Chap. 3o. An Expoftioa upon the Book of J e B. Verf.25, that we méete with in the whole bookeof God. That people being tinder a fore rebuke for their difobedience, and that by an Angel of God,.or God the Angel, called in Scripture, The An- ,e1 of the Covenant Chrift Jefus, as might becleared by many ar- guments from the text,if that were my bulines here ( being I fay, under thisrebuke, they ) mourned and wept fomuch before the Lord, that the place was called Bochim or Weepers, Wee reed of the valleyof Baca, (Píal.84. 6. ) which word B'ca in the He- brew, is there rendred by tome Mulberrywets, which are molt apt to grow in dry fanny places, and fo that text* rrarlflhced by the learned. Hebricians; who polling rho', ow the vas ey of "'' Mulberry treesmake it a tvel , that ic(4ty forne) though it was Cer,q . Hïer. cum a dry place,yet they being in their ptffage to the place of Gods 4te ,,, ti e,;uo worlhíp were not dlfeouraged with the bore and drought of it, eit fie 0. but counted it as a wel ofrefrefhing waters. This is a very pious B' "` ., deter' and fpirituall fence ofthofe words in the Pfalme et the Se tua- ta 1Kádar val . P y P le rn,eiiigit, Ka :gint render, ;ls they paffa thorow thevalley ofweeping ; As ifthat )udicum /ecun- were a knownepiace where there had been much weeping, on do lcc s rlor,- where they u(éd to weepe in a holy manner before ' he Lord. then Dicñur. And one of the Ancients expounds it pa- rico lad y of that valley called Bochim before f oken of in the fecond Chapter of the Mrum a ¡Tutu P r diiLlm veri(i' Booke ofthe fudges. Yea fome criticks tell us, That the Mal- mite eff forte berry tree bath its name in the Hebrew from weeping; becaufe prcpter fxccum that fruit being full ofJuiee drops as theeyeBoth teares, But I quern irffar, la chrymæ fy+fur - need not Ray upon fuch difficult Scriptures to find out weepers fKndrt. Leigh. for fin. It was Ddvids fin,rather then his licknes, or the reeiem- Crit. Sur. ex brance ofhis fin in his ficknes, which caufed him to make bu bed Fuller; Con' tofwim all the night; and (byday) to water his couch with teares. cord. Hebt. StrangeHyperboles ofholy forrow ( Tfal.6. 6 ) And the Evan- gelift reports ofTeter, that he no fooner remembred his fin in denying his Mafter, But he prefently went otet and wept bitterly, ( Lake 2z. d2. ) Now as there is a weeping forfin, fo Secondly , There is weeping under fuffertngs; And thefe (uf- ferings are of two forts. F: sit, Our own fuffrings; when the Lord layeth heavie af- fliáions upon us, wee ought not to be as ftockes and ftonesun- fencible of his hand, but to möurne and weepe under his cha- f ifements. Ifwedoe not we defpife his chaftnings, again* which the Apofileby Scripture Authority cautions all the Eons ofGod. (Hub. X 2, 5.) Se-
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