228 Chap.i2. An Expofition upon the Boo&of JoB. VerG12. as with marrowandfatnefs, and my mouth (hall Araife thee with joy- full lips, when Iremember thee upon mybed, and meditateon thee in the night watches. As there is all manner ofriche3, isall man - Ponleius non ner ofdainties in the believing meditations of God : every pro- aufíaret edam mile is a di(h,and all the promifes are a royal feafeto faith. Hea- phitor,pbi,ám. thens have given this notion about the twit ofwords. Cicero in Cie. ejuios Guffaré his Oration againft Pifo, faith, Pompey could not tali that Phylofo- fermonem voto phy, He was a great Souldier, a man ofa&ion, and troabled not Plaut in mo- litmfelf with fedentary Ratlies, and bookith contemplations. ße1 All, 6. And as there is a fpiritual tart, lba fpiritual hearing, or rather there are the fame; to tale fpiritually is to hear fpiritualiy. It 7udicare Menu was the meat of Chriff to do the will of him that fent him Iris eft ip/hns fen- meat to fuch as are Chrifts, to hear the will of God by thofe Lire qui namq; whom he fends,and the more they hear,the more wifdome they fentit judicat get, as followeth : attq" o 2. L 2. de. Vale 12. With the ancient is wifedotne, andin length of dayes Ardí. ean. underfianding With the ancient is wifdome. The fences are a door to the un- D'311`ib deritanding, both a&ing together lay up treafures of knowledge, decrepthit. ,therefore with the ancient is wifdome, and in lengthof dayesunder- flanding. The wordwhich we tranflate ancient, lignifies not the firft, nonor the fecond ( for the Hebrews reckon three) but the third and laft flap of Old age. The firft, by their calculation begins at the year threefcore, and extends to threfeore and ten : when man is threefcore,he enters ( fay they) the borders ofold age,and while he is travelling to thrcefcoreand ten, he is in the firft territory of Old age. The fecond reaches from three - fcore and ten to fourtcor'e : He is an old man indeed whoattains 7üplex feu,. that reckoning, (Pfal. 9o. io. ) The third is, that whole (pace fus ap«d ye- be it longer or (porter, that man lives beyond fourfcore. And brezoc, decrepi- that is properly meant by the word ufed in this Text, with the ti flat annofi ancient is wifdome, and the more ancient any are, the more wif- s iesJènbus dome they may he fuppofed tohave. Not that every old, or every decrepit old man bath wifdome, fame hashattained the last degree or fiep ofold age, who have not attained the firft degree ofwifdome. They have walked in a vain (hadow, and have learned nothing. But when he faith, with the ancient is wifdome, he means ; Fire} it is the dutyof old men to (hew forth .wifdome. Secondly, Old men have had a
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