CEiap,i.6. An Expofition upgn. the Bock of J O 13. Verf.zg., 107 SimanMagus, Aîis 8.23. puts thefe two together,/perceive that thou art in the Gall of lattternefs : He that continues in fin, s lives in the Gall of fpiritual .bitternefs, and he whofe Gall is powredout, is in, or ready to go into the Gall of Corporal death. For as cleaving o f the reins , implycd the receiving of a deadly wound ; fowling out the Gall upon the ground , is a proverbial, (peaking prefent death. When the gall is out, the bowels areout ; the Gall is affixed to the Liver : So that, it isbas much as to fay, He kills me dead, or I am now powred out, we cannotlive; and he who is ailliaed to fuch a height ,that he cries , my gall is powred out, maywell be numbred among the dead. The reafon or original of this fpeech was this ( as I conceive j becaufe when a wild Beaft, or any other ( which are tit for mans eating) are taken and Hain, it is ufual when the bowels are pulled out, to cut off, and throw away, or powre out the Gall upon the ground, left the overflowing of it thould difrelith the neighbouring parts: So that Job in this doth only profecute the former theam- of his grievous fufferings, or that he was( as Paul fpeaks'of himr felf, 2 Cora.1S. preffed out of meafure , above flrength, in- fomuch that hedefpaired even oflife ; which he gives us yet more fully in the next Verfe. Verf, 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach , and runeth on me like a Giant. 7,1, varies into allmanner of inventions and allufions , to á`19i á(rut fet forth both the confianey and extremity of his afliiaions. p;rerupïr. As before he compared himfelf to a marl, againfi which ar- a etke voriat rows are (hot ; fo now to a Stone wall, or fortified Tower, a- arationiraodoà gaain41 which, bat ter ;ng Rams ofold, and Cannons in.latter iugubrer, ages,are ufually planted to make a breach, that the Souldiery may come up to the affault. r He breaketh me with breach upon breach. Some men are like fortified Cities, which cannot be eafily entred, yet when the Lord of Botts draws up his Armies and befiegeth them, he hath Artillery, and Amunition enough to thunder down their highefi Towers, and to make breach upon breach in their thicket walls. R Tls 2 Satan complains, 07hou
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