-._...._._.._ Chap. 9. AnExpofition «pow the Book of J O B. Vert: i 9. 293 two men cannot converfe orhave any bufnefs one with another, untefs they co: dent and appoint where and we if one be, for this time and place, and the other forthat, theycan never walk together. It is put for a let time,2 Sam. 24.. 15. the Lord having font the peflilence upon f erufalem for the fin ofDavid in num- bering the people,it is faid,the peflilence deftroyedfrom the morn- ing even to the time apointed;theLord had let the peflilence a time, it wrought to that time, and no longer. Further, The word is applyed toany Covenant,paF,or mutu- ,Obel- Mogned. all agreement : Hence the Tabernacle is indifferently called, The rabcrnaculune Tabernacl of the teftimony, or, The Tabernacle of the Con re ati- tbefiCelii. a f g pnóltc.tfidei on, becauft there God confirmed and fetledhis Covenant, and in;Deum at ha- made an agreement with his people, and his people reforted to minesconi#a- the Tabernacle to have the Articles of that Covenant made good eye, &e. Pined. to them by his own appointment. Hence (I fay ) it was called, The Tabernacle ofwitnefs, The Tabernacl e of the 740ment, or, The Tabernacle of the Covenant. Upon this ground alfo all the folemn feafts of the Jews were expreft by this general word, they being all obferved at let times andplaces. And for this reafon the word is ufed for thegrave. So in the 3oth of this book of job,verfe 23. which we tranflate thus , The 'waft appointedfor all living ; Beth.ani,gnedy there is a time when , and a place appointed where all that live than be laid down when they dye, or where their bodies (hall be hoofed after they are diffolved ; therefore it is called, The houfe ofappointment,the houfe which the Lord hathCeded both for time and place where it (hall be made, and whenwe than be carried to it.Noman goes to his grave by accident ; the Lord hath appoint ed man his place, and bounded his habitation, when he is dead,as well as while he lived. Again, For a clearer underftanding of this, it may have an allu- fion to that courfe which is obferved in Courts of fu¡tice, where, wheneitherflaintiffor defendant wants counfell to plead for him, Pratordieere the Court affigns counfell ; and.itlisobferved by the learned, that fslebat,Si'ad -! among the Komans,the Pretor would fay, What, is there none to +'ocatumnon lead or him ? l will appoint one to tae bis caufe into con ideratiort h`'beyegoda p pP . t" f' and topleadfor him. It is ordinary with our Judges to appoint bo. counfell, as alto time and place, when and where to hear caufes.. The words mayhave an allufion to this courfeof Judges,IfI come tofudgement,who wilt aflign me counfell ? where than I get any one toplead this caufe, and to fiend up tor me against the Lord ? There
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