300 Chap.i6. AnExpofïtion upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. creature ; Loe his firengtb is in bis loyner, faith God of Be- Plumbers hemoth, which is as Come think the Elephant (70b 4o. z6 ). redden. and a man ofuo loyrtes,is a man of it) jtceag th,ia common lan- e g Thirdly, To cleave the reynes, is to give a mortal wound. Chyrurgions and Phyfitians obferve, That if thereynes be- Male immedi pruck through, there is no help for it'; cleaving the reynes c:rbilta indicu is much like piercing the heart; that is prefent death, and' that leaves no hope of life, the wound of it is incurable. There is a fourth interpretation, He cleavetb my reyns may note the torture of any accute difeafe, efpecially that of the Stone in the reynes, or kidneys; which is as it were thecutting ofthe back afunder , poor Patients under it are often heard lö complaining : O 'tis like a (harp knife ; < the Stone is not only a grinding bat a cutting pain. I'fhallonly lay in the confideration of there four gloffes from the littoral lenfe oftheword, to afurther making out of the fir(( generalObfervation,That God often deals vet)/ le- vcrely in outward,orprefent difpenfations, with many of his deareft Servants : He doth that which they may call cleaving of the reines,and that in the eafieti ofthe four fentes,is a very revere difpenfarion ; much more ( which we may fuppofe ) when the pain of all four meets in one man ; as donkbtlefs they did in Lb ; cleaveth my reiner afunder. Anddoeh not fpare. He that Both not fpare ufeth the utmofì extremity ° and Ferepit gno. tb ws nopity or indulgence :to fpare,is both anaû, and one tat,pnlitiur °f the kinds of mercy: Sparing is oppofed to feverity, it is a futt. doing Icfsagainfi another then we may,and that two wayes. TtsUam D0,70 Fail, When we do lets thenwe can_ Wè having power, nt `nme mile th . h no right to do more then wedo, no nor to do fó etcrdine,fed much ás we do . Thus a Thief-May$e laid to f areaman; umnrgananfs. p. vaiara eve. when he loth not take all from him;life and all, r`ar, Mere. Secondly, Whenwe do Fels againti-a tother then we may, both according to the right '°four'caufe, and the power in our hands : Thus a Magifirate (pares a Thief; or a Creditor his Debtor; when the one exacts not the whole punifhir ent nor theother the whole Summ due. Andin this fence God fpa,
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