Chap. 3o. An Expofitiost upon the Booke of J o a. Verf. 27. 257 Anger all the borne of !jowl, he bath drawnback bis rght hand Angoremanitrt from before the enemy, and he burned againf 7acob like a flaming btatem ex. fire which devonreth round about. Nowas the Lords anger, which primere nr . ceafeth him to bring trouble upon a peopleor a perfon is like rgnsc ardor, firefo is thatforrowwith which man is affec`ed in the day ofthe Amur,: unit Lords anger. Thus fpake 7eremie (Lam. t. 20. ) Behold O Lord, curarum olíoo for I am in difireffe, my bowels are troubled my heart is tarred drci.tur,et cotwt within mee. The heart or bowels are the feate of the ffions Z:mr l' ,cum anxijt ° And when pafiion is fo thong that it turnes the heart, and fo moleflie conos- hot that'ris fayd to make the bowels boyle,Then paßì3n is at the bafcit caris higheft ; My bowels boiled Sa"it and rafted not. The Hebrew is , Were notfilent, paine makes a noyfe, paine fpeaks lowd. (Ifa. 16. 1 I. ) L*(y bowelsfhhallfound like an harpe for Moab. And when wee are freed from paine a fweete Glance followeth. (Tfal. 107.29.) Hee maketh theforme a calme, fo that the waves thereof arefill ( or the waves thereof are filent) what a roaring noyfe is therein a proper forme at Sea ? and is there not a roaring noyfe in the metaphoricall formes of trou- ble ? or if we take the words reliednot, in their ordinary fence, then they note the unceffantneffe ofhis forrow ; That refieth, which ceafethor giveth over working; as it is fayd ( Exod. 20. II.) Infix dayes the Lordmade heavenand earth, the Sea and all that in them is, and rifled thefeventh day ; Thus ?obs bowels boy. led andrafted soot, that is, his forrow ceafed not, he had no (luci- da intervalla) comfortable lightfome inrermißìonc of or vacati- ons from his paints and griefes ; He had not fever fics,but a con- tinuall burning fever ; New fewel was dayly, yea hourely ad- ded to feed the fire and keepe his bowels bo3 ling; Noy bowels ( faith he) boyled and refed not. The dayes of afflitlion prevented mee. He `ad fayd a little before (v. 16. ) The dayes of affli£ lion have takenhold uponmee; here he faith, they have preventedmee, that is, they came fuddenly upon [nee, or unlook'd for. Some reads, they met met, fo the word is rendred in that charge again(# the Moabites and Ammonites (Deur. 23. 3, 4.) Even to their tenth generation fhall they not enter into the Congregation of the L 1 Lord
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