;6 Chap. 2o. An Expoftion upon the Boot¿ of I 0B. Vert i t cafes. Thus the prolperous efiate'of a wicked man is fiat bro. ken ; fecondly, his children (hall be poorer then the poor : third- ly, his body, or bones arefall ofthe fans ofhis youth : The mil-c- ry of the wicked man is here let forth from the cauce ofit, The fursof hisyouth. The Allufion Rands thus, That look as a de- boift youngman by his wanton and riotous courfes gets bodily difeáfes which ¡bah into his bones, and fuck out his marrow : So the judgements of God ofany kind confume and watt all the comforts of a wicked man, which together with hia wickedneffe followor rather drive himout of the world. Oj e'ltu rep'e- The original]. runs thus ; His bonesare full cf big youth, or of érunrxr bis youths. The word is plural', and in propriety lìgnifies to ado'efcenti4 i.e. Ï : p p Y b psnis pat fibi hide, or to lie hid. For youth or young men come not abroad fceleribiu ado to afilion, but are kept close in their fathcrs heures, or in Schools lofcenria "Pi' of learning and education. When he faith, Hú bones arefull of Air. Bez. hisyouth, the meaning is, they are full of thole miferies and for- eut rei rows, which the ins of his youth have deferved and acquired. ra funt ejut oc- Upon this account force render the Text thus, His bones arefull .cultif. Mont. of his ferrets that is, ofhis fecret fins : Man commits many fins in ferret, the world takes no notice ofthem, and his fin may lie long in ferret, as fecretly as the marrow lyeth in his bones, though indeed, it be not marrow but rottenneffe and poyfon its his bones. Theword is ufed (Tfit/. 9o. 8.) Where idofes thus complaineth, Thou haft fee our iniquity before thee, andour fe- cretfins (or fins ofyouth) in the light of thy countenance; That :is, Thou feemefi to callus to an account for the fins of our youth, or for our fecret fins, thole fins whichhave laine in the dark, arenot onely brought to light, but let in the light, and. that not one]., in the light of mans knowledge, but in the light of the knowledge ofGod. As itis our highefi mercywhen Goth lifts up the light ofhis countenance uponour perlons, to it is out faddeft afffic` ion, or fore - runner of very 'fad afflictions when "God lets our fecret fins, or the finsof our youth in the light-of his countenance ; fo that in either reading the meaning is the fame. There is á twofold expofitionofthele words, force referring :theta to the punifhment of this wicked man, others to a further defcriptionofhis fin ; we maytake it in both : Mr. Broughtont tanttat on gives this as a defcriptionof the punifhment ofthis wicked
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