Chap. 2e. /InExpoftion upon the Boekof JOB. Vert 23. 2s5 This building úp, rasay betaken twowayes ; firflt, more gene- rally for an encreafe in all good things fecondly, more fpecially for anencreafe in children. In the Hebrew the farne word, which pima i"da fignifies aforme, fignìfies, tobuild,becaufe children build up their d,tf"f, grod .e- fathers houle, or are their fathers building;inchat fetafe theword is oftenufed, (Gen. 16..2. Gen. 3b. 3. Ruth 4.1x.) It is laid, am medrr _ ( Exod. i . z, . ) that goddoilt the midwives bottles ; which Tome prok'n Wit. interpret, hegave them children, or made them more fruitful; in mere. childebearing. Weread in the lawhow thatman was to be dealt witb,who refufed to take his brothers wife,according to thecomet mandement of God in thofe times, and the conclufion of all is ('Deut. 25.9.) So it /,Ball be done to thewan that (ball not build sop bù brothers houJe,that is, who refufeth to marryhis brothers w id- dow, and (through. the Welling ofGod)tohave children by her, which would be as thebuilding upof his houfe,or the Coí tinuance ofhis name and family. Thus forge underhand the phrafe here ; Thou [halt be built up, that is,thou,whohas loft all thy children, Thou, whole houfe bath been purddowne by the fall ofa hone (Ch. I. 19.) fhalt have more children, and fo thy houle built up again.But I rather take the phrafe here in that larger fence,and. fo to be built up, implyeth all kinde ofprofperity in outward things. (Mal. 3. 15.) Now ye" call theproudhappy,yea they that werke wickedneffeare fit up,we put in the Margin, are built up, that is, they are very profperous, they may have what they will in this world, or(aswe fay) the worldat will. And ( note that by the way) 'tis the worft character ofan age, when they that werke wic- kjdnrffe (which ruines the belt built State) are built up. The Lord makes a promife in the language ofthis Metaphor to the Church, (Per. 3 t . 4.) 1 will build thee, and thou¡halt be built, O virgin of Ifrael; As ifhe bad laid plainly,I will bleffe thee,and raife thee up out of the dutof thyprefent defolate condition, into a gl000us fabricke ofprofperity and honour, fo it follows in the fame text ; Thu IiaIt againe be adorned with thy tabrets, andgoo forth in the dance ofthew that makemerry. This fence of theword is cleare in that oppofitionufed in the Pfalme (Pf. z8. 5.)Thereforefaith the Lord,! mill defiroy tbee,andnot build thee up,that is,thou fhalt be def Toyedfor ever, I will never repayreany ofthy ruines,thine fhall beas Afaph fpeakes (Pfal 74. 3.) Perpetual! defolationì. So that, when Eliphat promifeth rob, Thou !halt be built up'; his H h 2 meaning
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