Chap, 29, An Expofition upois the Bookof J o Verf. i,. 571 t'nerthink how Coon the fand of our glaire may be tan our, then of multiplying our layer ere the fand. Verf, r 9. (Airy root was fpread out by the water, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. In this verle, and in the next (as was Chewed) Job gives the reafon why he'was fo confident (though poffibly (as bath allo been Ihewed ) more confident then he had reafon to be) that he fhould dye in his nefl, and multiply his daycs as the Cand. And that was the conftant kindneffes with twhich God had en- compaffed and followed him all his daycs. As if he had laid, t perceive myfelt riling up and encreafing wonderfully in all manner of felicity, the bleffingof Godabiding continually uponme ; he bath blefed me in my family, be bath bleifed my fields and flacks, my baoket and myfiore, be bleffetbme in what I do, and in all that I enjoy ; therefore Iam asfair at any man living for along life, and for a life as comfortableas long. My roöt was fpread out by the water, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Job had as good ground ro think that his effatei would not on- ly abidebur flourifh, as we have to beleive that a tree will doe fo, which is rooted.neer flefant river, and whole branches are 'filled with dew every nighr. My root was fpread out by thewater. ARoot properly is the lower part of a tree, by which it is faftned in the Earth, and receives moyflure or nourt(hment from it. The root of a thing is fo much the fa(lnefs or fleadfaf{nefs of it, that to fay a thing bath no root, or. is unfieadfafl, and will en- dure buta little while, is the fame.'((A2ath. 13. i6.) Secondly, A 'root is taken forthe foundation, bafis, or lower part of aiy Thing which fuflains ir. Thus in the former Cnaprer of this .b ok (v. 9.) we read of the' roots of mountains. Thirdly, The root is put for the beginning of any thing.. Thus the Apoflle calls the love of money, th.F root of all evil( i Tim. 6. ro.) Fourthly, A Mans root is his flock or parents, from whom he fpriags, as the body or boughs of a tree doe from the root, (Ifa. 13. 3o,) D d d d 2 Filth
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