Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v5

25o Chap.i6. AnExpefrtion upon the Book of 1013; Verç7. theyhave more patience in doing, fo in fuffexing yet even. their patience doth not alwayes hold out;they, as Job, (peak fometimes mournfully and complainingly : but now, he hash made us weary. Thou haft made defolate all my company. od loQuir 0 It was he in the fiat claufe, thou in the fecond ; he and thou aunt to jeeunda arc the fame p erfon in o)'s Grammar, as w astoucht before. none intertia erfona nihil in fententia moral Thouhaft made (defolate ) td quad adno dam frequent The word Shamam, lignifies to wafie,and deflroy,and that Pine Scriptura not by an ordinary dettruc` ion but fo to detiro as works Pined . y Y , Y =VD the beholders into amazement and wonder : This word fig - iia(iorilea de- nifies both to wonder and to dettroy ; becaufe great deítru. jolari, ita ut vidert:so&flu- ¿bons caufe wonder. pefrart& h rte Thou haft made defolate all mycompany;Thou haft made fuah aeanr. a defolation among them , that all who are above me lift up their hands (as we fay) and blefs themfelves, admiring to fe, this day.God brought fuch a defolation uponJerufalem, as fed the World a wondering (Lam. 4.12.) the Kings ofthe Earth, and all the Inhabitants of the World would not have beleived, that the Adverfaryand the Enemyffaooeldnot have entredinto the. Gates of, ferufalam : Chrift will comerat laff with fuch mercies) to beglorified in his Saints, as will caufe him to be admired in all them that believe (The.' : lo.) He now comes fometimes with fuch aff i ions to his Saints,as eafily caufe them who be; lieve much more ehofe who believe not to admi're.Thouhaft wonderfully defòlated, or wafted, All my company. "'limy (company) The word which we tranllate Company, is rendred, the joynts or members ofthe body,by the vulgar La- iiáiinnihilum tine, thou haft reduced all my members to nothing; As if he had own touilur faid,Thou haft loofned the whole compages, or lirut lure of ei.?olg, my bones or body, thou haft untyed, or cut afunder all the ligaments that held me together. This tranllation is but an allufion; becaufe the members of the natural body are like company of men joyned together in a civil or fpiritual bo- dy, which is therefore commonly called a Corporation.Some contend much lot thisfence,tbouhaft made defolate all the mema bers 9

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