404 Chap.': AnExpefitisn upon the Book of J O B: Vert.' fromman, rwhofe breath is inhis nolfrils. The breath ofman is fo ready to ceafe, that it is our wifdom to ceafe from man ;. for when breath goes,man is gone, and all goes with him, its that day his thoughts perith; and therefore job had no fowler laid, My breath is corrupt, but he adds. My dayes are extinct. xñiúm [ My dayes ] that is, The time appointed for my life, which hoc loco tepee' is meafured by dayes,my natural dayes, or by artificial dayes :. tonifiat Our dayes come and go continually, and when our tale of :itreeetinguer dayes is came and gone, our dayes are (extinîl) The word which here we tranflate extina, is found no where elfe in the Hebrew of the Old Teftament: it is rendred three wayes. Firft, Thus, my dayes are cut off, which Metaphor is often ufcd in reference to life ; our dayes are (as it were ) fo ma- xrip'ìfunr ny threads, and our life is like a piece of cloath woven toge- t then by many dayes ; when the Web, be it more or Iéfs , lon- ger or thorter, is finifhed, the thred is cut : My dayes are cut off. Secondly,,The Vulgar reads it, my dayes will be Jhortned, they (hall be put in a narrow room, into a little compendium, sreviabuntur I mall Loon be able to read over the Volume ofmy dayes,they diet rnei.Vulg are but fhort, a mear Epitome, Thirdly, We read, my dayes are extinct, or put out. Which is a Metaphor taken from fire, from a Torch, or Candle,which is the'fenfeoftheTygurine tranflation. Mydayesfail, as a candle, or as a Lamp, which, when the oyl is confumed goes out : Mr. Broughton keeps to the Metaphor ÿ3etcr neiritu offire, My dayes are quenched. There is a flame of life in the lucern body, the natural heat is preferved by the natural moyfture aenr.1nur. thefe two, Radical heat, and Radical moyffiure , work upon each other ;and as long as Radical moyflure holds out to feed the Radical heat, life holds out ; but when the heat hathonce lucked and drunk up all the moiflure (in force acute difeafes "'Ira exriegni. it drinksall at a draught) as the flame drinks up the Oyl of noquando hu, the Lamp, then we go out, or asjob (peaks here, Our dayes =or guavas in are extinct. E.xcefftve moyfture puts out the fire, and for, fuovitaconfi& want ofmo fture it oeth out. (fir mingitur. y g Hence Note. Firft,Mans lifeat afire or a Lanmp;eonfatmer itfelfcontinually.;. There
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