Cap. 7, An Expoftian upon the Book of ) O B. Verf. 21. 699 as if I were one,againft whom thou refolveft todire& all thine arrows,and aim every firokcafo the word is ufcd,Phtg8.21.where Zcba andZalmunna, two Kings taken captive by Gideon, Paid to him,ri fe theta and fall upon su;it is this word , let us before thee as a mark for thy vi &>rious [word : So the Prophet ( firms 5 r 9. ) tells us that a man in hopes COefcape the hand of God, /hall be as tf a man did flu from a Lion , and a Bear meet him, fuch a mart is but a mark for a Bear , who thinks to out-run this Lion. That expreflron (g King. ç. 4.) is very clear to this fenfe , where the peacefulnefs of solomors reign is defcribed , thus, there wat nei- ther averfary nor evil occurrent ; the word we tranflate , evil cccur'ert, it is that in the Tcxt, no evil met or befell them. So then the funi of all is, That fob èxpátlulates or complains be- fore Cod, that he was as is were the man chofen out amongfl all the men in theworld, toibc as the mark and But againfl which God {hot his of ! &ietas, and level d -'s.Arrows : As if he had laid; T,}ere are manymoabout me,- i thou daft not fo much as touch one of the hair of theirs hear s there are men that -receive not fomuch as one that from thee, but I ammade thy Handing mark, why is it thus Lord ? So he exprtf ezh himlelf, in other words,but to this very leak, Chap- 19, II. Chap. 13.24. Wbcrt- fore bolde/I thou me for thine enemy ? or, ( according to the Leger of the Hebrew )among thofewho flraighten thee, as an enemy flraighrens a City, in the time of a liege : And this he doth to mote God to pity and compaffion ; Lotd, faith he, I am lei- as a mark againfithee. You would be much moved (a tender heart would)to feea man bound fait to a pofl,and another flandingoff with is bow bent,and hisarrow on the firing, with his Gun or pi- Rol cocky, aimlr'g at his breafl prefents himfelf in fuch apo> fiure,as if the Lord had bound him tall toa po[t or to a tree , and were pouring vollies of thor, and fending fhowers of arrowsupon him continually. O'hferve, fì: (1 themanner of the language, which is by way of a vehement queflion, or expoflulation , why haft thou fet me at a mark again/i thee ? t 4an to very iiefaifeivt:e knew the reafont of goals, lealindt with him® That's one thing. And fecondly which is near the fame, It tQ ¡me fatiafaEfton ani eafe to lb: mini.fmitten Sr the hand of Cod, to /snow the 'rta(on why be wounds , why be ¡mites. why Uuuu bash
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