Chap .14.: hrnEExpofit-ion upon the Bookof Jos. Vcrf. r. Fourthly,See in this truth, whatfalfe conclufions worldly men make unto themfelves, when with him in the 12 th of Luke. Ver. r 9,20, they fay to their Souls, Souls, ye havegoods laid up for manyyears, take your eafe.eat, drink, and be merry. How vainly doe men reckon upon many years yet to come, when as their whole timePaft, prefent, and to come can make up but a few daies' ! The Apoftle Yarnes rebukes thofe upon this ground, who forelaid their bufinefs but one year, how much more are t'iey rebukeable who forelay their pleafures for manyyears ?chap. 4. 13, T4. Go to now, ye thatfay to day, or to morrow we will go into finch a City, and continue there a year, and buy , and fell, and get gain, whereas ye know not whatfhall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? Is it not even avapour that appeareth for a little time, ( that's at moft but a few daies ) and then vanifheth array ? So Paul Pleads down a worldly Spirit, (r Cor. 7. 29, 30. I fay brethren, the time is fhort, it remaineth, that they who have wives be as if they hadnone, andthey that weep, as though they wept not, andthey that rejoyce, as though they rejoyced not , and they that buy as though theypotfetednot, and they that ufe this world, asnot abu- fn it. We fhould fhortenour joys and our forrows,we fhould takeup ; ordraw in our ofedions about worldly things,becaufe our, time in the world is fhort, and our daies are continually drawing offfrom the World. Fifthly,This thould check our envy at the profperityofwicked then. Their day ( of account) is coming, and their daies (of receit) are going (Pfal.73. Tg, TS.) how are they breught to defolatson in a moment, and as adreamwhen one awaketh, fo O Lord, when thouava4efl, thouJhalt defpife their image, Sixthly, Let the righteous be patient in affliftions, all their daies are but few, and therefore their daies of Sorrow cannot be many. Tot a little while, andhe thatfhall come will come, and will not tarry. Laftly, Truft not in man, yea, ceafe from man whop breath is in his noftrils, and whole daies (becaufe they are few ). mutt thortlyceaf . Place not-the hopes of your life in him, who can- not (withwarrant) hope for a long life, much lets affare you ofany comfortof your life : feeing as his own life is empty of daies, fo it is as it follows in thisTèxt. FHA 5"5o
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