Chap. i 5: An Expofition upon the Bookof 013, Yerf.2o, 93 , that the number of his years, or how long he (hall live is hid - dento him ; ?.Is not the number of , a good mans years hidden to him? Are not the number of :everytrans years hidden to him ? Doth any man know how long he fha l live ? Dvid indeed prays, Teach me to number my days (P 9 ) a Make me to knowmine end, and the meatùre of my days, what it is, Pfal. 39..}., Yet he doth not defire to know precifely the number of his days, or . time of his end, he onely d :fires to know their general number , or utmofi extent ípiritually namely, that at the moil they were not many,that fo he might make a wife improvement of his life, and-a holy preparation for his death. Seeing then the number of every-mans years is hidden to him, how is ,this reckoned as the peculiar punifhment of a wicked man, that the number of his years are hidden to him ?. Lanfwer, it is true, the number of years is hidden from all men, both from good and bad, the Lord hath made that a fecret. Two numbers are fecret. Firít., The, number of the years of the world, when that (hall end Of that dayand hour keow.s no man, no not the Son of. man, , but the Father onely. Secondly , The nuçnber of the years of a mans own life ,. or the day of his death, is a fecret which no man knows,: though many have been bttfie to pry and.e;duire into it. But though godlymenknow not the number of the years of their own lives, yet this is no afi6tion.to them, under which notion it is here faidof.the Opprrifor, The number of.years.is hidden . to him. Awicked man is thoughtful about this, how he may live long, not how he may live or do well ; he would fulfil many, days and years in the World, that fo he might have his ftlLof worldly profits and pleafures. , He is therefore troubled to think ;his life hangs upon uncertain terms, becaufe he is un certainofany good beyond this life. A godly man knows not the number of his years, but he knows by whom they are numbred that fatisfies him, be they longer or fhorter, more . or lets. But a wicked man would have the account in his own hand, he would be Lordof all, even of time too, but ho canto;, The number ofyears are bidden to she Opprefor. Obfervca'
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