A/ 610 Chap: 2:t. m,r,ln Eapofit;ote aspon-th.e á3rzokof jp.á. yer9. not;therefore mark rne,andbe effonifhed.You f?tould have trem- bled in fi.iencei aohearehow God hatíbdealt witch me, whereas you haverather.inf.:lted over me ; 1MMlark me and beof orifhcd, layyour handuponyour mouth. Thus I have opened the fcope, and parts ofElie wholeChapter ; as aifo the tendency of thefe fix verfes; Which s Kaye laid together as making up the preface of his anfwer. Wherein wemay note , Firft, his expectationof attention upon foure grounds, and their reprehenfon upon three. Heart diligently may;[perch and let this be your con/olation. Thus he begins,this is his fire argument to move attention,and . it maybe framed thus: 2'e ought to heart hisrt, whomyour very hearing will be a confo- lationto : Bat ifyegive me a diligent hearing,it wit bea confolatiion to me.. Therefore ye euóht to' hear we diligently. There are two things uponwhich this argument may be inforced. Firft , From the common dutie of thatrelation in which they flood to him : they told him they were his friends, now the common dutie of a friend, coming to a friend in trouble, is, to comfort and counfell him. Ye fay ye are my friends :'now if your diligent attentionwill be my confolation, yeought to heare me, confideringyour relation, and that ye beare your (elves in prof;fiion as my friends. Secondly, There is another argument which lies clofely preit in this, from the defigneof their coming to him yonr relation as friends obligos you to comfort me. But doe ye not remember your own rand tome ? doe ye not know why ye came this long ¡A:key to vifiteme ? did ye not fez this downe in your propofals ( Chap. a. rr.) That ye would come to mourne with era, and to comfort not ? Now for as much as your fpeciall ayme was to comfort me,and PeeingI fhan take it ts3cgs dw: as a fpeciall comfort to be heard, } e ought to give me the heam a.cza Si pt, ring, for that reacheth your own defigne, and anfwers your Non leviiè f d intendment in vifitingme. found as to d7 date operant Heart diligently my s6etch. fedutasn ut =n TheOriginal i eaks double hearing /mare, a frequent Ike; Pellig?tst. g P ' o Mere, braifine. The Septuagint render it, Heareye, heareye ; fo that here,
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