c Or, O »w:'! dr, Another Similicude for the more lively De-,, Or »5- ſcriprion of the fame thing. Neither need we be tollicirous abour Y the variety or extravagancies of ConjeCtures about this Beaſt. You may emſu!t as before. It is faid ro be wild and untamed, as being uſed ro the Wilderneſs doth alto imply ; and as to ſatisfying irs Luſt, much of the nature of the other, d This ſwufirg propers ly appertains to the Senſe of Smellinsg, by which certain Crea- rures, by a natural Sagacity, find our what they muſs ; which Huntſmen expreſs by a proper Term of wining, or having in the Wind : and thus itis underſtood here ; For this Creature, by che Wind, {mells afar off, which way her Male is ; for there 1s another Sente of ſunffing up the Wind, viz tor the ſervice of health, as allaying inward heat and droughr, &>c. chap. 14.6. e As her Delire, or luſt ſerves, when itruns out afrer the Mile: implying alſo, that no choice, or judginent, or meaſure 15 obſerved in theie Beaſts, when carried our after their Luſts, , 4. e. When ſhe is ſer upon 1t and hath an occaſion, and opportunity to ran impetuoul- ly to her Male for the ſatisfying her Pleaſure, the bears dowa all oppoſition before her ; there 1s none can ſtop, or put a Bridle uy- on her raging Luft. gz, z.e. Eirher they need nor weary them- ſelves ; (tpeaking of Zern/alem, to which all the re{t allo is to be applied as in an egory).they, that have a mind to be filthy with her, may ealily trace her, verſe 23. ſhe refuſes none. Or rather, they will not beſtow their Labour in vain, when ſhe is hor up- her Luſt, but ler her take her Courſe, until the be ſatisfied, and wait their time and opportunity ; and this agrees with the next Words. hIfthis relate rothe former Senſe of not wearying themſelves, it notes her Impudence and Unſattableneſs, you may have her at any time, even in her Months, or New Moons, a Seaſon wherein ſuch Ads are abhorrent even to Nature ir (el, Some underſtand this of the Idolatry they commirred every New Moon : But it more properly points at the Month of her Breed- ng, or growing big, and weighty : Month put colleCtively for Months, tuch as Feb ſpeaks of, Job 39. 1, 2, Or, in her laſt Month, becauſe they grow then unweildy. That this Creature one Mont! in the Year, and that is che Month the may be raken, is general- ly deemed but a Fancy. The Senſe of the Verſe is, That tho" Jeruſalem be now madly bent upon going after her Idols, and 0- ther unclean Courſes, that there is no ſtopping or controlling of lier, as in the next Verſe, and werſe 31. chap. 22, 21. yer the time may cume in their Afffictions, - that they may grow more tame and willing to receive Counſel, as verſe 27. and Hoſ F, 15+
25 Withold thy foot from being unſhod 5, and thy throat from thir{t : but thou faidſt,]| There is nohope &. y o:; :, No, for I have loved ſtrangers /, and after them will ] rh: ca/: g0 7, aclner ates ; Good Counſel given them by the Propher ro tarry at home; either that do not go a gadding after. their ſpirirual or corporal Adulteries, or ſeek foreign Aids, thereby to wear out their Shooes :
A Me!oymy of the Effeti, Joſh. 9, 13. Or, that thou pur not off thy Shooes to go into the Bed of Luſt; or, uncover nor thy Feet ; a modeſt Hebrew Expreſſion, as alio of orher Languages, for expo- ſing thy Nakeaneſs, Exek. 16. 25. Or , take nor rhoſe Courlts that will reduce thee ro Poverty to go barefoot, and bare-Jegged, and to want wherewith to quench thy thirſt, as inthe nexr Clauſe, Prov. 6.26 Ija. 20. 2. 4. Sex Iſa. 5.13. k She ſe:ms tro return 2 croſs Anſwer, the Word pointing at ſomewher tha is deſperare, Eccl. 2, 20. it either expretierh the deſperatenets of their Conditi- on, 9. d. Weare as bad as we can be, and there is no hope thar Cod ſhould recieve us into favour ; or ele by way of interroga- tion : Is there no hope ? May we not hold on fill, and provier 3 Muſt we deſiſt from our ways ? No, we will not; bur we will goafrer other Gods, and they ſhall detend us, 4/a. 57. 10. ind chap. 18.12. Or the defperareneſis of their Reſolution upon ar, i9. 4. Wecare not lince there 1s no Remedy : you {ole your labour ! ro go about to recl:;m us; which agrees with the next Clauſe, { Viz. Idols, or ſtrange Gods. m Come what will of it.
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