Chap.. i 3. AnExpofition upon the nook of Joß. Verf, 26. 533 Thirdly, Thogmake s%me to poffefs the fins of nor yourh,is,Thou makeft me topoffefs or remember all my fins : fob had the whole courfe and tenour of his life in vie F. Old age and youth are the two extremes of mans knowing time upon the earth : We car, hardly remember what we were, or what we did before the daies of ouf south, though before that we are evil, and do evil. Man is born in fin, and he fins aimoft as foon as he is born, but thofe fins fall not underour own obfervation. Ausiin faid of himfelf, I knownot the fins I committed in my infancy, yet I know that then I finned; whichhe proves, becaufe he had obferved anger and envie in fucking children. job goes not back io the fins of his infancy and childhood; which others might remember, but hegoes asfar as himfelfcould remember, even tothe fins Of his youth : Thefe he pottered, or the thought of thefepoffeffed him. That poffeffes amanwhich has mind runs much upon. God is there- fore [aid tomake him poffefs the fins of his youth, becaufe the dealings of God withhim caufed him to recoiled and read over all his fins ,efpecialIy the fins of youth. Fourthly, To po f "eft thefin r ofyouth, is, To feel forrowor pain nand eft quajr for the fins ofouryouth. We maybe laid to poffefs the fins of culp'eprognata or youth twowaies; £trft, when we feel the fmart of them ; fe- & falta, dig; condly, when we are affected with the filthinefs of them in our adea Pfve bomo riper years. Some old men pofi'efs the fins oftheir youth another fe éfucccdt way,namely, .by delight : For, as molt delight in the aêt of fin, obi ipfepen) and not a few are delighted in the hopes of tin, a fin to be corn- ó' adotefcenti. mined pleafes themwith apromifeof future pleafure, To mor- Paned. row 'hall be as this day (laid thofe Epicures, Ifa. 5.6.) and much more abundant. They tailed the fweet of fin before they came atit. So, there are forne that take delight in the fins that are part They that are old in fin, can talk merrily of, and conteur- plate.fweetlyupon the fins and vanities of their youth ; and in this they do not onlypoffefs the fins of their youth, but re-aft the finsoftheir youth: For,fooften as a man remembers a fin which he hath committedwith content, he commits it again. Holyyob did not poffefs the fins of his youth thus ; he reflected upon them . to mournover them, and repent afreíh for them, not to make merry with them, he chewed them over again in his thoughts, not as Tweet morfels, but as gall and wormwood. Thus he was , made topo fefs thefans of hisyouth. Fifthly, Tbefinsofyouth arepoffeQ"ed; When the guilt of them flits
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