\erf., 17. AnExpoftion upon the Bóokof J O B. Chap.3. and though they ha-ve gone with it a long time , and are ready to bring it forth,.yet in PJál. 58.8. faith he, Let them be (that is, let their counfels and deligns be ) like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not fee the Sun ; that is, let them be dafhed and Mailed, let them never bring forth their poyfonous brood to the hurt and trouble of theworld. To thelè, faithJob, I am Pure I fhould have been like, if not to Kingsand Counfellors, and had been as wcll,and all one to mein death,untimely births,and thofe that go down to the grave as a fheáf of corn that cometh in ripe, are all one ; there is no difference in the grave between the infant that,never fa.w the Sun, and him that bath lived to fee anhundred recourfes of the Sun. The fpeechof Job proeeeds,toa third fort,he ftrengthens his-ar- gument ofreft in death.I fhould certainly havehad refs in death ; for in death,even they who have been moll vexed, whohave had leafl refl,who have been even millers in the world,they have found reft indeath This he clears by a further Indu ì ion,in the 17,x8, 19. Verfes. There the wickedceafe from troubling , and there the weary be, at refl. ..There theprifoners reft together, they hear not the voyce of the:op- prefforé ''thefmall andgreat are there,and thefervant itfreefromhis maffer. --When he had fpokea ofthe reft ofdeath,.concerning thofegreat and mighty ones,and the reft ofdeath concerning untimelybirths and infants, then he fpeaks of the reif which poor oppreffed ones, or which wicked oppreflors have in death ; all thofe have a reft in regard ofoutward bodily troubles , agitations and labours in,the grave, therefore certainly there I fhould have been at reif. There (that is, in the grave) the wicked ceafe from troubling : True reif and wickednefs nevermeet,reft and the wicked meet but feldom. And it is but half a refit, and it is reft but to halfa wicked man,to his bones in the grave ; and it is ref} to that half but fora little time, only till the Refurrection. The word which is here ufed for wicked,is confiderable: though every wicked man bea firmer yet every .finner is not a wicked inan:It is one thing to fin, and another thing to be wicked ; there parediveis words in, the, Hebrew Tongue, which lignifie as it were z tl'C
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