:228 ,Çhap:a6. flst OcitoratT*n,üpom the 400k'af ;J=Ó. B: "'11 ::on:innore ap fVerf.4. theSoul, and we are naoft fenfible of chofe afidions which fall immediately uponthe rational Soul. -That man forgets the furrows, of his body , whore Soul is torrowful. The more inward any tilderingis,,the more grievous it is. 1 alfo 'could fp'eakits you do, ifyour Soul were in myfouls Dread, &c, Some read the words,Interrogatively , CeuldIfpeak asyou do ? Ifyour föul were inmy, fouls(lead , could I.;heap up words againftyou, and 'hake mÿ head atyou ? Mailer Broughton gives that fentë fully, Would Ifpeakasyou, if you were in my place, would I compofe bare words againftyou , andnodupon you , with my head?The meaning is a Negative,Ifyou were in myJóuls ftead I coulddo none.of thefe,things. Could ,i do them ? No (as we fay) I could asJoan eat myown ffela : ifl were,at è,aj and. )o`ù inpain, c:ntfalI deal thu.ravith'you ? 1 would ate rather than deal fo withyou. This reading is good, and hath a greater em- phafìs in it thanour bare affirmative reading, though the fence and (cope of bothbe thefame. Ifyourfoul were in myfoulsftead, Some read this Optattvefÿ', or as a willi, O that your f ul were in my fouls ftead ; and -then the latter words are taken as a.promife or profefíìon of offices of love : Fitti , Iwould heap up words foryen. the Hebrew word which we tranflate to heap,fignifies pro - perly toprepare and fit a thing , tofatbion andput it into a good frame it is not a rude , irartifrèial heaping of things together, without form or. fafhion , as the hemChaos was but 'a beautiful elegant digeflion or co:npoCure of them , in t he exadeli form and.fathión like that of the feveral, pieces of the World, corfjoyned-in that work of the fix days coati, pn : As if he had raid.,, 0 thatyour foul were a while inmy foulsftead,fee bow Imould ufeyou, bow.I would deal. withyou truly, altthe hurt Iwauld do toyou, Jbould be this , t wouldpre- pare the fofieft and the fweete(twords I couldwith all my skill & rbetorick., toeafeyourforrows ; I would fpeakmufick to your ears, and)oy -toyour hearts ; I wouldßudy and compoje, a fpeech on ur- o e to revive and raifeyour drooping, de ondin trits. ppl So alto the fecond 'bäánch maybinterpreted p , And fbake, mine
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