Chap. 5. An Expofttien open the Book of J OB. Vert. 26. 393 {lead could they {land me? They were a trouble to themfelves,and therefore could' be no comfort unto others. Thisfull old 29e is explained further, by way of fimilitude, He [Ball die in a full age, like as a .(hock of corn comet!) in, in his feafon. When a young man dies, he is as green corn. The Pfal- mif{ imprecates that force may be like the graft or corn on the h©a[e -top, that withered) before it is cut down, whereof the mower pfal, raq. S ä ftlleth not hit hand, nor he that bindet!; up the (heaves hit bofeme. The life of a mart fometimes is 'like corn growingupon the horde- top,that withereth : Or ',as it is in the pe.rable of the lower- Mat. i 3.) like thecorn that fell on the high-way fide, or among fiones and thornes, which came not in, in it's feafon, it never !iaid the ripening or reaping,but was eaten up or dryed or chocked be- fore the harvc(l:. Now here, man is compared unto corn, lowed in good ground, well rooted and continuing out it's feafon, and is brought in ripe at harvefl. Old age is the harvefi of nature. Some divide mans life into (even parts, comparing it to the fe- ven Planets ; Some into five, cornp iring it to the five as of an interlude; but commonly the life ofman is divided into fourparts, and Co it is compared to the four feafons of the year. And in that divifion, old age is the winter quarter, cold andcloudy, full of Themes and catarrhs of dileafcs and difiillations. But here, old age is the harveft ; though thou art a very old man,thou {halt not die as in winter, but thou shalt die as it were in harve(l. when thou art full ripe and readic, as a (bock of corn that is laid`up in the barrie ; The general judgment of the world is compared to a har- vet, and death (whichis a particular day of judgment) is a har- veti too. Thofe words, He (hall come to hio- grave as' a(hock of cons, are ''-11-7V further confìderable, the Hebrew is, He [hall afcend as (hock of Afcendere' corn ; and thrt referring to death, is fometimes tranílated by cut- meat evonef- cere, velut in ring off, or taking' away, Pfal. roa. 25. Cut me not offin the mid.(t cutest üi,veld of my ¿ayes ; The letter is, Let me not afcend in the midji of my medic) toll!. daies: Whether it have any allufion to that hope or faith of the Saints in their death, that they dobut afcend when they die; or to their difappearing to the eye of fenfe, when they die, becaufe things which afcend,vanifhout of fight, and arenot feen ; In e1 gj~ij ther fenfe, when the Saints are cut downby death, they afcend. t'roprié fgnl° And they are elegantly Paid, To afcendas afhockof corn, becaufe Jc®t ocervum that is taken from the earth,and reared or (lacktup ; and fo by a frugutn, qui in, Eec Neu-
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