An Ex a itie'u en the Book of 617 ChaP 7.. P f P 'Î J OB. Wed.. i o::._. In that place of Ecclefiaftes, Solomon is' only giving us a. de- fcription ofold age,and the fad conditionofman in it; he calietI it the evil day ; and wifheth menwould be wife to confider their latter end, remembring their Creator, and laying up a good foundation, before thole evil dayes' overtake them, before the light of the Stn, andMoon, andStars be darkened, and the clouds returnafter the rain. In old 'age, the clouds return after the raine,thus:as in fume very wet'time,when we think it hath rained fo much, as might have fpent and quite exhaufted the clouds, or drawn thofe bottles dry, yet you fhall fee them return again, it will rain day after day as fah as ever;fo in old age, when rheumcs dull fo freely, that you will think an old man had emptied himfeif of all, yet the clouds will return again, and flouds of wa- tery humours overflow. Thus the clouds of old age return And in this fence the clouds of theayre return,after they are con - fumed and fpent into rain : But how loth a cloud return ? not the fame cloud numerically, that cloud which was diffolved Both not return; the fame Sun goes down, and vanifheth, out of our fight in the Evening, and returneth again, the fame indivi- dual andnumerical Sun,in the morning;but that numerical cloud which vanifhed, comes not again : Thus man vanifheth and re- turnesas the clouds return after the rain,that is,after one genera- tion of men are dead, they return again in their children, another sii`lpod generation fprings up:other return to life there isnone,till all (hall ß o, 5 óunusodonn return at the generaljudgement ofquick and dead. As now we qu ns of , are, whonever were, fo all fhall return,who were,but are not. It poflinterinon was awitty anfwerofa learned jew,difputingwith a heathenphi_ denuo fora ne- lofopher, whooppofed theRefurreóion : Ifthat(faith he) which gatti?? Hnm i - never was in the world,nom is ; ís it firange, that, that whichnow is, dudmargi nti.' fhouldbe again, after it it not in the world?' If this be a wonder, the rum vidtur., other it much more wonderful. NeitherPall hisplace know himanymore; Illsplace, may betaken three wayes. Pita, for the calling and condition ofa man in this life, that's theplace a man, a mans Calling is his place. Or fecondly, Locally for his houfe or inheri- tance,where he dwelt ; he (hail come to that place no more. Or thirdly, Place is taken for dignity, magi_flracy,for the eminency of a mans calling, therefore we fay ofa Magifirate or a man in ho- nour, he hath a Great place ox he is a ma nofplaceor Rank; in all, thefe
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