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Certainly, if Ennius could pick out Gold out of a Dunghill, I may, by Divine Assistance, much better pick out golden matter out of such a golden Mine, as my Text is, to enrich the souls of men withal. ⟨p. 2⟩The best of Painters, ¹to draw an exquisite Venus, had set before him an hundred choice and selected beauties, to take from one an eye, another a lip, a third a smile, a fourth an hand, and from each of them that special lineament in which she most excelled: but I have no need of any other Scripture to be set before me, to draw forth the excellency of the Saints portion, than that which I have now pitched upon; for the beauty, excellency, and glory of an hundred choice Scriptures are epitomized in this one.

CErtainly, if Ennius could pick out Gold out of a Dunghil, I may, by Divine Assistance, much better pick out golden matter out of such a golden Myne, as my Text is, to enrich the souls of men withall. ⟨p. 2⟩The best of Painters, ¹to draw an exquisite Venus, had set before him an hundred choice and selected beauties, to take from one an eye, another a lip, a third a smile, a fourth an hand, and from each of them that special lineament in which she most excelled: but I have no need of any other Scripture to be set before me, to draw forth the excellency of the Saints portion, than that which I have now pitch't upon; for the beauty, excellency, and glory of an hundred choice Scriptures are epitomized in this one.

1. 1Apelles.

The Jewish Doctors, and other Writers differ about the time of Jeremiahs penning this Book of the Lamentations; but to be ignorant of the circumstance of time when this Book was made, is such a crime, as I suppose will not be charged upon any mans account in the great day of our Lord Jesus.