3z2 Chap. 19. AnExpofrtioit upon t;e Boat of.IOB. Veil: 23. But 7o6 would have his words not onely written but Prin- ted, O that they were printed, printed in a Bootle. The word i 1 ad ea which we tran{tate printed, lignifies, firíl, Limply to Let downe, per "net qua or defcribe a thing Hiítorically, or by way of narration : Se- "` Tara erf C,i condi It ,Lignifies authoritatively to fet downe a thing as a Y. bntur ad pub- Law, as a Statute, by way of determination. The word is fre- licam memori- quently ufed in the Old Telament, to expreffe thole Lawes am, ca¡ufnod: Ordinances and Statutes which the Lord prefcribed unto his j.er 3 ego:. eo le ; And fo this word f eaks more then the former; Lyra, loges. p P p Lawes and refolutions of State are more frongly confirmed and more carefully preferved, then bareNarrations are. O that they wereprinted in a Book. That is, that my words were written as publique Statutes, Ordinances, and Lawes, with a Ramp ofauthoritie upon them, that they may be preferved as the monuments of a Common- wealth, and the Records ofa Court are (Ifa. co. a.) Woe to them that decree unrighteoou decrees. Theword that we tranflate to print, is there rendred to decree. (Ifa. 3 3, 22. ) Thou are ear Law-giver, it is this word, or our Statute maker, as we put in the.Margettt. Againe, Whenhe faith ; O that my words were printed; We are not to take printing in that ítrift fenfe ufed amonglt us, jovn Gerrtu- for that new art or invention oppoled to writing. we have denberg flirt nomind believe that the art of printing was ufed in thofe inverter óf The farit time that ever it was heard of in Europe (as our y1°`1°g 1° Hittorians tell us ) was ( little more then two hundred yeares Europe. An: 1440. pal ) in the yeare one thoufand four hundred and fourty. It begun tobe pradifed (as it is raid ) at Harlem, and was per- feeied at Mentz. Here printing is taken in a large fenfe for the Pettingdowne and defcribingofany thing in the molt authen- tiRto (guafife tick and firongel manner, for the perpetuating of it. And cerrigens) non therefore allo hewould have it printed in a Bock,, not in loofe tantumicribe {Battered papers, but in a book ; for though that ufe alto of omJemun d ut raextio- binding books be not very ancient, their writing ( for the a- renter in bbro, molt part ) being inRoules or Volumes; yet thofe Roules were maws gaippe under much care and infpedion ; lb that this addition of hoc eft Qg fir' ',Arcing in book carries in it a further degree of care to mt ' preferve what .vas printed. ( gen. 5. z.) Tais it the Booh.of the gene-
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