598 Chap. 7. An Expofition upon tbeBookof) .0 B,. yerta 6, ditation( fo Come tranflate) fuddenly or . fwiftly, a., difcourle.is quickly over, whether it be adifcourfe from themouth, or in the naind;andofthe two,the latter is far the more fwift and nimble of foot;a difcourfin our thoughts out-runs the Sun,as much as the fun outruns a (jade; the thoughts ofa man will travel the world o, ver in a moment ; he that now fits in this place, may be at the worlds end in his thoughts before 1 can (peak another word. So that the tranílation or glofs, by fpeech or meditation,-aggravates 11% , the fence,and extends it to the higheft, But the word properly 1 gnifies ( as we tranflate ) a Weavers Jhuttk,which ¡San in(irument ofa veryfwift and hidden motion, t7P- And the word which we render [ Swifter] lignifics that which is fined for the fwiftetî motion, Any light thing, becaufe thofe things which are light,move fwiftefi; and we call a good runner, a man light offoot,Hab. z.8.The horfes of the Chaldeans are thus lefcribed, Their horfes arefwifter ( or lighter offoot ) than the Leopards, fo, fwifier or lighter than the,weavers flanttle, which rdiusïexto- paffeth the borne or web with fuch (peed,that it is Browne to a rrdiwre o. Proverb, for all things which are quick and tranfient. The La pert,:fe, rar tines exprcfs it by that word, which lignifies a ray of the Sun, alactarso which is darted in a moment fromone end of the heavens to a- nother: Buta queftion rifer. fib in the third Chapter, and fo in the fifth,complaíns that his life was fo prolong'd,and flo v-paced that it was very tedious to him ; and in this Chapter by a repeated re-' queü,he fpurrs and battenshis life to it's journies end ; he thought it»feemes) his time not wing'd,biat flow footed ; how is it then, that in-this place hecomplameth of the fwiftnefs of his daies ? Mydayes arefwifter then a weavers fhuttle. 1..anfwer, In a word : By his dayes, here,we are to underhand his good dayes, his dayes ofcomfort andprofperity ; thedayes of my peace and ple..ty,areflipped away and gone,even as a weavers Tuttle. But when he complains that his life is flow- footed, and tequefts that his dayes might move faller, hemeans the dayes of forrow and trouble which had overtaken him in his journey ; the former were too fwift, and the latter tooflow ; It is as if he had laid rilás all rayfair dayes ofprofperity are gone, they are flips away as a' weavers fhuttle, they are as a tale that is told, nothing rcmazijes ofthem, but the remembrance, which is an addition to my Arrow ; but now I have dayes, thatfeem long, very .long, they ffancl
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