42 Verf:. 6. AnExpofition upon,tbe Book,of 3 0 B. Chap.330 oldeft man is called Mappeleth, from the farne root and reafon too in part,fromwhich they denominatean untinielybirth,that never lived a day. .When the old man dies, he falls as well as the newly tTa ,,, a conceived embryon ; the one falls off as a bloffom from the tree, ,E7,v , the otheras the fruit fully ripe,which(if you pull it not off) mull eadsver ca- dersdo. Eamp<'la'. Apud Ariflo- telem frgnifi- cat Puri poil fe,¡timurn intra quadra- gfio:am diem conceptum g alpud I3ipp5_ erateEl2 ollatio a^tenfe aster. Ariflot. l7.de líflereAnimal, e.7. `uflum remito. rit ordinemfer. vavit dominue in creandie,-fo- vendiJ (;' for. ro indic Apeno_ lu, Paulus ve_ ro i e dut be. tie concepto Spiritu vitali e e utero Ataje- titofiterat,mo.. ,mento fiinul genitu ú us- tea 'Vit plenecmrtie ',fait. Pin:d, fail c; The Greek word for a dead body,and the Latin,have the fame reafonof their .derivation,namely from falling ; Sofaith Iob, I had been as one of thefe.untimely births, that to the Earth before their time. The ApottIe Paul faith concerning himfelf, a Cor. 15. 8. , I was asone born out of due time, I was an untimely birth : Some of the gaturalilts fay, that word fignifies filch abortions as are after the Ièventh', andbefore or at the fortieth day after conception. Others , that it fignifies thofe who are bornn the eighth moneth, Which ufually as they are untimely,fo they dye. Now Paulcalleth himfelfan untimely birth , to fuit the humble thoughts which he had of himfelf,with an humble expreflion of himfelf; which Rea- fon he feems togive in the next words, verf.9. For Iam the leaßof the Apáffles, that am not meet to be calledan Apoftle,e-c. Evenas an untimely birth is not fit to be called a birth ; or, becáufe.children that are fo born,are very imperfec`f,they are leffer and weaker then thofe offull growth: So faith he,I am as a poor abortive,as a child born out of due time, I am the leafs of the'Apojles, andI am lefs then the leaff of all Saint,r,Ephef 3.:8. I amnot come to that ffaturc andgrowth ofa timely birth. Secondly,He calleth himfelf an un- timely birth, or one born out of due time,,probably for this Rea-, fon, becaufe of the fuddenncfs or violenceof hisconverfon ; For you know every abortion,or untimely birth,comes from Come Cud- den danger into which the mother falleth ; force firain or violence caufcth abortion : Paul in this fence was an untimely birth, his converfion was a wonderful violent converfion ; Chrift carne up- on him ofa fitdden,whereas the other Apoftles were a great while a forming, a i'haping,a fitting to an Apoftlefhip, but Paul was as it were in a moment conceived and born,brought forth and perfe'- ed an Apofle,and-fo from the fitddennefs and violenceof his new birth, he may call himfelf an untimely birth. But to pat's on from that to the words of job, As anhiddel, untimely birth, Ihad not been. Here are twothings diltinf'r about this birth. Firft,_It is called an untimely birth. Seeondly,dhidden An
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