6i* 8 Chap. 7. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. i o. there fenfes, bis place(hall know himno more. Hisdace (hall not knowhim. That's an elegancy of the holy language. Places are without life and without fènfe, much nsore without knowledge ; knowing is an adof reafon, how is it then laid, Hisplace (hall know himno mare?Did it ever know him?there's" a double figure in it:Some underhand it by an Hy¡allage,or tranf- mutation ofthe words, hisplace Pall know him no more, that is, hefhall knows hisplace no more. So that is expounded ( Pfal. 103. 16.) Theplace thereoffhallknore' it no more, (peaking ofman paf- ling away like a wind. So Pfal. 37, to. Thou (halt diligently confider hisplace, and it Jhall not be ; his place (hall not be ; places continue while the world continues ; then, his place (hall not be, is, he!hall not be in bis place. Or fecondly, underhand it by a Prafopepeia, (frequent in Scripture) which is the imitation of life, by things without life : when a place takes upon it the per. fon ófa man, or when a place as or imitates the fpcech of a man : fenfe and reafon are often afcribed to things without life, kafi d,ceret, and fo the meaning of, his placefbell know him no more, may be ip/tretinan conceived thus: When a man lives and comeshome to hishoufe úñu pr' his houle (as it were) welcomes him home, and his place is glad rene ad nurus to entertain him ; as in the Pfalme, the little hills are:faid to rejoice mortalzbus, at the (howers, fo, when a man comes home, his houle and all morruis town he hath,haveas it were, a tongue tobid him welcome,and open rulifue :ne, armes to receive and embrace him;but when he dies, he !hall re- ifies don't- turn no more,and then hisplacefball knowhim (that is receive not. Ba eninn him) no more. el yr verbi Obferve from this briefly (becaufe it is a fimilitude of the fame rognofcendi d! importance with that opened in the former words) fiat, non coinojeen That death is the conclufion ofall worldly comfort,- and relations. Äi. As the cloud vanifheth and returneth not, fo (in that lenfe ) t here is an utter conclufionof man,he is gone, and there is no re- turning ; God by his almighty power, hath fetcht back fouie, and the vanifhing'clouds have been brought again : Co Lazarus (and others at the death ofChrih)was railed from thegrave; but in a natural way, death feizeth all fat for ever : your places,your relations, your credits, your friends (hall know you no more, or g ive you farther entertainmfnt. Secondly oblerve ; That Godbath givenus not only the bookoftheScripture,btit the Lookof thecreature, therein to readandlearn our ownfrailty and mortality. The creatures preach what man is, and that is a reafon
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