An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The root hath a double signification. First, To afflict with grief (Isa. 63.10.) They vexed his holy Spirit. Secondly, To fashion or form a thing (Job 10.8.) Thy hands have made me and fashioned me round about. The same word by a Metaphor signifies both to grieve and to fashion, to vex and to form, because a man that forms & fashions a piece of wood or stone, seems to put it to pain by cutting and hewing. And he that forms wax, vexes and chafes it in his hands. Thus I say, because in the fashioning of a thing, a man doth bruise, cut, and (as it were) put it to pain, therefore the same word signifies both to vex or grieve, and to form or fashion. And this word is applied unto the ill usage of words (Psal. 56.5.) Every day (saith David, speaking of his enemies) they •rest my words; or they put my words to pain and grief, or they painfully and grievously wrest my words, Davids enemies took up what he spake, and put a new shape upon it, and this ⟨p. 353⟩they did so vexingly, that they are said to wrest his words; a thing is vexed when it is wrested, or wrought quite out of the form it before had. The same Metaphor the Apostle Peter useth in reference to Doctrine, 2 Pet. 3.16. speaking of the Epistles of Paul, in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, or put upon the rack; they painfully form his words, and represent them in a meaning which he never intended. What is spoken may be right, both in the matter and intendment of the speaker, yet another wrests, forms, and fashions it in his own mould, and makes it bear a sense which the speaker never dreamed of.

The root hath a double signification. First, To afflict with grief (Isa. 63.10.) They vexed his holy Spirit. Secondly, To fashion or form a thing (Job 10.8.) Thy hands have made me and fashioned me round about. The same word by a Metaphor signifies both to grieve and to fashion, to vex and to form, because a man that forms & fashions a piece of wood or stone, seems to put it to pain by cutting and hewing. And he that forms wax, vexes and chafes it in his hands. Thus I say, because in the fashioning of a thing, a man doth bruise, cut, and (as it were) put it to pain, therefore the same word signifies both to vex or grieve, and to form or fashion. And this word is applied unto the ill usage of words (