314 Verf. 2 ©. ein Expo(iaion upon the Book of J o E. Chap, 5 Vei;kn,, tit y ther a defcending It is fail bÿ a late Writer Concerning c he oca- àfcendere pro then profane and wicked Linperorsof Rome,, Such a one defteaeied excidi ey_ tollt ( that is,died) in fads a year ofbis abomination. Now thougn the ,tatnstur. wicked defcendwhen they die, yet there is a fence aliowherein all men may be faid to -afcend- when they die; anad there is no . doubt but the godly, as to their more noble part, afceè'd to God when they die. Thus the word is ted in the fifth Chapter of this Rook, at the i 6th verfe, where Eliphaz fpeaking of the death of a godly man, faith to yob, Thou shalt come to thy grave tn a full age, like as a (hock of tern corned) (or afcendetb)tohisfeafon. Da- vid deprecated an immature death under this Metaphor (lPfat I'Qx. 14.) rake me not away in the neidf of mine- age,. The word is, let me not afcend in the midfi ofmine age, that is, beforeI have Trenfhtio a mealured the ufual courfe of life. Thus to afcend, is the fame with andetis, quo- tobe cat off; death cuts off the befc from this world, and then "'lumen of- they afcend to a better. This fenfe of the words fuits well with outarsesönfua the latter expofition of the night,, as taken for the night of death., cnuntatr ipfat. The word afeend, is conceived to have in it a double allufion.; tò corn which is taken up by the hand of the reaper, and thee. laid downon the Rubble. Secondly, unto the light of a candles which as the candle fpends, or as that which is the food of the fire is fpending,afcends,andat láR goes out and vanitheth. There is yet a further fenfe of the v holeverfe thus; Defire not thenight, &c.. That is, donot curiouflyenquire the caufe of that divine judgement by which God fometirnes fweeps away whole nationo, good and bad together, in the nighr,.or faddenly. Or thus, difquiernot thy mind in the night, butrather ref} in the will of Lod, when thou feel or heareR of chore great deecrts i- Su6,r bérf onswhich come upon perfons or nations. Defire not the night, pul,ju1aeatie- when people are cut offin their place, that is, when they die its, or Leo, are removed from the place where they formerly lived and had theirabode ; in which fenfe it is (aid of the dead, their place (halt knowthem no more (P/al. i o 3 . i 6. ) Howwell foever any are fetled, death cuts them of in theirpeace. Firfi, Forafmuch as Elihu fpeaking to lob in this difireffed date,, wifbes him not to dtfire the night, Obferve 3
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