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…

Take the words as we translate, so they yield a clear sense, and very agreeable to the original, Whose hope shall be cut off. ^*The word is rendered, Cut off, by a Metaphor, because when a man is ⟨p. 88⟩exceedingly displeased and vexed (as the word properly signifies) he many times tears his garments, and even cuts his own flesh, like the idolatrous Priests of Baal, who were so angry, because they could not get an answer, that they cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancers, till the blood gushed out upon them, 1 King. 18.28. Grief cuts the heart always, and sometime causes cutting of the flesh. The Lord complains (Psal. 95.10.) Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, it is this word, forty years long was I vexed and cut with this generation, with their murmurings, backslidings and unbelief. They did (as it were) cut the Lord to the heart; as in another place, They broke him with their whorish hearts, Eze. 6.9. God speaks there as a man, whose patience is almost spent, or, as an husband grieved with the disloyalties of an adulterous wife.

Take the words as we translate, so they yeeld a clear sense, and very agreeable to the originall, Whose hope shall be cut off. ^*The word is rendred, Cut off, by a Metaphor, because when a man is ⟨p. 88⟩exceedingly displeased and vexed (as the word properly signifies) he many times tears his garments, and even cuts his own flesh, like the idolatrous Priests of Baal, who were so angry, because they could not get an answer, that they cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancers, till the blood gushed out upon them, 1 King. 18.28. Grief cuts the heart alwaies, and sometime causes cutting of the flesh. The Lord complains (