33+ Ohal>: g. An EY»fiiciz upon the Book of J O B. verf.í5. r. 2. .m T ile fìmilitudh ofa<'Ship. s, i ¿Eagk. As in the feventh.Chapter he aired threeEmil itLicks, vio, f.. A weaversLhuttle. ) of,The winde. 3. j A diíï'olving cloud. üohdrehr.bringeth in three more toclear the fame point. -arloieSthoughts trave1'd thotow:- allpartsofthe -world to find otatrilict'trations oft-nails frailty. In.tilde twoverfes three of the four elements are enquiredinto,The Earth,The Air, and the Wa- ter. A Poll upon the Earth, A Ship upon the Water, an Eagle in 'theAir, arc called inas witneffes to this truth. Noty my (layerare fvifrer then a Poft, &c. Nov t my dayes ; ]That is, my profperous dayes, fo Mr, Brough- ton gloIlls. Troublefomc times are all night and darknefs: yet wemay take it of dayes in generali , they are fwifter then a `1`7p The word which we tranflate frvifter, fignifies any thing that is Levitz et ve- light, becaufe light,thingc are quick in motion. We call a man le itas, tVrti ex that isfirift offoot, light offoot. And here it is joynedwith that, tiræco qua' which among men is molt fwift and allu a Pot who rides or Aebrao ëtiam g p g. toxins pro ea- runs without any flop or flay, without the leafs confiderable flop dem accipiun- or flay.: So that it is grown intoa proverb : To rien poft, or, To MY. ridepoft, is as much as to be imhaft : To fay, Tou.are in.poft-hate, Levis minces is to fay, you are in great hafte. My ¿ayes (faith job) arefivift_ celeriterfub. er then a pelt, they out -run thofe curreers Pent out upon the . veniate. tiaoit important meffages. The poft whether fent to carry news, " good or bad, or intelligence for the difpatch of bufinefs, publick Curfor ex or private, isengaged to ride hard he tnuft not.fpare horfe-flefii sans urbe in al s reram, &c. or (as we commonly fpeak) Puffer the gràfs to grog"under hi0- profe;fcitur1, h&rlee-{reels. ET01ce obferve, cuml;teris out Fir-ít, Time w veryfi'ift,'tis gonefatddenly. Nanette. iiy dayes arefvifter then a poll-. We feldorneconfider, or cotn- fiuer as wv oAlkt4.4is common truth. We.live, for themolt part, as ifwe couldnot tell how toget rid ofóur time ; or, as if we were weary of our time, and knew not how to fpend it out, as if ttije vere rather chained to aftandingpoft, then were like a run- ning Poff.
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