bq:o :Chap. 7. An Expofrtion upon the Tookof J O B. Verf: 15 him upon dt fperae thoughts of Jefiroyíng him(df : Mj foul choofrngJtrangling,that is, I am often tempted and almost pre. vailed with, to make my felfaway. The learned phyfitians tell us, Abhajufmodi that their patients have often attempted todestroy .themfelves tho. f eEirit mu'tis rough the tcrrours of dreamcs and vifinns. elan<flratfgu- Yet we ma y underfland the word (Jfrangling) only of natural 1 jZ pcér and ordinary.Every death is a kind of tfrangling;ancifotnedifeafes ajjcrit.iiippo flop and choke a man even as firangling doth ; fo that, bly foule choofethJtrargling, may be taken in general, Myfouleshoofetb death rather eben life. My'foïnle choofeth. He puts the foul (as it is often in Scripture) for the wholeman and the fence ofall is, as if he had laid' If I might be my own choofer, ifI might have my elc lion, 1 would even take the wort ofdeaths rather then the life which now I live. My foul eboofeth firangling. Anddeath rather then life. Ifwe take it firangling for a fpecial death, then heredeath is put ingeneral ; As thus, iffirangling be tooeafe a death, let me die any kind ofdcath, Death rather then life. C3.0 The Hebrew in the letter is, And death rather then my boner Otoroeóredy which Come render thus, And death rather then to be with my flum,nihil in bones. To be with our bones is to live. Others make thischoo- ipfa tem forte ling an ad of his bones, Myfoul choofeth *angling and my bones (5firmum,quod death ; that is, every part ofme choofeth death, all vote for the vir Mori, non debilirarat 6,, grave, 1 have not a difenting member, no nor a diffenting bone ; eonfegerat, when David prayes Pfal. 6. 2, Heal me 0 Lord for my banes Aquin. are vexed ; His meaning is, I am vexed quite through. And when he promifeth ( Pfal. 35. to ) All my bones Jhall fay, who it like unto the Lard, &c. his meaning is, that he will praife God quite thorow foul and body. Againe ( Lam. r , 13, ) from above ¡bath befent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth againft me, that is, he hachutterly confumed me. Sòhere the whole man is expref- :fed by parts Soul and bones, or body and foul, that is, whether I confider the angui(hof my foul, or the pains ofmy body, I delire to die Thitdly. [ Deah rather then my bones ;1 bccaufe he had fuch fore putrilïed and aflliíedbones, painful bones For when Satan defined
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