464 Chap.20. An Expofationupon the Book of J.OB. Vert. 7. word carrieth total! periling as we'l as the adjunft of time, for ever, fpeakes it fnall. Theword comes from a root fgni- lying toovercome. For ever overcomes all. That which pe- rifbeth for ever,can never be recovered from periling. All (hall be loft, and it (hall be alwayes !oft, his wound (hall know ofno healing. He perifh, net to a not being, but from being what once he was, He (hall neither be, -nor be any more accounted, happie. And as he ,fha.11 perifh utterly, fo he (hall perifh barely, not onely (hall mifery be upon him, but contempt; He fhallperiJh Like his owne dung. '6'111'13 fieran And becaufe the word which we render dung,figni resto turn convotnione. or roil together, in its originali. Therefore force eranflate here, Hefhall perifh,asfoen as tssrnedabout. Mr. 'Broughton gives that fence, rendring thus ; Turning a little hefadsfor ever. But our reading bath a fuller, though that allo bath a:true, fence in it. He ¡hall periJh like his ownedung. What is more bate thendung Becaufe Idols or falfe Gods are the bafelt and molt abominable things in the world, they are therefore expreffed by this word in theHebrew; As if we Ihould:call them,'Dung_ gods, or ftink- ing dunghill gods, fit onlyto be throwne away, and fhoveld outof the world. For nothing makes a thing indeed fo bad as an ambition that it (hould be accounted that which is belt, when it bath not the leaft good in it. An Idol is accounted God, who is the highel and infinitely the moil perfedt being, when as in truth, it bath no being at all, or is as the Apoft.e fpeakethnothing in the world. And hence alforhypocrifia is jufily called the worlt offins, becaufe it would be taken for grace, or reckoned for that which is the gathering together ofall Graces, Holines.Now as the Scripture calleth Idols dung, com- pared withGod, or as being honouree .( towhom they are fo unlike ) with the like priviledges of wo'rfhip and dependance as God is : fo, all- our reali inherent righteoufneffe, yea all things compared with Chrilt and our union with him upon Gofpel Termes, are alfocalled dung ( Phil. 3, 8, 9.) When the Apoftle would teflifie with what holy indignation he rejeaed aloft things which weregood in themfelves, when joyned with end taken in as a.fupplement to the pure worthines of-aria for
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