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oty we cannot poslibly imagine them sop‘|' as to think themselves litterally to be: no sure, all they meant by these Ex-J^oas was that they were great, and ho-ti ? ra ^^ e > and powerful. Now the Prophe-^k Books of the Old Testament being writ-§ ln a Style somewhat conformable to thev r atory of those Counrreys,are not (I hum-jv conceive}, in every title to be so exactlyj^ned and litterally expounded, but so tolr >terpreted as a Jew or an Astatick wouldhave'understood them. And this I ra-j ti er think, because there be divers pa/Tagesa a. Prophets, which cannot be verified intfricSb literal sense ; as in the place beforeIsa. 34. A. It is said of the streams of^rn&a that they should le turned into pitch ,fs the. dust theretif into brimstone; and theffd thereof should become burning pitch xI should not be quenched night nor day ;f the smoke thereof should go up for ever.

Of t ( ie City of Tyre it is laid, E%ek.t '*4- It shall be built no more. And verseff When I shall make thee a desolate City ,

> i*be Cities that are not inhabited, when' a U bring up the Deep upon thee , andsft waters shall cover 'thee. And verse 11.

llc h is thrice repeated, I will make thee,f er eor i ans thou shalt be no more: though *>0li he sought sor x thou shalt never be sound

again