Chap. 26. An ixpoftion'opon the Book, of J014. Very. 5 74t 'Dead thing: are formed from under ties waters: 7obt firfi inflame concerning the power ofGod,is about things under the waters ; Dead, livelrffe, inanimate things are formed there ; Properly that onely is a dead thingwhich bath fometime lived, we cannot fay a fione is a dead thing, becaufe it never had any life, neither can we fay that water or earth are dead things, for they never had any life but chofe things that have had life, whether vegetative, or fenfitive, or rational, as man,orbeafts,or plants, when once that life is withdrawne from anyofthem,that is properly called a dead thing. Yet in a general vulgar and im- proper fence,even thole things that never had life may be called dead. Mr. Broughton renders Aridly, net dead things, but things without life are formed under the waters. The Hebrewward may come from a twofold route, and fo ttt-1Mefferd bath a twofold fignifieation.Firli, to heals and csre;and in Scrip- mtttgavis,f ana. turn it is transferred from the healingof the body to the healing P«, ttrmn fnor of the foul in the recniffionof fines becaufe as the wound ofthe acorpere ai - body is healed by the falve, fo is the foules wound,nasiely finne, air- at fgi healed by remiffion or forgiveneffe.The word is ufed in this fence remitters pee. (Ifa. 6. to.) Make theheart of this people far, and steaks. their Cato. tares heavy, and 'but their eyes ; lrff theyfee with theireyes, and Beare with their eeres,and underffand with their heart,andconvert, psi deiitïs and be healed, that is, pardoned. Secondly, it lignifiesto bedifiol. igotaeu, last's ved or loofened, to be weak and languifbing ; we eradiate it t,,,gttrdxt. dead, becaufe things that are dead are weakned and diffolved,and therefore death is called a díffolution ; As Paul Paid (Phil.1.23.) I elefre to depart or to be diffolved, that is, to dye ; and the fame phrafe is ufed for death ( 2 Cor; 5. 1.) We know that when the earthly hanfe ofthis tabernacle 'hall be diffolved&c.Againe,by the figure Antiphrafis (frequent in Scripture) this word as it fgni fies dead and weak things, io all() firong and lively things,yea thofc that are ftrongeft or snoft lively, cad therefore Giants who are the f rongefi ofmen, are expreffed by this word (Deut. 2. i e.) The Enims dwelt therein in times paf,a peoplegreat andmany and tad, at the Anakient, which elfo were accounted giants, &c. And the Vulgar tranflatos fo here5 Behold,' 6e giants groan tender the Ecce Gigantee waters. Giantsare called Rephaieis in the Hebrew,whichword in Omani fah a- ttic roote lignifies toweaken, not from their nature, but from 4 "is° Yvlg. their
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