a;b Chap. 30, An Expofition upon the Book! sf J o B. Vetf.27. Theywho have been mrft rxoft in their walkings fhould yet looke andpreparefor changes. Grace gives us a good title, the bell title to earthly things, but it doth not allure the pot<ffion of them. They who are dead to worldly enioymenrs, may yet fee them dye. And how corn - paffìonate foever any man hach been to the poore. pained and afitted, yet himlelfe may become poore, and pined, and af- slt&ed ; as 7 b fhewes us further by his owne experience and ex ample in the next verfe. Verf. 27. Lilly bowels boiledand rifled not; the dayes of af- ftftion prevented mee. From this verfe to the end ofthe Chapter, lob reckons up fe- verall fad off. &s of his afflt&ions and forrowes. UV, bowels boiled , or , were hot. welt infono- As I was full offorro,vs without, fo I was inwardly it,flamed as (rune 4e eiulti a were with furrow , His bowels were as a leeching or boyling (cunt once more pot upon the fife. The Bowels liignifie in Scripture Firft,the molt tntt:na at feeling compaßïons of the mind : Put on ( faith the Apoftle, n;err.bra to tae. Col. 3. r z. ) as the eleft of Clod, bowels ofmercy ; that is, be yee Viers. very mercifull. Secondly, The Bowels liignifie the molt leeret workings and cogitations of the mind. ( Pro. 20.27.) The fjti. rit ofman is the candle ofthe Lord, fearching all the inwardparts ( or Bowels ) of the belly that is, thole thoughts, contrivements, and conceptions which lye cloleft or molt out offight in the mind of man. And hence the boyling of the bowel.!, imports in- ward trouble, or troubled thoughts, eyther with !care or griefe or both. Thus'ris fayd of9Daniel ( Dan. 4. ro.) He was afle- nifhed for one houri, and hrs thoughts troubled him ; and fo of Belfhazzer when he faw the hand writing upon the wall ( Dan.g. 6.) bis countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him ; that is his brealt or bowelswete full of boyling cumultuatirg thoughts. Many Scriptures let out the inward Agony of the mind by fire and boyling. A man in g: eat perplexity, is as if he were in a fare, or a fire in him ; care is a fire, feare is a fire, and fo is forrow, My bowels boyled( faith lob) As the Lords anger is like a burning fire, ( Lam. 2. 3.) Hee loath cut Jfin his fierce Anger
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