a7z Verf.r4.: 1nExpoftio4 upon the Book of iJ o a. Chap. 36, death of the hypocrite here is fully exp of ed in the former words, He fhall die with the youth, that is, like thole fulfill So- doumitith youths, like thofe youths who live in the heat et abo- minable lulls, though he Teemed to have an heat of holiners'; fo their life hereafter isfully exprefled in thofe latter words, Their life is with the uncleann. This clearly fers forth hypocrites, they are fl>iritual adulterers,they pretend love to Christ as their husband, but their hearts go a whoring after the wcrld. And therefore as their life was-really in this world, though they pretended other- wife, fo it (hail be vifible in the world to come, among the unclean, Hence Note ; Fir(l, They who are like the unclean in this life, !hall be wrapped up with them in the next life after denth,or in the fecor?d death. They who live like the wicked fhall dy like the wicked, and live with their, if theirs may becalled a life, for evermore. The hypocrire,with all his varnifh and fair colours,fhaIl not die like a godlyman,nor live with him after death ; though he bath lived the life of a godly man,as toappearance,yec he that not die.fo,nor live fo when the dead rife:he thai die and live like and among his own company, the unclean.. He was fecretly unclean in his lire, and he (mall openly live among the unclean, when he dyes. Balaam a Sorcerer,a Witch, a falfe Propher,how did he beg, that he might diethedeath of the righteeu', and that his left endmight be likebis (Nitre:x 3, r 4.) The hypocritewould fain die like thofe whom he bath imitated and made a (hew of all the dayesof his life ; But didBalaamdy like the righteous?no,he dyed,as he lived,like one that had loved the wages of unrighteoufnefs. Though hypocrites gave lived in reputation with godly and good teen, yea,have been reputed godly andgood nmen,yet when they diethey (hat go dog` n among the unclean, even among the debauched and filthy Sodom- ites,they Thai go to their own place and to their owncompany.lt is cv is :ó nr faid of Judaswhen he hanged hirnfelf ( Ails. t. z; ) Hewent to zoi +d'iov. bù own place, his proper place. All things naturally tend to that which is congeniali or like to them; heavy things downward, light things upward.What place is congenial ro,what place is the center of wicked men ? Surely Hell, the bottómlefs pit is their own place, and that's themeaning of the text t here. f rtdas was a great while among the Apofiles in an high place, in a very excellent place
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