Chap. 7.. An Expofition upon theBookofJ 0B. Vert °`7. of point, let him reade it, as plaine as words can make it ( Ecci. r2 . 7. ) Then ( namely when man dies ) fhall the duf# return to the earth, as it was, and the f pirit(hall returnunto God, who gave it. So then ( to the text before us ) the foul is uota wind,but the life : And all thole Scriptures where life is compared to wind; and Hajufmrdï dying, to the paffingofit without returning, deny the regrefs or gYe,/J-acrda; ima. returningof the foul to a natural,not toan eternal life,and imply rum incorpora the fhort flay of the foul in thebody,and certain departure from muiotè ee;ort, it,not,a not being,when it parts.Thefe two muflpart,and fo part, fed uece Laren as never to return to that elate again ; Thus Job expounds him- m°r,erdi con )Alarttn, "' tell-in the words following; leruatem, Mine eye 'hall no morefee good. Or as the Hebrew, I (hall not return to fee good, anfwerable to the metaphor of a wind, it paf- feth away, and returnes no more. To fee. In this place, as often elfewhere,is to enjoy, I (ball not Videre boons enjoy good, Pfal4. 6. Who will fliers', or who will caufe us to fee pro frui, nèta any good? It was not the bare light ofgood, which they defired, locut ofl. but theenjoyment ofit. Sojer, ï7.6. Theman whofe heart de. parteth from God, is threatned,that hefhall notfee,whengood cam- eth, that is; he (hall not enjoygood, when it comes t For though to fee goodbea mercyyet tofee it andnot to taffit,ita curfe,There-'Lam. 13. at fore at the lafi day, they who thought themfelves high in Gods favour,but were indeed under his wrath, are told, that they pall fee Abraham,Ifaac and Jacob in theKingdome of God, and them felves flout out ; they lhall fee what they cannot enjoy, and that fight [hail add to their forrow. The Prophet cries out, Lament. 3. r../ am the man that hatbfeen aflitlion, that is, I am the max that hath felt and had experience of afic`ions.AndPfalm 16.10. thegreat promife to Chrift is, that though he took a corruptible 'body upon him, yet hefhouldnot fee corruption, that is, partake ofcorruption ; corruption Gould have no communion with, much lefspower over him. And we have the fame ufeof the word in this book, chap. 20. ver. 17. where Zophar tells the hypocrite, that God will depriveand 'trip himofevery good thing, Hefball not fee the rivers, the floods, the brookes of honey and butter ;- It is a rhetorical exprefliion, comparing the affluence of outward things, to floods, and rivers, and brooks, which fend forth their Rreames plentifully; as if he had laid, though there begreat flore ofhoney andbutter (thofe twoare fpecified for the reti ) though Hhhh2 there
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