574 Chap. r o. An Expfition upon the Book.of ' j p' °E. Vert í9. threatens Ldorn, That they (hall bear. though they hadnot been ; that is, they mutt perith, and their,memorial with them. Some are fo thruft out of the world, that they. (hall be as if they had never been ; and;fome came into the world fo, that.their being was, as if they had, never been. A fhort life is by common ellimation no life. As in heaven, where .:we (hall live for ever, we lhall be as if we had ever , been : So on earth, .(orate live fo little, that they arc as if they never were-; that which bath an eternal duration, and (hall never end, is as if it had ever begun ; and that which is but ofa Ibort duration and ends quickly , is as if it hadnever begun. The reafon why the fruit of tin goes for nothing, is, becaufe the pleafure of fin is but for a feafon, and that ,a very little fcafan, Whatfruit haveye ofthofeethi egs whereofye are now ajhamed?That is,Ye have no fruit, or your fruit was nothing.: we may fiy ofall the pleafures of fin, their cradle is their grave, or more near jobs language,tl ty are carried from the womb, to the.grave.So he (peaks next of hintfèlf. Ifhould have been carriedfrom the wont&to thegrave I (hould have paired without node or notice. There woul havebeen little trouble with me in the world, (hould have made but one journey, and that a (bore one. The fpeech is proverbial lroverb:atre, From the womb to thegrave, is the motto of Infant-death. The aburera adfr. Septuagint read - it as anexpoftulation, Wherefore was I not car - i- pulehmor,rum ed out from the womb to the grave ? It would have been a happi- quuJiaulae nefs to me, either not to have been at all, or to have had a be- ing but equivalent (in common account) to a not being. And thus it hadbeen with me,ifmy firft flep out of my mothers womb: had been into the wombof thatgrandmother the earth. job is of- . ten upon the fame point, renewing his de(iresafter death : he did fo (as hath been toucht) at the third Chaptor, and at the fixth, and -now he is as fierce and fre(h upon it as ever. Agodly man may often diJcover thefame infirmity. Whilett the fame flock ofcorruption remains in us, it is produ- diveof the fame corrupt fruit. There is a feminall verrue in the .earth, look how often it is plowed and Cowed, fo often it fends forth a crop ; there is a feminal venue in the earthly part of man, which makes him to put forth evil, asoften as occafion plows,and temptation fowethhis heart. Verle so.
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