570 oppofitions which encompafs aitd beret us every day. We wraftle not with,fiefh andblood, but with principalities and powers, &c. And are therefore advised to take to us the whop armour of God, never to (fir without our (-word. Sixthly, a warfare,in regard ofthe ifhue ; vi6fory and triumph, or flavery and death, is the iffue ofour lives.Either we overcoolÿ and are more then cenqueroatrs (that's the Apotf les language, Ram, 8. ) or elfe we are conquered, and more then captives, that's the Apoftles fence too ( both in allu(ìon) They are taken captive by the Devil at his will : To be lead captive by the Devil, is the Lowell captivity, lower then any captivity utyto men. In rcf.rence to the fpiritual part ofour warfare, there's no conning .off upon equal termes : We mull be viEfors-6r ¡laves, conquer or die. Only .this is the faints affurance, that as the Captain of their falnation was madeperfea byfieferings, and conquer'd by dying, fo( at the worn) (hall they fpiritual death(as finners)hath no power over them at all,and when they dice as inen)natural,or by men violent- ly; they (hall receive fuller power : Thus our life is a warfare up .anearth. But take the word as we tranflate, for an appointed time ; Is therenot anappointed time to man upon the earth ? And The reafon why it bears that fence, is grounded upon thefe two things tdon slgnificat i. Becaufe there is a (-pedal feafon of the yeare, molt fit and rem,sxihmpti- futable for war, 2 Sam. ra r. And it came to pafr at the cirer, fed rem- returne of the year, When Kings go forth to battei. The time pee certumae for war, is fuch a known appointed feafon, that the fame word conf uru, ea ana ogia n m quad Lignifies warfare, and any appointed feafon. determinato 2. Becaufe men go out to war, at a fpecial time of their annttempore age : There is an appointed fetled time ofmans life,wherein he is exerceriforet fit to bear armes : Every age is not fit for arms. Old men and chil- an idea dren are not fit for the field : Hence we find, Numbers the firft, Pjlilrria rem?ui deter- throughout,that the mutter of the childrenof/Pad is thus made, minatumdici- ver. 3, so, 22. fie. From twenty yearer oldand upward all that IV? quia;non are able to goe forth to war. The Roman and Greek hifiories quash eta, are diftinet in this ; In Lome Commonwealths, from Fifteen to deteaet3, Fifty, in others, from to and in ours, the derermtao- Ya Y Sixty PP ra fT caw- ted time is, between Sixteen and Sixty, fo men are prefs'd & lifted for war ; And becaufe there is fuch an appointed, ora Let time of life is all States to goe out to wax., therefore, that word is elegantly Chap. 7. IYn Expofttion upon sheBook of J O B. Yerf I. %T72.2. 2.6,
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