'.Chap..10. An Expofitiot apeman Book of .3 ®B. Vert, i.' ¢-r.g. That the life of mast may grow to be a burthen to him. In the third Chapter j(4 whiled :or death, his with was era -' mined there, about the lawfulnefs of it, I hill now onlyexamine C a touch about which was given lately ) whence this weariness of life canting wishes to be rid of life Both arife. There is a wea- r'inefs of life incident only,and proper to wicked men. And there is a weariness of life, which may grow upon the bell of men. Take abrief account of the ufual grounds of both. firtr, Carnal men are often lick with dilcontent, and die of a humour : If the Lord will not give them their lulls, they bid ;him take their lives. eceffaries and competencies will not fatis-. :fie them,they mull have:fupc:rfluities; they languith, if theyhave .not (wails to their Manna, as Ifrael once detired and hid. Was it any thing but this, which made Ahab go home fullen and fad ? Sullen faduefs is a degree of this wearinefs. Ahab had a King- dom, and yet he could not live without a Vineyard. He that taller away another mans life to obtain what he defirer, thinly his own life Jéarce desirable, unlefl he may obtain it. There was a spice of this dillemper in Jonah, though a good man, and a Prophet (Jonah g..S.)becaufe the Lord did but kill his Gourd, kill me too, faith Jonah., He xiifhed bimafelf to die, andlaid (his Gourd being dead) It k better for me to die then to live.. It is an excels of de lire, when we delire any outward thing (much more when we detire things unneccffary, things not to fupplyour wants, but to ferve our lulls) As Rachel did children ( who are the bell and noblefl of outward things ) Give me them,-or elJe. 1 die ( Gen. 3o. r.) Secondly, Some wicked men are Nszearied of their lives by the horrour of their consciences. A hell within, makes the world without a hell too. They who have a fight of eternal death (as the wages of fin ) without the tight of a remedy may loon be wary of a temporal life. As much peace of consëience and föul joy in believing, makes force of the Saints with themselves' out of the body ; fo alfo,,doth, trouble of conscience, and grief of foul make manyof the wicked. A man who isnot at all wea- ry of committing fir, may be weary of his life, bccaufe he bath committed it. And he, who was never troubled that his wicked- nefs is as an offence againfl God , may feel his wickedness ex- tttiiély offcntiveagainfl h.imlelf. To fuch a foul the evil of fin is fo great an evil of punithment,that he is ready to cry out with Hhh a Cain,
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