Chap, 7. EIn,Expofitiótt upon tbeBooJt,ofJ O B. VerC t. 57= elegantly applied,to fignilie afet or anappointed time for anybet- finds. Is there not an appointed time to Man upon earth ? Vpgn earth ; In heaven our time knows nobounds,there are no termes or dittinóions in eterníty;Seafons and variety oftimes va- ui(h, and ihall not be heardof in Heaven. Eternity is time fixt.But there is an appointed time To manupon earth. The word is Enofh, miferable, weak, frail man; is there not an appointed time to this man upon earth? that is, while he walks in the lower region of the world, and lives on mould. The fum of all may be thus conccived,as ifJob had Paid: 3ingtil dick, Every day bath evil annexed, fome afliîlion or other waits upon face::lmina every houre, fo that there is noperiod ofmansforrow, but the period pr,e(lofuns, of his life ; andtherefore I walkby the ru'e offound reafón,when,that a deo non nif, I mightfee an endof my trouble, I call fir the end of my dales, cum ip; lá v a aatur Obi-Live hence, Firli, vile, 1 he life ofman is meal-wed out by the will ofGod. Is there not ac proinateJe= an appointed time to man uponearth ? There is. As God hath fet condom nato- out bounds and limits to thefea ( Hitherto thou Jhalt come, and ram,¡ì "èm vP-- nofurther)by a perpetual decrecifo,hc hath all() fit out bounds and tar expeto,7m limits to the life of man,his life it is an appointed time:thusfar the hneof thy life (hall reach,and no further. We live not at adven- tures, neither can our care lengthen out our own dayes:As all our care cannot add onecubit to our fiature, fo not one minute toour gials or hourc, And as we cannot lengthen, lo we cannot (horten our own daycs in refpcéì ofthis appointed time:They whodie in a time when God forbids, yet die when God appoints : And they live out all Gods time, who wickedly Jhorten their own : They cut their thread of life,but they cannot cut the thread ofGods de- cree; we live not at our own will, but at the will ofGod, we arc tenants at his will,in theft: bout-es of clay.He is the maker of time, and the tneafurcr ofour dayes ; he gives us the leafe of our lives for what years he pleafes ; and it is moll fit that he who created time, fhoulddifpofeoftime. God is the Lordeftime, and farmer it out, ar, and to whom be thinksgood. Ghrifl might doe what he pleated upon the Sabbath,for f faith he) the Son ofman is Lord alfo oftbeSabbath ; God is the Lord of time and therefore bath. power to appoint, to one more, to another fiefs. My times ( faith Davidare in thyband, Pfal, 31, 45. Thou mayefi lengthen or D d d d a fhortcn
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