S 2,1 Chap. 2.o. An Expoftion upon the Book; of JOB. der(. 1.7. fortsof good things, both little and great together. Brookes are little rivers, and rivers are great Brookes. Floods are the inundations or fwellirgs ofboth beyond their bankes. He Jkall not fee theft rivers, floods, and brookes; ofbony and batter And who ever did fee them ? Rivers and brookes of water, as they are u`efull and dele.c`tabfe, fo every where feene. but where (ball we fee riversor brookes ofbony and butter? 'f Ilia is a high fitr:aine of Rhetoricke,notingonly(as was toucht before)greateft aboundance;yet in tome Countries there is fuch abundance ofbony and butter, that, they may be ftyd to have (almoft) in the letter, rivers and brookesof them. It is laid (a.. Sam, 14. z 5.)that when thepeople ofthe Land (in purfuit of the I'hiliiirns) came to a wood, there was bony upon theground, and (verf. 26.) the bony dropped. Here were riversof hony,flowirg bony. The land ofCanaan is often defcribed by this I5eriphra- F is, A Landflowing with mike andbony (Exod. 3. 8.17. &c.) lob, fpeakirg ofhis former flourifhing eftate, gives it in this language (Chap. 29.6.) I wafhedmyfleps withbutter, and the recke powred.nte out rivers ofoyle.They who eatbutter and bo- ny are fuppofcd by fame to have more then neceffaries(though othersexpound it for plaine Country food) even dainties to feed upon(lfa.7;2z.) Butterand bony ¡hall every one eat that is left in the Land. And this is the food which the Virgins fonne our Immanuel was prophesied to Bate at the 15 h verfe of the fame Chapter.; Butter and loony (hallhe rate, that he may know how to refufe the evil! andchoofe the ?ood. That is,that he may grow up to yearcs ofdifcretion, and fo be able to diftinguifls between that which ismorally good and morally evill. Further , Some underftand butter and bony allegarically, for fpirituall good things; The butter and bonyof the Land ofprornife were indeed fhadowes of heavenly things. And this amounts to a forer judgement upon the wicked man, whole portion how great fo ever it is in remporals, (hall be nothing in eternalls ; His whole lot falls on this fide heaven and the things ofheaven.But I rather keepeto the litterall fence,which faits clearly with the words foregoing ; He /hallfueke the poy- fon ofAfps, the Vipers tonguefballflay him ; there's an end of him ; he fhalfnot fee the rivers, &c, of bony andbutter which ?e.looked for, TAttly,
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