124 Chap. 30. Aa L c' 'ïtion upon the Book., of 1 o sVerf,14.. neverfind it. For when fin bath done us all the kindnefs and good turtles it can , we in the upfhot (hall be never the better. But as we fpeake proverbially offome-men, what they get in the hundred, they looje in the¡hire ; fo we may fayof all who goe fl full wages for gaine, lookewhat they get (if they get any thing) in temporale, they looke in fpirituats and eternals, and if fo, what are they the better I ?ab having thus farte. defcribed the wicked adings of his op. pofers, proceeds to illuftrate thole stings by a double fimih- tude. Verf. 14,. They came up n me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the defolation they rolled them[elves uponmee. They came upon mee. Though theword lignifies tocome in an ordinary wayof mo- tion, as a friend cometh to his friend upon bufnes or vifitation; yet fometimes it denotes ahoftile Invafion, or an Enemy like Charge; to come upon a man as a thiefeco affault him,or (as So- lomon faith, ( though he ufeth another word ) `Poverty and want ¡hall come upon the Haggard) likean armed man, (Prov.z4.34 ) or as he defcribes the calamity ofthe wicked (Pre.t. 27.) wb% feare cometh as defadation, andwhofedefdruîdion cometh ad a whirle- wind. In this fence you are toua,derítandit here, They come upon me. not in an ordinary walkingpace or gate, but in a March, in a Charge, as Enemies; they fet, they rufh, they run in uponme. The f rnilitude which follows necefíitates this fence of the word, They came capon mee, asa wide breaking in ofwaters. As the breaking in, and as the wide breaking in, for Explicati on fake we adde of waters inour. tranllation : theHebrew is, They came upon meas a widebreach. So Mr. Broughtoa,They came as intoa broad breach ; theyaffaulted me with violence. And be- caufe the Hebrew text cloth not determine the fimilitude (as we doe inour tranflation, breakingin ofwaters) therefore there are forne other apprehenfions concerning the allufion. I !hall in- fiance in three. Firft., As an allwfzön to an Army, who when they havebuilt their
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