Chap. 29. - yQs Bxpofstian upon tbc Book Jo B. Verf. 6. 463 given to pleafares, that dwellefl codedy, that fayefi in thineheart, 1 am, and none elfe bijudes nu;.1 (hall notfit as a widdow,neither (hall 1 know the life of children: But thefts two thingsfhallcome upon thee in a moment, in one day, the Ile of children and widdowbood. The left and wor ft plague upon Egypt was the deathof the fir(1 born, thismade the great cry (Exod, 12. 29, 30.) The great forrowof the Yews in their conversion is thus fat forth (Zech. 12. io.) They (hall be in bitternefs for him, as one that to in bitternefsfor his firfi born. Verf.?6. ¡Vben I»afhed my/leps withbutter, and the Rockpou' redme out rivers ofoyl. This verfe is anby perbolical defcription of the 'affluence and aboundance of fobs former flourifhing elate. I walked myfleps with butter. Some expound thefe words as an allufion to banquets in old In hoefententie time, at which they ufed anointings, . and in hot Countries to indicotur prßi_ wadi anointrheir feet. But we never read of anointing with ns unguendipo. butter , nor can that be a commodious interpretation here. ass in convii® Butter is properly a part of our food ; and though butter is often": ftietuo, used in medicinal anointing, yet not at all in mcer convivial or Paned. picafureable anointings. And therefore, I conceive, this form of fpeech fignifes no more then bath been intimated, ,chats fobwas a. man flowing,even over- flowing with an increafe of the bleflings and good things of this life. fob was rich in Cartel, (and in them the riches of thole times did chiefly confia) he had fuch flore of butter that he could wath his flaps with it. The fleps of God (as the Pfalmìft fpeakt) dropt him fo much f atnefs, that his fleps dropt it too. He had fuchplenty of oyl, as if the Rocks had pou- red it out to him. Here are two great and rich commodities, and both in greatquantities. Butter is themolt precious increafe of Cattle ; yields cream ,that's the bell of the milk; and cream yields butter, that's the bell of cream.The Clive-tree isnumbred among the befl of trees ; and oyl is the bet}, the farnefs of the Olive-tree. 'n s=nnuage like : his, dying facob bleffed thekingly Tribeof }urlah (which Though force departing horn the plain import of the words, expound them Allego4ically, asa propheee of the power of Chrif+) binding both Jews and' Gentiles by the porter
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