30$ Chapa6. An Expofrtion upon the Book of J O$. - Verf.rq: Thouhag madea hedge about me : Tab': hedge was the prote- &ion ofGod; that hedge was fo ftrong that Satan could not pull upa (lake out ofit, nor makea gap in it,til God gave him leave: But though job (as this limilitude ímplyes) were like a wall or fortefled tower, yet God had made breaches in him ; God can loon break our Etiates , our Strength, our Health, our c: omforts, our Peace, our All. And when job faith, he breaks me withBreach upon&reach 13e means a multi- tude ofbreaches made together, or continualbreaches, made one after anoth.,r : Jeremy laments, Chap. I 16: My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very 'heart, my heart makes a noife inme: Why doth he thus double upon there words ,My bowels, my bowels, my heart, my heart? The twentieth verfe gives us an account of that Dejtruelion upon deffrullion it cried, for the whole land isfpoiled : De(trudion upon deflruc`.i- on is total de(iruffion. Thus Sampfon repeats his Viffory o ver the Philitlines, Judg,15 r 6. With the Jaw -bone of an Aft heap: upon heaps; or, (as the letter of the Hebrew) an heap, two heaps ; that is, I have made a great ilaugter ; or as himfelf explains it in the dole of the verfe,l have/lain a thoufandmen. We have the Prophet Ezekiel: threat in the fame Language, Chap. 7. 26. cfifchief fhall come. upon himfelf, and rumour ,/hall be upon rumour. When the Prophet Ifaiah would con= vince the Jews bf their unteachablenefs, that whereas (as the Apoftle fpeaks,Heb. 5.. 12. Theyought to be teachers ; yet they had need to be taught the firti Principles of the Oracles of God, like little Children, who mull have the fame precepts . and lines often and often inculcated upon them, he gives it us in the form of this Text, Ifa. 28. to, For precept muff be np. en Precept, lise upon line ; that is, they mull be continually followed. with Precepts, theymuff have many, and yet they fcarce learn , or (asothers expound that place) the Prophet defcribes the fcornfulnefs of that people who jeered the Met: fengers ofGod for. their frequency in Preaching, with a ri- ming fcoff, Precept upon precept , line upon line , here a little, andthere a little; which (ingle terms the Prophets had often ufed in their Sermons. Now whichway foever we take the proper fenfe of that place ; yet the common fenfeof the words reaches this in job : forprecept upon precept, fpeaks there a multitude ofprecepts, even as here,breacls upon breach fpeaks a
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