G ap. 29. An Expoftticn Upan the Book of J o B: Verf,23. 599: CONS down like rain upon the mower graffe ; which many of the Ancients following the Septuagint and toe vulgar Latin traníhti- ons render, .,He Pall comadown like rain upon a fleece ofWool, alluding to the wetting of Gidcons fleece (fudg. 6. 37.) And' tis true, the Original word fignifieth :fleece of moll, as well as the mowers Grafft, yet the words following in the fame verfe(as f tow err that water the earth) Ceem rather to 1iflfie our reading, He fhall come down like rain upon the mowen Graf fc. So indeed Jefus Cbrifi came down,not only to the comforting but Caving of mil- lions of fouler, who tire had not only been parched,bu: muff have perished (though not confumed) with the fcorching fiery beams and everlafiing burnings of the wrath of God. And as robs hear- ers vvaited for him as for the rain,fomuchmore did the old be- !civets before hecame in the He(h ; and many now under le;al tutor, or the hidings of his favour, wait for hiscctt:fng in ire Spirir, as the earth in a rime of drought waiteth for the ;lain. They waitedfor me (faith Job) asfor the rain, .And they opened their mouth wide em for the latter rain. To open the mouth, is a preparatory to fpeaking ;. 'tir ofren Serino meus fo expref ed in the Gofpel,Then Jefue opened his mouthand taught tarn:erargra- er,fpake; but here opening the mouth referrs not to fpeaking, tur,quamplu- but to filent hearing, or it notes a foul defiring, hungring,thirff- viallittans ing, greedily looking for holy and wholefome counfel. As the Drufrbanh earth when it wants rain,opens it mouth, and by its clefts and Cumpier a- chaps, loth (as it were) cry to the Lord for a draught of rain viduate audio, to quench its thin{+. Thus the people came to lob with open áatolyttip, mouches, that is, enlarged defires to receive hiscounfel_; they o- Gav,funocum pened their mouchesas a hungry man for wholfome food, or as Sept. aman opens hismourh for the frefh ayr, when he is almo{l 11i- pulciaetera. fled, or over- heated. David faith (Pfal. ¡19. iv.) I opened üsfereno me. mymouth and panted, for >Ilonged for thy Comrnandemerts; his ur,chald heartdid work for life after the word of life. Further, This phrafe ofopening the mouth, in Scripture notes a readinefs to give out as well as totake in. Pau/ faith to the Co- rinthians (2 Cor. 6 t i,) Our mouth is open to you, of heart is enlarged; why was his mouth open ? not to- receive any thing from the Cceinthians, brat .to bellow fomething upon them, he was defirous to be{lofr force fpiritual gift, that they might be odic
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