270 Verf. 14. an Expofition upon the Book of j 0 11., Chap. 36, of thy youth. Young men are commonly fo unprepared to die, that whotOever die unprepared, may be faid to oie in youth ; yea, though they die in old age, they die infants. I may fay at lead in altifion to that of the Prophet ( poilibly it may be a proof of what' I fay ) Ifa. 65. 2o, ) An old man the hath not filledhis dayes ( by being good and doing good ) dieth a child. As a may befaid to die an hundred years old, when hedies full of 'race , fo a man of an hundred years old, may be'faid to die a child, an infant,when he bath nògrace ; for though he hath been long in the world; yet he can hardly be faid tohave lived at all So then, how long foever the hypocrite in heart bath had a being on the eau Eh, and a breathing in the air, he alwayes dieth in youth, fiTroittir cum or before his time , becaufe he bath not yet learned the way to 7uventa. jun. etel life. Ponitur a cap T here is yet another reading of the words ; we f4', they die in proDV ut . loarth, chat faith, they die withyouth, or youngmum ; that is, asdif- 'i43. 7. pirc. flute, deboya, vicious and riotous young men die,.fo hypocrites lEqUe 777ffielt die.The hypocrite is oppofed to the outwardly profane in his life, WY 6' but he than be like him in his death : As if Elihu had laid, look Paijudici° as vein voluptuous youths,carnal youths, or young men, who give Doi ur cirque juve- conteren- themfelves up to their pleafures , look as or how they die, look t niles¡Hi anuai what wrath is upon themwhen theydie , even fo fhall thehypo- guiprotervo crites in heart die, they die with the youth. r (half touch this obnitunturDeo, further upon the !ail claufe, where Elihu gives us this fence in o- r&palamad tn. er words, and in words that more fully reach this fence ; for conneltium projeaifuligint. having faidotheydie in (or with) youth,he thusconcludes, jun. and their life is among the unclean; Vt hic vita mori dicirur, Here it may be queried ; forafmuch ashe raid before, they die Authores inyouth, howdoth he here fay, Their life is among tke unclean? rearini4ifunt what life have they whendead ? I anfwer, By their lire, we may vityvivere e9t underftand that life which hypocrites in heart (hall have after viiara vivere. vita rooritur,' death ; which maybe ra.ien two wayes. Firfl, for the life of cum homo vi- the foul, while the body remaines a confumingor confumed lam cam mate carkafs in the grave, that life (after death) the life of their foules COMMIlt,it. is among the unclean. Secondly, for the life which they Ihall -Druf. orum have after the refurreEtion 6f their bodies, that will be among Vitae (flippieo ) au. the unclean too. Some tranllate the words thus, Theirlife is ta7 fertur. Pik. ken away among the unclean ; we fay, their life is among the un- clean
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