29e Chap. zz. .3n Expofition upon the Bookvf JO B. Verf. 3..o. meant him. It is delivered, &c. That is, ,the Ifland is deliver'd, according to our tranflation ; how is it dciivcted ? by the purenes of thine hands. The wordnotes the moft exa& purity and clean- nea, like that ofgold when it is refined in the fire, or ofgarments moue p ir& that are waftled withSoape or Nitre ; by t hie ptrrenes it or the June opera in- .1Eland [hall be deliver 4: and by the parentsof his hands,he means +.y_ata d7 qua the purenes of his acotions or adminiftrations. The hand is the in- .rimrne "caner. fïrurnent ofa&ion, and pure or cleane hands in Scripture are put for the purity or cleanneffe ofour a &ionsor converfation.Whsle. our doings are holy,our works righteous,uff, and good, it way., be laid our hands are pure. And we may referre this efpecially to prayer; Thou (salt deliver the Iflandof the Innocent., a nd it is. delivered by the parentis of thine bands;That. is,thou'pra , it g, in the purity of thy hands, or with pure hands,fhalt deliver the ¡Hand of the innocent, or (according to that other reading)hofe that are not innocent. And then, purenes ofhands, or pure hands, are put as a fign for the thing fignifed,thc gefture,for that which is done ïn that gesture. The lifting upof bands is a gesture in prayer, and the lifting up ofpure hands,notes the purity of prayer.(i B.) Ì will that men pray every where, lifting:up holy 4r pure hands. Now becaufe'cis ufuall in prayer to lift up the handstand in pray- er nohands but mortally pure or holy hands should be liftedup (and fo theirs are inScripture fence whole lives are holy) there- fore we may well conceive,chac, whenhe faith, it ¡bd be deliver'd by the psrenes ofthy hands, his meaning is this,it (hall be delivered by holy prayer, or when thou prayeft holily,it (hall be delivered., Thus Eliphaz doth net onely promise 7ob, that himfelfin perfon should be lifted up and faved when others. are caft down,but that he fhould be a meanes of lavingand,delivering others, and chose not forne few, or all his own family, but that the whole Nation or Ifland in General! fhouldcfcape and fare the better for him. It[hall be delivered by the parentis of thy hands. Learne hence, this Great and famous Truth ;, That, a Godly Person is a Commongood.' He doth good not onely within his owne walls, or to his own perfonall relations, but he is a Common good, a publique mercy, a general Blefling, whether we Confider generali Bleflings either negatively, or affirmatively, that is, either as delivering from
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