Chap. 30. An Expoftion upon the Beoke of J o B. Verf. 25. 237 tare of an oath, and include a farce imprecation upon himfelfe ; in Hebroo eff As if he had fayd , if(did not weepe for bins that was in trouble, dar rennter;tia çuæ- , gfaft n: n let god require it ; let me firf f r anyevill, ifI did not grieve in a ur.nrrer;to true fence of the'evils which others fzrffered; or thus, Clod br;a zeth, re ator:o. or God zs my wit-wire,IfI bave not mourned when Ifair any morn in E'"'e'f mirery. And here we may take notice once for all, that from this c ntirl ar r t verse to the end of thenext Chapter , fob ufeth this manner of h ,.onnsf e'vi n ce- fpeech eighteene times ; joyning impregt.ons all along with his affertions,to cleareohis own innocency,and free hirnfelfe from Tygur. thofe blame. and,crimes which his fufpicious and cenforious friends had fixed upon him. Wee tranflate the wogs barely as an affirming queftion ; Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble ? That is, I did weepe for him that was in trouble, no man can upon good ground deity, or difprove what I profeffe in this matter. Did not I weepe, &C, Weeping is the effect of forrowing; or weeping is the lan- guage of forrow,'cis dropping at the eyeor flowing out in teares; and teares are as fo many reall words, whereby wee expreffe our griefe ; Teares (as it hath hied fayd ) have fometime the ¡etev'un ia- weight ofwords; They are the truett Rhetorieke of a troubled chryrne ponders foule , and have a prevailing winning [suds or períwafi ve- vocis bobont. neffe in them beyond the lowdeft aAd quaintef'c Oratory both with God and Man. They fay mope, i,,ho faynothing but teares. ?au was iño dry forrow, his compaffionate bowels melted and diffolved into floods of teares, when he law others ready to be '° (wallowed up in the floods offorrow. Did not I weepi ? &c. Weeping is of two forts in Scripture; 1 irf , For finne, hence the teares ofrepentance ; and in this fence,from the word here tared, That place, where the Ifraelites are deferibed in a folemne worke of repentance, had its name, ( ?udg. 2. 1, 4, 5. ) aAs Angel ofthe Lord came usfromGi/hal, toBtchirse, and laid, Imade you togoeup out ofEgypt, &c. And it came to poffe when the Angel of the Lord, fpake there words untoall the=childrenofIfrael, that thepeople life up their voyce and wept, and they called the name of the place Bschim, (thatis, weepers, ) and they facrifced there unto the Lord. This was a publicke weep- ing, and one of the molt folemñe exercifes of repenting forrow, that
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