58o Chap; i4. l4;E'xpoftiotr upon.the b'oovof JoB.` Verfe . ear,; ?ot pajje, and fromwhich he cannot return. Bat thus it is with poor man, there is d fet period of his life, and a4. he à'annot get beyondit, fo he cannot come back. from it. Therefore turn awayand let me have fame reg. As ifhe had faid, $e des, th,rr ihis life is full of evil (ia-s wasfbewed before ) death the á-reatefl of n;ituralevils isat hand, which fuddenly takes us away, throwethus into thegrave, ,hides its there without poffibility of re.. turni=ng tofach a life as we here enjoy. ob hath ufed this argu- thent before : neither fhould it feem fi_range that he now repeats and modeftyobjéft,it unto God tomove pity, and flit the bow- els of his compaflion towards him. The Pfalmift, whether Davidor force other pen-man, argues thus (Pfal. 89.48) Re- member Lord how fhort my time is, wherefore haft thou made all men in vain ? What man is he that liveth and'ball notfee death, and Jhall he deliver his foal from the bower of thegrave? He urgeth the Lord to grant force eafe, force breathing, fame refpit and relaxa- tion in this life, becaufe death cannot be far off, from which there is no refcue, no returning, g17movita- The word whichwe tranflate determined, fignifies properly to gitavit qua- dig, and by a Metaphor to. make an exa& and curious fearch, dam a. /acri- or by fearching thoughts to dig down into the depth of a bat-, tate, etiaoo ntiffe, and thento,fettle it. Hence it is tranR ted diligent, _ (Prov.` fedulo Ç fo- ro. n..) The hand--of the diligent maketh rich; -properly the hand lieite mina- of the digger mob r rich. And the word imports not only dig tifimagquæq; ging in the ground fo ordinary commodities, as for ffones, or suravit ordi- coals, but digging for gold and f lver, :for the molt pretious navit,ftatuir met tals or minerals ,; how diligent a}e, tñ.? =n;when they digg for decrevit. fuch treafure and,for riches ? ftch is the-diligent, hand whici ma- =nil°i i' keth rich. Now becaufe when we make any ferions determina- Confumet po-tion upon any matter beforeus, we firfl~ fearch or dig into the pulara, e bottom:: of it : Therefore the word is tranflated here to deter_ pracifis armmine. ' l'it fo alfo l,ra. 10.23. The Lord Godof hefts bath made a putatifq; in- confumption, even determined in ,the .mic /,of ail the laid. God' aatilibsosim- makes many confumptions, he lays whole countries and king- piis,ab6revi- domes wage ; but his are not confumptions at a venture, or by habit populum haphazard, accidental confumptions, but confumptions determi- admina- ned, that is, the Lord fets (Iowa directly who and how many, tifimuju- where and when, what perfons, what places, what eftatesand florum rely- things flaall be confum td ; God makes a determined confump- quiar, red- don _ in the greateft confulions and, hurry of the nations. When Set. Pined. we
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