01áp, r, AnExpofdo t upn the Book of J QB. Vera., 6. 59? ffandupon my hands, I cannot get themoff, myfarrows clog my time, and make. euery -houre fe.eme a year. Flezeliah in his com- plaint upon his..fick, bed, ufetht this AO lion, Mine age it de- parted and removed from me, as afhepberds tent, I have cut off like.aweaver my life, Ifa. 38. tz. As the weaver cuts off the thred when the web is tinithed, fo it is with me, I havecut off as a weaver my life ; Not that .Hezekiab was athve in his own death, . we are not to undertland irfo,for he pray'd that God would fpate him;and he fpake this upon thepromu e ofGod, to lengthen out his life, and torye the thread of his dayes again, according to which the web was wovenon for fifteen years more; But this- fpeech ofHezekiah, as a weaver I have cut of my .life, is like that-of the Apofile., I have finifhed my courfe. He compares the. paffiñg ofhis life to a fhuttle, and the conclufion of it to the cut- ting off, of the thread ? Nights and dayespafs thisfhuttle forward and backward, to and again, the night calls it to the day,and the day to the night; between thrfe two, time quickly weares offthe thredof life. The heathen Poets had a 1i. ion anfwering thisal -. lufwn of theholy Ghoft ; they tell us a Flory, or afiction rather, of ryes Fame three fillers, whereof one held the wheel or the diftaffe, the dote Coch/ls feconddrew the thred, and a third cut itoff : :In this day they lha- .errolot' dow the ftate ofmans life ;our ordinary phrafe for - living long,, is fpinning,a long thred, and for dying, the. cutting off the thred oflife : And they are. fpent without hope. Some tranflate,. they ,are fientfo, as that there it no hope left. The word, which here we áua ?'e en lifh, fient, fi gnifies both confumption and con f ormation , or ` Dv" n am"' fometimes in a gpod fenfe, the end or perfecting of a thing, rItm3 and fome.time in an-ill fence, the end or canfuming. of a thing,. Gen. 2. I. So the heavens and the earth were frnifo,,ed ; It is this . word, they were ended. God.ended his works by way of perfe- ¿ ion,and confummation, he made his work compieat. But here, and often in Scripture, it notes ending by way ofconfumption, or as we tranllate, the fpending ofa thing ; Jer. 14. 12. I will con- fume( or make an endof) them by the(word , And Exode 33. 3, God commandsMofei, to goe with the people into the wilder- nefs,fur ( faithhe) /will not goe up in the mail of them, left I confume thembathe way., And to Phew how deep an expence and confumption of time was upon him, yob cells us, it had devoured and eaten up all his hope .
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