Chap 14. fin Expoîstionupon the Bookof Jos. Verf. 5. 583 whether 7o: or 80. years, fach numbers are not to be fearched after. It is not for us to know theft times and feafons, }God keeps them in his own hand : Davidl fay, did not trouble him -. felf (or God about this) but he prayed that God would teach biro that holy skill to number his days, that he might 4pply his heart unto wifdome ; confidering he had but little time, he would be inftru&ed how to improve andufe it well. I hhall open the laft branch of the verfe, and then adde fume- what further by way of Obfervation. As lob acknowledgeth that our dayes are determined, and that the number ofour months iswith God, fo he concludes that thin. determination is unalterable and indifpenfable. Thou halt appointed him his bounds which he cannot pa Je f:WÚÿ ' j71?.ï" Statutitfe- lt is ufual with men to doe and undoe, to refolve and re- cif i Statuta, fcind their refolutions : but the determination of God fhall c, im & d<- ftand. He faith andmay fay it, what I have written Ihave writ- creta Dei de. ten. There are no rafures in the records o heaven : Thou hail ap- hominis vita pointed him his bounds which he cannot, pa e ; The Hebrew is, Thou pia velut: haft made hima ftatute, thou haft made him a Law : we rightly cancelli intra. tranflate law by bosnds, for laws are the bounds of mens a&r- quos homo ons, men,would be boundlefs and keep within no compaffe, if continetur there were no laws to rule andorder them ; God gave alaw to &- funt certi bound all men, &men make laws tobound filch as are under them, fines quos a And as God gives us a law to bound our lives in morality, fo he tra citraque gives a bound or a law to our lives in nature ; and as the way of nequit conf f mans life is fet out by a Law, fo alfo is his end or death. The A- terevita poftle fpeaks very futeably to this exprefiìon (Heb.9.27.) It is Mere., appointed (or made as a ftatute or law) to all men once to die. There is a law, or Ratite paired that man mutt die : and there is a law, or a ftatute paffed how longman (hall live, or when Iterato ræ- he mutt die, and that law of death is itrepealable. When the A_ ce to a suss rots. poftle faith, it is appointed toman once to die, (as we tranflate,) p p Theword onceis not to be referred to die, as if there were force e''' fufpition that man could die twife (when the. Apofile'ude fpeaks - of forne that are twife dead in fpirrtuals, he means only they are throughlr dead) But once is referred to appointed, it was once ap- pointed, and that once fhali ftand, there íhall never be anyal- z teringorrenewing of the fauate ; there's no need to make a te}°r;
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