272 Chap. 19. e...-fn expoftion upon the Book of j o a. Verf.18; tle child t I know not bon, to goe out, or to come in, r Kings 3.7. Yet at this time Solomonhad a childe, as appeares (r Kings 14. 21. ) for he reigned but forty yeares, and Rehoboam his fon was one andforty yeares oldwhen he began to reigne. So that he called himfelfe a childe, becaufe he was young, and with refe- rence to his yeares unfit to rule fo great a people.. Thus here, Toung childrendefpifed me ; That is, young ones defpifed me. 7arofe, and theyfpake againft me. Not onelydid they defpife when I flood upon my authoti- tie, as anantient manmay doe, but when Iarof , that is, when I fhewed them refpec'l, and ( as it were) did obeyfance to them. To rife to any man is a gefture of reverence as well as to fall downe before him. Children ought torife up, and Phew reve- rence to the aged. ?ob role to children, and yet they gave him no reverence. Yet fomeunderíland it barely of the a&, I arofe, and went away from them, and as Toone as I turned my backe So:nnl acfuere- they fpake againt me. As ifhis meaning were,Though they 4r11 xerp Q7ab illis not fpeake againfi me to myface,yet aefoone as I turned mybacke, eceffi,miht de- tra5,,nt qui they reproached and(corned me, what ? is thisYob ? But I rather pra entem non take it as before, that ?6bcondifcended in refpe is to young ones, auderent ira who, forgetting their diflance, gave him none. As he did not aratiare. Meta. onely call`his fervant, but intreated him, as he did not onely fpeake to hiswife, but entreated her, fo he did not onely deale gentlywith, but fhewed refpe& to children, and yet they de- fpifedand fpake againfl him. Of this he complaints, both as their fin, and as his af$i&ion. Hence Obferve. Firft, They that areyoung owe reverence to the aged. This is feated in-the Lawofnature, and we finde an expreffe Law, for it given by God himfelfe to his ancient people the ewes ( Levie. t 9. 32. ) Thou (halt rifeup before the hoary head, and honour theface of oldmen, and feare thyGod, I am theLord. He that weares the Silver crowne fhould be honoured, in `his capacityas well as he that weares the golden L'rowne. As we are to honour our parents, fo every old man, for he is as a parent. And if the younger ought to rife up before the hoary head, and give them reverence, how great a perverfipn is it both of
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