6.z8 chap, 24. As Expofstiota upen the Eookof JOB. Verí; t 9. Somuch of that trar.ílatioa ; I come now to confider our owne, 91 Drought and ;mate ecnfume thefro*, waters.:. ÿ¡g? ficcire/ proprié aríd,ta- Dronght or drinefàe ; The wordnotesthe drineffeof the earth, tern terre f`gni- and is often put for dry earth, as alto for earth undreft, or for a /cat, und' p =o defert place,becaufe in Inch places the earth is ufually parcht with ÿMx'tafamitertr. terra a-idu mate and over-dry. And hence the word (Tfijm) in the plurall number lignifies a people that dwell in a wtlderneffe , or in a de- fer[. So thepeople of Ifrael were called whip they marched [low- ly through it to Canaan (P`Iai 74. 14. ) Murbrakefi the -head yt7 nut? of the Leviathan, andgaveft him to be meare for the people, who papu(o fó{itud - dwe1 io t`ai Psilderne/ì.And as men,fo thole wild beafts that dwelt motif, aotde i.; deferes, or folitary places are called TN*, ; ( Tfa. 34. x4.)The íerta incotenri, mild beafcs of the eiefereJholl alfo meet with the wild beafts of the land,and the Satyr /hall cry to kisfellow,tbe ShriehOwie alío(hall rift there,and findefer him%Ifea place ofreg. Tftiim are filch un- coutà creatures as inhabit Tfijah, dry and defers places. Drought . eA?ndheat,. a ocri eham the original' word fignifies both to be hot, and to be "luit Hebrau blacke The fecond bonne of Noah, (who mocked his father ) Cho,: was named Chats' and it is fuppofed that the pofterity of Cham arttbamnigrunt, Pp p .bnnar,hinc ctrl int?abited Africa, which is alío called .tímmonia, being a hot mi noten a ca-Country, and the people of it blacke. And from this Hebrew lore Ve! nit"' word (it is conceived) theHeathens allo called the Sun 7upiter time. Hammon ; and they hadSun. Images calledChattsmarAin (Levit. 7iepiter 26.3o )which they worfinippe4. Hammon. `.Droughtand beate conform the [now water. The word (as manyother in theHebrew) path a neerneffeof found as well as in fence with our Englifh word gutll, and we fay ofGreat drinkers. They are Guzzlers. The dry earth and beate gnfell or drinke in the fnow water, as the intemperate per. fonguffels and drinks downhis liquor. Thus, draught and /mate confume the [now water, that is the snow when melted into water,.
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