516 Chap. i4., din E pop tiou upon the Bookof Jos . Verfe 7. Verfe 7. For there it hope of a Tree if it be cut down, that it will ¡prose again, and that the tender branch thereof will not ceafe. The general fubjec`t of this Context, is the famewith the for- mer, which bath alfó been infibedupon from other paPfages in This Book ; namely, that mandying, returns not from death in this World : So that (here being no newmatter) my chief bu- tineffe will be to explain the terms, a d clear the parts of this Diflimilitude , There is. hope of a Tree. z uia e, ff ar- Or, A Tree bath hope, fo the Letter of the Hebrew, and fo it úvri fpes. is rendered by learnedInterpreters, afcribing that to agreewhich Pign. is proper to a man, hope : That which" bath no reafon cannot rave any hope, nor doth the Hebraifm intend any more then our reading : To fay, a Tree bath hope, is only this; man loath., ;hope 'of q. d. Arcar a Tree, or, there ishope of aTree. ATree bath a natural 'aptitude habet nata- to fprout up alter it is cut down, and therefore man hopes it ralem apri- will. There are three Opinions concerning the .Rope of 'theft; twdinern set Words. reparetur. Firft, Some conceive lob exp'tiiing his hope,of the Refurie- äion by this comparifon: And then thewords are 'a-Similitude., .Auó-u/linars not a Difìamilitude : As a Tree cut downfprouts again,fo, though docet h.oc man be cut dowel by. Death, yet he (hall revive and rife again. verbaconti- What the Prophet fpeaks of the reboring of the People of God nerc in' fe she 1ewr from the grave 6f their civil death (their Captivity in vim fzrnili_ Baby?6n) is as true of the reboring of all the People of God tudinis & from the Graveof a.natiiral death _ ';Thy deadmen i/ia/I live, toge- exponi debe- ther withmy dead body 'hall they rife, äsratié and ling ye- that dye!, reper iron- in the DO-, for thy dew is its the dew of Herbs, and the Earth -f/all q. d. fci- cafh out her dead, Ifa. z6. ag. In perfna neeof which'Expofition, lice* homo the Quebion at the Clofeof the t oth::Verfe, and whey:e he:? Is xon: refarget read with an Admiration, which gives;- the Senfe th ú Loth eme videa- theTree grow when'cut down? And. Both man die, wafle away, trtr reforge- give up the Ghoft ? And, Is heno where ? What ? Is he no where ? re arbor Sic That°s incredible : Man is fomewhere2when he is not here, 'and eriamLyra- -in due time it will appea>ä,where he i . Some of the Ancients ex- taus apud pound the wordsts a holy Triumph ,over,. or Seornof Death, as Merc. ifhe had paid, what ?/ lealifenfelef _ rees and Shrubsgrow upagain? and
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