An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Fi••t, A R•• or a S••ff to smite or strike with, in which sense it is called (Prov. 22.15.) The Rod of correction; and at the 8th verse of the same Chap er, The Rod of anger; as also (Isa. 10.5.) O Assyrian, the Rod of mine anger (saith God) Here's a R•d to smite with.

Fi••t, A R•• or a S••ff to smite or strike with, in which sence it is called (Prov. 22.15.) The Rod of correction; and at the 8th verse of the same Chap er, The Rod of anger; as also (Isa. 10.5.) O Ass•rian, the Rod of mine anger (saith God) Here's a R•d to smite with.

Secondly, It signifies a Rod to govern with, or to rule with; and hence this word denotes the Sceptre of a Prince. The two great Emblems of Magistracy are a Sword and a Sceptre. The Sceptre is in the fashion of a Rod or Wand, which imports chastening and correction; and from hence it was that the chief of the Tribes of the Children of Israel (Numb. 17.2.) were commanded to take every one of them a Rod, according to the house of their Fathers, twelve Rods, and to write every mans Name upon his Rod, and lay them up in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, &c. Now those Rods given in by the Princes of the Tribes, were as so many Emblems of their Power and Authority, because to the chief Magistrate the punishment of the faults and miscarriages of all under his government did belong. And hence the same word signifies a Magistratical Rod or Sceptre of Government, and a Tribe or whole Family under the Rod o Sceptre of a Governor, because as Rods or Banches gow from one Root, so many Tribes or Families from one Father; thus the Twelve Tribes of Israel spung from Jacob. And that's the Reason why the Latin Translator renders this place, not as we, (whether for correction) but, Whether for a Tribe; the meaning of which reading, Whether for a Tribe, or for his Land, is thus given, Whether it be for one particular place, or for the whole Country or earth in general, as