340 Chap. 9. An Èxpofition upon the Booltef J O B. Verr 26. An Eagle of all the fowls of the Air is the fwifteft and ffrongeft of wing:an Eagle is the chief ofbuds,We find in Scripture, fwift- nef cxpreffed by this fimilitude of an Eagle;H2b. i.$.)theChalde_ ans who invaded the people oflfrael, are thus deferibcd, Their horfa -men (hall come fromfar, they /hallflee as the Eagle that hafteth t. eat. See the like iuflances, Ter. 48. Jer. 49. Ezek. 17. And in 112.4®. 31. They(ball renew their jtrength, they [hall mF,urtt up with wings as Eagles, &c. noting the exceedingfwiftnefs of the Saints in the wayes of God, the (peed they !hall make in wayes of holi- nefs; though the youths faint, and the young men utterly fall, yet they that wait upon the Lord fhall mount upwith wings as Eagles, that is, they (hall be ;wilt and firong. But here is more expreffed then the natural fwiftnefs of the Eagle, here is form: what occalionall, which adds wings to her wings. We had four interpretations ofthe (hips fwiftnefs. Here isoneexpreffion exceeding all thofe four, An Eagle battening to prienïaera nvl- the prey. difniappetir, An Eagle is a greedy fowl. Hence that of Chrifl (Matth. 24.) ideo tern; jji- Where the carcafe id, thither the Eagles gather together;that is,look rnwoiot San. where ever there is any prey , there you fhail have Eagles: if there be a carcafe to be had, the Eagle will be fure.to make to- ward it, My dayes (faith job) ore paffed away as the Eagle harteneth to the prey. The Naturalifts obferve that the Eagle (bars aloft in the air, fo high, that theeye ofman cannot difcern her yet the Eagle is of fuck a piercing eye (Eagle-eyed is a pro- verb for quick -lighted) that the can difcern her prey upon the Tagscon fal. earth, yea in the water, and as loonas the Eagle efpies her prey, stagfed f'bli_ file pours or fowces down upon it like".a thunderbolt, like a bell- = in terrain let out of gun, or an arrow out of a bow. Thus job's laves paf jacutatur á fed as an Eagle in her flight, andnot in her ordinary flight, but as an Eaglethat bafteneth to the prey, when hunger adds fwiftnefs to her wings; fuch was the paifage ofhis dayes. There is fomewhat further obfervable in this, from the tran- flationof the Seventy who render it thus, Is there any fign or mark it theway of a(hip, or sfan Eagle So the meaning of]ob IJuguidßff should be,that his life, in refpeó of former comforts and content- stavrbars vflt_ ments, was pat} away, and had left no mark, no lign behind it. rumvt, out The flail) in the fea FAIL th away, and there is nO rode, no tra( afedir volan- left; and ;hc Eagle in the air pofEth, arid you cannot fee where ¡H I tc.$cpt. the Eagle made her ;digh%,- the dlr cloL th prefently, there is no Way
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