çhap.16. AnExpoftionupon the'BoóFtofJ=O'B. Verfii4. 309 a multitude ofbreaches, or breaches all over. And the Apo- file Paul expreffeth himfelf in this flrain, while he gives the rcafon of the recoveryçfEpapbroditus from a'dangerous lick= nefs, Phil. t.,27.' He rail- ck,( faith Paul) nigh unto 'death', but God hadmercy ón hurt -,'andnot only on him, hut on me al- fo, left ! (hould have f rrow upon forraw ; that is,tnany forrows heaped up together : So then , when Pb complains of his breaking with breach upon breach the plainmeaning is,that he had many, very many bleachês -: -His very wounds were wounded, there was nothing in him; Ivabout him to be fmit . VoolneraEpp ten, but what had been mittenalready, As if he had Paid, vulnerant,Non 1 am fu full of breaches and aftetions, that there is no whole habettnnobs. fpaceor room left for a new breach,for another afiíifion : As J'm noraplo- he that lies upon the `ground can fall no lower, fo he that is ° locum. all broken cannot be broken any more. Job had breach upon breach in his eilate, his Cattle, and goods were taken away : Jobhad breach Upon breach in his Family, moll of his Servants , and all his Children were de- firoyed: lob had breach upon breach in his body,that was fick and (oar : Job-had breach-upon breach in his credit;-he was called Hypocrite again and again: Job h1ad breach upon breach in his foul , that was filled with feattand terrour from the Lord. Hence Note. The belt Saints on earth arefubje(I, not only to-great, but va- rious troubles, to breach upon breach. God is pleated to Imite them Cundry times., anti he'fmitea them fundry ways ; 'Tis no argument that a man (hall be no more af$ieted, bccaufe he is affíif ed , or that God will not finite again, becaufe he bath fmitten already. God doth not flay his handbylooking upon the number , but upon the effe5F and fruit of our afkietions :'Every Child ofhis ,whom he Corrects , mull look for more Correc` ions , till Re- pentance bath had his perfeec work; and every Champion of his whom he tries, mutt look for more trials , till Faith and Patience have had their perfe&work. God would not give his Children fo much as oneblow, or onebreach,not fo much as a little finger of theirs fhould ake , were it not for one of there ends, and untili thefe ends be attained, they (hall have many blows and breaches, even till the whole Head be tick, and
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