t ·8o The Nece.ffity and ..~1dvanlag't! things for meat' to relieve t.hdr foul; , the children and fucklings did fwoor_1 in the t1reets, their foul ,was poured out -into their inother'sbofo1n; the women did eat their fruit, their children of a fpan long. And the Prophet had a 1arge.fhare in thefe ea- . !amities, both by his own interdt, and his ·cmnpaffion towards his ne'ighbour: I dm th'e man (faith he) ·that bath )een ajfliBion by the rod of his wrath. Surely agai11fl me is he turned: he turneth his himd agairu1 me all the day. - · But after he 'had tl1us betnoaned him_. _ fel~ and given fon1e vent to his paffion and forrow, he puts a fl:op to the current that was grown too impetuous,. ~ and turns his · thoughts another way. H~acknowledgeth the jtifl:ice of God1 s difpenfaiions; and .that it was a favour they fuffered no more : This I recal in-to my mind, therefore have I : hope. It is the Lord's mercies th(lt we· are not con{umed, becaufe his compaJ!ions fail ·not. They are new ·every m.ornif~J;· Na-y, 'vhen he had further pondered the n1atter, he finds hin1felf indebted to the goodn_efs ·of God, even for the affliCtions he endured 'I_t is good for a man, &c. The bearing of the yoke is an eafy .and - obvious n1etaphor, hnporting the refiraint , , of
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