Chap. 7. AnExpofttionupon theBookofJ O B. VerC 17. 64.7 not in me as jab brings in the creatures difclaiming wifdome (Chap. 28.) The feafaith, it is not inme; andthe earth faith, it. is not in me ; So if creatureswould (peak plainly, comfort is not in, us,help is not in us, fatisfadion is not in us, and fo tell us how vain they are, their vanity were lets to us, though the fame in it felf.It it worfe to he deceivedofgood then to want it. Surely (faith David of this life) every man walketh in a vaine jhem, Pfal. 39. 6. there is a (hew of this,and that, and the others humainie' thing a promife of it, but it is a vain (hew, it is but like a PafeAnt vita verum which feeds the eye, and delights the fancy, or plcafes the ear,but plidum,fed ap- palfeth away and leavcth you as empty as before : In the fift verse parent umbra ofthat Pfalme, the inventoryofmans temporal frate is fummed t :le,immágt- up, and the total amounts but to this, every man at his belt ftate is Altogether vanity ; and leaf{ any (hould think he bath mil counted, an affirmation is prefixt ; Surely every man at htt belt effete is altogether vanity , Every manis vanity, and every man is vanity at his bell efrate:not only in his afriiáions a rd in his loffes,, in his troubles and in his forrewes, fuch as Job now was in ; but take a man in the height,and perfec` ion,a.nd accomplishment ofall creature comforts and accrcwments : take the cream, the pith,the marrow, the fweetnefs ofall; extract aquinteffence ofall that can be had in creatures, all is vanity, Man at bit belt effete is vanity, yea altogether vanity. When Cainwas born, there was much adoe about his birth, I have got a man-child fromGod, faithhis mother, the looked upon him as a great poffeliion, and therefore called his name Cain, which fignifes a pofejfion; But the fecund man that was born in- to the world., bare the title of the world vanity ; his name was Abel, which is the word here uled ; They called his name Abel, that is, vanity:a premonition was given in the name of the fecond Abel vi-env. man, what would or 9nould be the condition of all men. Pfal, tram omniuun 144, 4. there is an allulon unto thofe two names; we tranflate it, feppiñ d. Man is like to vanity, the Hebew is, Adam is as Abel, Adana (youknow) was the name ofthe firfr man, the name of Abels father ; but as Adam was the proper name of the firfr, fo it is an appellative, or common to all men; now Adam, that is, manor all men, are Abel, vain, and walking ina vain fhadow. And this word is by fouie tranflated, nothing, bio- dayes are no- thing , Idols are nothing; time is but the Idol of eternity, and. things temporal., but the Idol ofthings eternal, This word fg- nfif]es
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