374 Chap.3 is An Expofitios upon t Let mee [ewe. Wee may confider lowing Firft, Properly what Inch lowing is all know,'tis the husband: mars worke to call the feed into the earth in hopeof a harveft. Secondly, If we confider lowing improperly or metaphori: ,cally, Then any kind ofworke or labour may be called lowing. TheApoftle fpeakes fo c all our workes ( Gal.6.7, }Re not de- ceived, God is not mocked, forwbatfoever a manfowetb that Jhall be alfo reape ; that is, whatfoever a mans worke is , his reward or the íflite will be like it. Our actions are as feed fowen in the ground, and our harveft will be finable to our feedtime. Wee may expound lowing in this text,either properly or improperly ; let me till my land & low it, or let me labour inany kind, and let others take the profit of it, Ifany blot bath cleaved to my bands s Let mee few emend let another eate. This a&ti ofeating may alto beunderftood, firft,ftrietly for the receiving offood into the body, to nourifb, ftrengthen and corn- fort it.Secondly,eating may be taken in a large fence for any kind of injoyment, let another ente , that is, let him receive the benefit, let him have the comfort ofmy labours, And let my offfpring be rooted out. Di 'iti; tag' Theword off fpring may alto be taken two wayes: Germiaci Firft Properly according to the letter ofthe Hebrew; Arid exijr. fo it lignifies a plant, or the branch ofa tree ; As ifYob had fayd, Paxir mihi j- let my orchardsand plantations be rootedout. And then as in the )`'crr Jude; ur former partof the verfe he imprecated wrath upon his labours in exrranei fari, (owinghis land with corne fo in this latter he imprecates ver.: melo vefcanrur, glance upon his labour in planting groves,orchards and gardens. er q"ar "nq; mí' Let what I have fowne be eaten by others, and let what I have hi ßar Winans planted be rooted up. Let men f o le all my labour, let what I rzdscnkr ter- P P ! Y Y danrur. Bea, have done eyther for profit or for pleafure, come to nought. .Quamvif a!ías Some infift muchupon this tranflation and expofition, becaule it in Inc l bro lutes belt (as they conceive) with the former part ofthe verfe. ©, -ryceY;Fo Secondly Theword is taken improperly and metaphorically rich liberi inset. in Scripture,for Children,who are as 'Profits a_ nd branches grow. liganaxrafzre. ing Book of J o B. Verf.S,
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