39+ Chap. 5 AnÈxpofttion upon tbt Book sf J O B. Vert. 26. Metaphor it liignifies a Tomb or a monument ereaedor high built Arta erioitta. over a dead corpfe, much after the manner of a (hock of corn Met.tphericè So the word is ufed, He fhall remain in the ?ombeor Heap. yob tu, utrurn Ceti 22. 32. curiuluc'terr<a So then, the fum of thie 'Jerre, is a promife of comfort and ho- vel ononude tart japulc nour in death : He hall die in a full age,when he is ready and ripe impofiuum, for death. Yet this is not to be taken t'trialy, that, every godly man dies in fuch a full old age, in an age full of daies or hall of comforts; Many of Gods belt fervants havad evil dares in their old age; their old age hath had many daies o trouble and ficknefs, of pain and perplexity, But thus it is withmany in old age, and this is efpecially to be look't upon as an pld 'IrJtament pramife ; when the Lord dealt more with his people,in vilible external mer- cies. Yet, in one fenfe it is an univerfal truth, and ever fulfilled to his people, f,-r whenfoever they die, they die in a good age,yea though they die in the ípring and dower of youth, they die in a good old age ; that is,they are ripe for death,when ever they die; when ever a godly man dies, it is harvell time with him.; though in a natural capacity he be cut down, while he is green,and cropt in the bud or bloffome, yet in his fpiritual capacity, he never dies before he is ripe. God ripens his fpeedily,when he intends to take them out of the world fpeedily. E-le can let out fuch warme rayes and beams of his fpirit upon them, as 11ríll f)on maturate the feedsof grace, into a preparednefsfor glory : whereas a wicked man living an hundred years, hath no full old age, much lefsa good old age, He it ripe indeedfor deJfruelion, but he it never ripe for death ;, he is as unready and unripe for death, when he is an hundred years old, as when he was but a day old. He hath not begun to live,when he dies; or he is at the end of his natural race, before hebath fet one ftep in his fpirirual.Grayhairs are the flume, and fhould be the forrowof old age, when they are not found in the way of righteoufnefs. From the former branch of this verfe, obferve ; Firif, 7'o bave a comely burial, to come to thegrave with honour, it a great bleffing, It was threatned upon Jehojakim, the fon ofJofiah, as a curie, That be Amid have the. burial of an 4ffe, and be drag'd and cal} out beyond the gates of the City, Jer. 22.19. That man finely had lived like a beaft, whomGod threatn'd by name, that when he died, he fhould be ufed as abeaft; though we know the bodies of many
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