Chap. ¡9. AnExpofition upon the Bookeof J OB. Verf. 2$. 343 From this application oftheTest, Firft, Obferve; That therefhall he agenerall lodgement, bath 6een known and beleeved inall Ages. While Solomon feemes to let the young man loofe to his plea- fures he prefently gives him a checke, or a coder upon this ac- count (Eccle. 12.9 ) Rejeyce O young man in thyyouth&c. Rut know for all there things God will bring thee to rodgeroent. The Pre=cher concludes his pxnitentiall Sermon with this poyrt ; god/hall bring every worke to judgement, andevery fecret thing, whether it hrgood or evift. The Apoftle ?ode fpeaking of the lapfed Angels, affuresus at the 6. Verf. that, The Angels rhat kept not their fi ft eftate, but left their owne habitationhe bath refer- ved in everljftingchains under darkneffe, unto the lodgement of the great ay. In the t ai.th and i 5 th Verfes,he fhewes how early this do&rineof a judgement was in the Churchof God ; Enock the feaveuthfrom Adam,p-ophecied of this, faying;Behold the Lord coma eth with ten thourands of loss saints, to execute ?udgement upon all, & to convinceall that are ungodly amongft them,of all their ungodly deedes which theybave ungodlilycommitted,& ofall their hardfpee- ches which ungodly(inners have (poker: againft him. Enoch lived long before 70b,yet in his time this was a famous wel known point offaith; And we find that in the Apoftles time, it grew into the number offacred Proverbs, which are all famous, & commonly known.( r Car. t 6.zz.) Ifany man love not theLord ?elite Chrift, let him be anathema maranatha, that is, let him be accurfed till the day of Judgement,or till the Lord come to Judgement.The Apo - ftle ufeth two words, tonote both the vehemency of his owne fpirit in fpeaking, and the certainty of the thing fpoken ; and he gives the curfe in two languages ( Greek and Syriack, which latter is a daughter of the Hebrew) both to Phew that men ofall Nations and Languages, who love not Christ, are under a curie; and that they are defervedly curled among all Nations. The Greeke word ufed by theApottle, Anathema, liignifes exe- crable. The Syriacke word Maranatha, is a compound of MaranLord, and Atha Fie cometh. This was ufed in the molt dreadful) fentence of Excommunication ; as if they had cited the perfon to the tribunali of Chrift at his coming to Judge the world , or left him bound under he curie ofthat fen- tau
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