Expafition upon!be .Book of J o B. Verf. 15. 535 firaces cannot doall themfelves, they mull fee many things by o- ther viens eyes, and doe midi things by other mens hands : yer a faithful Ms itfrate will not difdaine to do coites of rightee.uf- nefs in perfon for his people,yea, fo far as he is able, he delights to doe it. I was eyes to the blind,that is,[ was to the blind in(lead of eyes, or I gave them direElion as the eye'direets she body, which way togoe, and what to doe, when they knew not. The hyht--4 the bLdy te the eye (faith Cerif}, Math. 6, ze.) and he that is a trans eye, is his light in darktìes. Further, 'cis ccntiderable that the word is plural, Job doth not fay, Iwas an tye,bsst eyes to the blind, and fo not a foot, bat feet to the larme. Which may intima e both the frequent y and the fuinels of that. allifiance which he gave them. I was feet to the lame, Thatis,inflead of feet, or in the place of feet, perfo:ming that office fo; them in efrsawhich feet perform for the body. The feet are,firll, thepillars and fuprorters of the body ; upon them the body (fan?s, as a houfe upon its foundation. Secondly,. as the feet are the fupport_rs, fo the porters of the body, Thep carry the whole body, they move and remove it frog place to place. The locomotive power of the body is allied by the feet. Thus J >b was b.eth afur. p >rter and a porter to the lame and fee- ble, he bore them up and carryed them on in all their needs. I (faith he) was feet to the lame. Here a queflion muff be an- 1wered (for the clearing of the whole verfe) who are meant by the blind and ehe lame, ro whom Job was eyes and feet ? The blind and the lame may be confidered either properly, or metaphorically. The blind and the lame in proper fence are fuch as want fight, and the ufe of their leggs and limbs. Some of the Ancients underhand this text prcperiy, in this hridines of the letter ; and 'cis granted by all that a great past of the Magi firates care is to provide for the lame and the blind ; to fee that there be bofpitals and houles of receit for thepoor, who are cher blind or lame and impotent: For though not fo much the natural as the political body is the fubje& of the Magifirates care ; yet the care of the natural bodyes of men,doth red( uad to and reach the good of the body politick, or whole Common- wealtha under any Pinces Government and protesioa. Secondly,
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