Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v4

Chap. 14. Aa Expofit on upon the Baoi;ofJos: Verf. 6. 595 do in this World is in the fight of God, fo it is alto in the Memoryof God. For, He is not unrichteous to forget our work and labour of Love (pleb. 6. ro.) Both the Labour of our Cal- lings, and the Labour of our Sufferings fhall have a full re- ward. J G B Chap. 14. Verf. 7 , 8 , 9 , 1 0 , 11,12; For there is hepe of 4 Tree if it be cut down, that it will rout again, andthat the tender Branch thereof will not ceafe. Though the Root thereof wax old in the Earth, and the Stock thereof die in the Ground : Ter through the fent of Water it will bud, and bring forth Boughs like a Plant. But town dieth and Wa,fiethagar; sea, a man giveth up theG,6o fi' andwhere is be ? '44s the Waters fail front the Sc, a and the Fiend decayeth and drieth up So man lieth down and rifeth not; till the Heavens be no more they (hall not awake, nor be railed out of their Sleep. IN thefe fix Verfes, yob amplifies and illuftrates hisformer afferm j don, that, The daysof manare determined, and the number of his months, whichhe cannot pafs : He doth this, t . By a Difíimili- tude. 2. By a Similitude. The Ditììmilitude, is laiddown in the7, 8, 9, IO. verfes : We have the Explication, in the 7, 8, and gth. verfes, and the Applim cationof it, at the r oth. There is hope ofaTree if it becut down, &c. Ver. 7. But mandieth and wafted; away, yea man gives up the Ghof}, and where is he ? Verf. IO. TheSimilitude is contained in the a IA and rzth verfes, As the Waters failfrom theSea, &c. So man lieth dowsl and rifeth not, till the Heavens be no mere. G g g g vei,fe

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