Chap. 3o. An Expf,rion upon the Book of J o B. Verf., 29. 271 one or a companion to the other? I anfwerwhen 7ck faith I am a brethez to Dragons, it notes only thus much, I amMuch at leaft iomewhat like them, or 1 am reduceot to Inch a condition providentially as they are in naturally, 1, by my afi.&ion âm rendred fì?ch as they are by their confii!utior. The word b tier is often ufed in Scripture, to note iii..reM, and no more. Thus Simeonand Levi are called brethren by their old dying td ther 7ac6b, ( Gen. 49. 5. ) Wee cr. -:not imagine that tended only to teli us that they were brethren in nature, for fo all his twelve fors were as well as they two ; but rvheAc fayd, Simeonand Levi use brethren, his meaning was thi they t.re men of a like fpirit,they are both fierce and bloody,ata-_affthk',i were to in one remarkeable at`kion,Irfirnmertr cfcruo1 - ..re-e ir, their habitations, in their anger they fl.toc a man, &c. Yea it is concei- ved that Simeon and Levi were Brethren in a worfer murder ( though a molt bleffed one in the effects and fruits ofit) then that of the Shechtmites ; For as it is 'undeniable that the P. iefts ( who wereof the tribeof Levi) were the molt cruel! enemies. that Christ had, and fought his death with greateft earneltrare ; fo (as our late learned Annotators upon the Bible have oVer- ved fome fay, 7ndas. who betrayed him, was of the tribe of Simeon. Thus thefe two tribes were Brethren in bloodflied as much-es in blood. Solomon alto gives us this notionof a Brother, ( Pro. r8. J. Hoe alf that ie fhathfull in his worke, is brother to leim that is a great wafter; that is, hce is like him, he is Inch an other, a fl athfull man is as bad as a wailful! man ; He that folds up his Armes ïn idlenes, and he that opens hishand inwafffullnes, refemble each other as to their if lie, though. they are very diffe- rent in their way ; for as oneof then gets nothing, fo the other; (perds all he gets or hah, and it is all a cafe, whether, a man.gets nothing, or fpen44:4li, for both "come to. nought. And as one defcants both wittily; and truly upon them they like Brethren beare the fame coate, The Ragged coate ofBeggary, only with this difference ; The wafter runs into Beggary. But the [luggard or he than is floacWulf fits iä1Ì, till Beggery comes upon ,him. Now in the famefence, that the floathfull man is brother to the .;-after, 74was a brother to Dragon, hee looked upon himfelfe under that prefent difpenfation, as very like them. I am a bro- ther to Dragons. The
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