148 Chip. 3 e. AT Expo!ition upon the Booke of J o a. Vert.15 oreftim,te the foule as our principalone ? David prophecying, ofChrift, faith (Pfd. 22. zo.) Deliver my foulefrom the(word my darlingfrom thepower ofthe dog ! His foule was his darling; or his only one (as we put in the Margin) As lob herecalls it the prineipallcne, fo David, both there and Pfal. 35. 17 -calls it hie onlyone. Parents who have but one only child , make that their darling, and fometimes though a parent bath many chit- dren, yet he.fets his love upon one as his darling, or only one. Every manefou/e ie or ought to be hie Darling,bie choice one,hie on- ly One, for indeed he bath but One. And if a mans foule be loft, the man is loft, All is loll in that one which is his principal! One. Thal have ventured a little .difcourfe fomewhat beyond the rules ofan expoition,to improve thisufefull notion of the foule, taking my hint from the Hebrewelegancy or propriety of the0, riginal., o.bferved by our Trai.flators, rendring the fame word, foulcin the Text, and principal one in the Margin of our Bibles. Chrift. fpeakingof the Chucb,faith, (Cant.6, g.) My dove my undefiled ie beet one, fhe ie the only one,of.bermother; fhe is the choice one of her that bare her. O get your foules wafbed from their defilement, and keepe them undefiled , your foule is your choice, your choiceft one, the foule is your only ene. They parfait, myfoule (or mj principaloxe ) as the wind. V morion cete- That is, as the wind purfues the duff or.ftubble. The wind may liras innrover- be fayd to purfue under a threefold apprehenfion : Firft, with s7e `l' undo much fodainneffe, The wind blowes when and where it lifteth for all that mancan doe, or let him doe what he lift. Secondly, The wind purfues with great violence, it beares down all,or car- ries all before it. Thirdly, The wind comes fwiftly ; and there- fore hath wings afcribed to it. David faith (9Pfal. 18. to. ) The Lord rode upon a Cherub, and did flic : yea be did flicupon the eing.r ofthe wind. That is, he came, as, with irrefiftible power, nothingcould withftand him, or ftand beforehim, fo,with fullet (peed and celerity, nothingcould efcape him. So then, to purfue as the wind, is a proverbial) fpeech, importing fuddainneffe, ftrength, and fwiftneffe in coming, Thus, Terror; poised bi., foule
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