Chap.! 5. An Exliof tion upon the Book of J ßB. Verf.2. read Exod 14. 21. that when God divided the Sea, to Foes Buren make a paifige for his people, he caufed an Eafi wind to blow c+pp ..mr rru- all night, an l-divided the Sea with the force of it. Poets duo,anrraofnm, defcribe the Earl wind to be fierce, heady, turbulent, and im- tunidum 6. perilous, that's one ground of it. t 131 . Secondly, The Eatt wind is obferved by Naturalifls to be a hot and fiery wind : Hence the Vulgar Tranilates, Thou ifrdere. filleJ1 thy belly with heat : The Eat' wind parcheth and biaf- eth Corn and Fruits. Pharaoh beheld in his. Dream (even ears withered, thin, and bladed with the Eaf wind (Genet. fùbcalydi' l 41; 23.) So then, under this notion of the Ea(' wind, Eli. afluantit aerit phaz clofely cenfures ; firf, that his thoughts were vio- frma" lent and impetuous ; fecondly, that they wereangry,fiery,fu- z'xaf¡iorator & rious; as it coals were kindled in his bofom, and a flame excandefcentia ready to blaze at his lips : As if like Paul, while Saul (All .r ¡t unas defcri- 9. 1.) he breathed out thecataings and/laughteer, or was inward- ly heated with refolutions of revenge. The Prophet Jeremy faith, The Ward ofGod was as afire in hisbefom, and he could rot refrain.: Many a mans breatt is like a heated oven, he is ready to confume all with the breath Of it. !oloateribu,t But why Both Eliphaz charge jobwith fuck` unruly per, fe vannreiratentia ramin m- turbations? Sonic affr$n the reafon from thole words, Chap. peflarem m of 14. v. 14: where he defires that Godwouldeven hide him in the f flu, i,nbecil. grave,' he was fo vest and troubled at the fate whereinhe li- liratenr in or- ved that hepreferred death before ir, and thought a not be 8 r.tufitper- ing in the World, better than a being in $ in his condition: But 2erbà. Goc. we may rather leave the reafon more at large, to all that ve- hemency of fpirit,with which job had profecuted and pleaded his forrowful cafe. From the fcope of Eliphaz in this part of his reproof, we may obferve Firtl, That violent pafons are the difguife ofa wife man. We cannot fee who he is, while he aé}s unlike himfelf : anger lodgeth in the bofom of fools ; and when it doth but intrude into the bofom of a wife man, he (for the time) looks like a fool. Secondly, Paffions in the mindare like a tempeft in the ayr, they diflurb othersmuch,but our [eelvesmore; Many a man (like a fhip at Sea) bath been overfet and funck with the violent gufts and whirlwinds of his own fpirit. °bferve
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