464 Chap. 29.. An Expofition clan the Book of J o n. Verf. 6. Power of his Grace and Spirit to the Church, The Vine, and to himfelf the choice Vine ; yet doubtlefs, the proper reading is in- tended to hold forth the outward .bletliing of that Royal Tribe, (Gen.49. i i.) Binding bis foal unto the Vins, and hoe Ales Colt unto the choice vine:be wafhed his garments in mine, and bù douche in blood ofgrapes. That is, he (hall have fomuch wine that he may feat e it for common ufe, even forthe wafhing ofhis cloathes. He fhali have wine (.ghich by a fynechdoche is put for all good things) asplcntifull as water. Alf() Canaan is defcribed (Exod.? 13. a 5.) A land flowing with milk andhoney ;as if the very springs and rivers did tun milk and bony, or as if there did flow like a rive r. So (De.t. 32. I 3.) Hemade him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the incrtafeof the field ; aia be made him f <ck, bover ont f the R ck,,a4 oyl out oftbrfi.:ty Rick.,butter of l ine,andmilk, f S:' eep,with fat of Lambs and `k.7ns ofthebreed of Bafhan, &c. (Dent. 33, 2.4.) And of jher he laid ; let A/htr be 61efed with children, let b m be acceptable to his brethren, and let ties diphù foot in on ; That is, let him have flore of oyi. In the 2o-h of fob (u. it.) we read fuo byperb lies ; He (hall net fee the Rivers, thefl,ods,tbe brooks of bony and butter. As the aboundance of and cvangettcd blcfsinga, are fhariowed (yoel 3. 18.) by the Mountains dropping down ,.ewwine, and the bills pwtngwith rtlilk ; fo by a like firein of R etorick all forts of temporalaboundaisce arc fignified. 7,6 knew the time when he wafhed -his Reps with butter : Not that he ufed butter for that purpofe, he was neither fo proud nor fo prodigal, to that, or was the thing init f&f convenient to be done ; but the mean- ing is, he had fuchplenty ofbutter, that if he had been minded, he might bave done it. And the R ck poured me out Rivers of oyl, or fat. The fame word fignifieth both, becaufe oyl is thefat of vexe; tative, as fat is theoyl of fenftive c-eatwres. fobs Otive- gr.00ds yielded him a foan'ainofoyl ; he had not only oyl in a croft, not onlyveffels or pipes, but Rivers ofoyl. The Rock poured me oat River, ofoyl. gotenus llNê Some conceive him f caking thus becaufe the fece where O optimum oteuna P a p &ben1es inlo, live-treesufe togrow is Jlony,fuch as ArabiaPetrsa,and there it is
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