Chap. 13. AnExpofatioí upon the Book ofJos. Verf. iB. 421 the kings andpotentates of the earth fpeak at fuch a rate, that a Fo. rè etia,mer- they can eater dellroy men,then fay they will deifroy,howmuch trem">n Gtben- more may God ? This is really trueof him who is tine only Po- cn f"yptiu Y Y y uneris nontine tentate, theLord of heaven and earth, that it is as ealie for him proponitur, vet to dettroyperfons and nations, and to make their remembrance ftginficac mor.. to be as aches, as it is for him to fay he will. tem, ignabitem. Some others (peak higher a, and interpret this text,as they fay 11:'sentenriarir probably , of eternal Eire : as if job had threatned his friends banc, etx ex ci_ . with damnation. Shall not his excellencymakeyou afraid ? Tear nere duóïam(s- remembrances are like unto afhes, you fhall be turned into hell, militudincn; ad and fent to everlatlingdefiruEtion. But I approve this lefs then tPfts iefponfra- the former, lob was difpleafed with his friends for their tics & opinions concerning him yet doubtlèfs he had a better opi- nion amicorre- P g Y p refert ; y. d. re- of them then to judge them under fuch a difpleafure of fpo¡ones ve- God, fire portant ,6 Thirdly, Tour remembrances is expounded actively thus, the collabuntlrVar, things whichyou remember b, the reafoningss objeftions and re- cords u'di`1ï1 which you have brought out of the Elorehoufeof your me- t= n ories againtl me, and would have remembred, are like unto' cebantur ills allies, utterly extinét and eaLly blown away. The word Re. quieranta membrance, is ufed in that fence (Exod.t7.i4.) WhereMofes commentariis, is commanded to write a memorial against .Amalek,, that is, to quig3 negotie record fomewhat as a remembrance againtt them : Records, and fcrtptit mande.- theofficer that keeps records are bothexpreffed by this word, cant. th p p Y eheinoth i. e becaufe they preferve the remembrances of what is patt. memoriarutn. Though this hath afair fence, yet it feemeth not to be fo clear Eft. 6. r. to the conneftion'of thefe words, therefore I rather infitf upon c At tins eft a fourth interpretation `,taking this remembrance moregenerally emguigLís a. for any thing which is memorable in man ; as riches, dignity, mici. Met, Poet. power, credit, learning, wifdom. As if Job had faid, Thefethings Memoria ve_ by wh;chyouhope to be remembred,, andbecome famous in the world, ftra i. e. quit_ are but afhes; that is, mean, and ofno conlitence. (Prov,ao,7.) quid in vobis Thememoryofthe juß is bleffed, but the name of the wicked fhall memorabile elt , rot, The memory, that is, when perfons living in after ages tasfaema, ÇPinr_ (hall remember the juft, theywill clefs them and highly efteem dot er vita, ni_ them, but thename andcredit ofwicked men fhall confume as a hii aliad c,it rotten thing to nothing. quinn ciais, o Taking their remembrance for that which was moil memora- rata in cineee ble in them, we mayobferve, li nititut m That the bell things, ,thafe things which are nsafl.remarkable tee e .mew. G g g 2 - and rc,
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