Chap. 29. 4v Expafation upon the Baokof Jo B. Vert. 13, 5;9 "- who are in mifery, is more then inhumanity. VVhen the Sews boated much of their facrifices, the Lord faith, to what pnrpofs to the multitude of your facrifees unto me (De a, 1 a.) while I find fo little juRice, fo few as of love and rightecufnefs' one to a- nother , and therefore he would not have them infill fo much up- on their facrifices, but (v, i-7.) Seek judgment,releive theoppreffed, judge the fatberiefs, plead for thewidow. And when they 'cryed up their failings,be tells them (Ifa. 58. 6.) Is not this theTaff which I have chafers,' to loofe the bands of wickedrefs, (that is, chofe bands with which you have wickedly Eyed your brethren CO hard b"ar- gaines or contras) to undoe the heavy burdens) by which your brethrenare like to be undone) to let theoppreffedgo free, and that ye break every yoak. This kind of mercy is better then either facrifices or fails. This is at once every Magi(lrates duty and glo- ry, as here it was Yobs ; I delivered the poor that cryed, &c. Verf. 13, The blefsìng of him that was ready toperiJh came up® on me. We have here a further defcription of the .perfons whom Job' , delivered, even fuch as were ready to perifh. They who have none to help them, are within a Rep of perifhing. Firf1,Toperifh,f}ri6t ly taken, is tobe annihilated, fo beafts perifh. Secondly, Toperifh, more largely taken, is to dye, fo the righteous perifh Ufa. 57. 1.) Thirdly, To perifh, molt largely taken, is robe in any cxtreamly bad and low condition of life. Fourthly, To perifh, taken in the 'wort fence, is to be eternally miferable, or to be wrapt up in the pains of eternal death, (J9ha a. 16. ) The perifhing here may be taken in either of the two middle fences ; Theblefsing ofhinss that Bras ready to perifh cameupon me; that is, he who was in pre- feat danger to loofe his life, or to be ruined utterly in his e(lare and caufe, had cause tobleffe me.. Men are ready to perifh four wayes;Firfl, fome by their-owsrwanrs and neceflities ; fecondly, ma- ny by the unmercifulne4e of others, who hate them, and watch- an "17th norat sr opportunity to de(lroy them. Thus the Jews- were ordered to cdefefla úuitume m make confeffion (Dent 26. And thou Íh alt fp ea k and f a y taw; incolu- fore the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready-te perifh moony Father, and rawer; rueriil he went down into Egypt, and fojourned there with a few, and be nonlAt,Cocs. Came there N,ationgreatrrsightyand populous. 7acab is called a Syrian becanfe he lived twenty - years. as a fervant-and fon in Syria with
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