the inward {énfes, to the outward. Tafie properly, is of meat and drink; he lultkkeur or mo ifturet which is in meates,futable to the falival humour
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