220 Chap. 22. An Fx,o,fition up n the BookofJ O B. Verf. 22.. the Late at a price, buy it, and keepe.it ; not that the Lord.doth expe& any price,from us, or that we can bring any thing to him valuable for it. We buy it, when we take paines for it, whenwe doe our utmost endeavour to ïeceive t he truth, when we receive the truth, not onety as it is offered andbrought home to us but when we goe out for it, and lecke after it in all the meares which God bath appointedas conveyances ofit, that'sbuying the Law of truths Receive the Lass. min a .ra Again, We may profitably confider a double derivation off, at-e iíí'1 that word which we tranflate, Law. Some fay it is from a route, explor are áúc that fi nfres to beholdsr C ntem late to Confider, to Tooke about lujfrané and theLaw is. well expreft by awordofchat fence, because the. teeuniteda eq wh'ole;Law is diligently tobe obierved and corfidered, looked . deligentérobfe, into, and meditated upon, we are alwayes to behold it, and that vánaa, nequu in every part. For the wholeL'aw iscopulative, and be that of- in:sino oDfentar. fends in one part offends inall. David fpeaking ofthe righteous. man, (Pfal. 3. z.) faith, hemeditates in the law cf the Lordday and night. What's-meditation? but the Inward view of a thing, or the beholding it with 2.n Intelleäuall eye meditation is the ipntinuall turning of things over in the minde, to behold theex A14dice 1-711 ceilencies and perfedions thatare in.them. quad efi ptune Secondly, Say others, it proceeds from another radical! word, ierigare ; Purithat figr;iftes to ra=n, and that not only,fome fmall drifsling dew- ing raine, but full showers, or as we fay to powredowne; and in fere idem eit the Hebrew,, the fame word fignifies,tó rain, and to teach. becaufe eomcn, pluvsx teaching b the is.lihe raining, the fending downe of IDóftoris & i áÿ, !eiiilsroris.l raine. The Apollle (Heb. 6.7.) alludes to ir. For the earth which drinketb in the raine that comets oft upon it. &c. by the earth he meanesthofe who heare the word or do&rive, which comes down upon them like rain to foften their hearts, and make them fruitful!. There are twoother Texts of Scripture very (liftable to this Expofition (Efay 30.20.) Though the Lrrd give you the breadofadversity, andthe water ofoflitlion, yet ¡hall not thy tea- chers be removed into Cornersark more, but thineeye Jhall fee thy t=e.ochers. Thy teachers ¡hall not be removed, fo_we rr;nder.but stri- N2,2,rtongabir dly from the letter oftheHebrew we may read it thus : Though art, pavan.. the Lordgive thee:he breadof adverfitie,&tç.jetJhallnot thy rain w_ _ be..
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