654 Chap. Za, An E.npoJr'ticn upon the Book,of j o a. Vert r` He 'hall live, and to him /hall bebrought ofthe gold "'Sheba, prayers ,fball daily be made to him, and daily /hall he be pr,*,i;ed; Chrift lives and reignes all his foes (hall be made his footítoole. WhenPaul fa;th (I 71:ef. 3. ß ) Now Ilive, ifyefaredAli in thefaith, he would have theTbeffalo;ians know, that his I ie would be a continual( death, if he raw them goe back in graced an8 decline in faith ; and that it would add joy,yea a crowne to his life, if they flood fall in the faith, and kept clofe to the pro- feftionof theGofpl. The two witneffes (Revel. a 1.8 )are laid to be fl pine ; which is underftood, not of a corporall,but ofa ci- vil; death. While the witrteffes ofChrift live in the bodie,tl.riy are laid to be flame and dead , becaufe they live in of Riot and troub'e; and as that Text fpeaks, prophecy in fackcloath ; that is , are Poore and low in the world. To be ftript of the . comforts and contentments of this life, is in Scipture lar. guage to be strips oflife it felfe. As there is a life ofgrace, and a livelineffe ofgrace ; A livinghope, and a lively hope (, Peter a. 4.) fo there is a life of nature, and the livelineffeof nature,: We may underftand this Text ofboth, fpecially of the latter ; 'tis more then'a wicked man canexpert, that he fhould live; but that he should be lively and ttrong,that he fhould live rich- ly comfortly, joyfully, this offend and flumbl:_s many, and they cannot but put 7 b's Cueftion, wherefore doe the wicked live ? yet that which follows offends more, they doenot one-- ly live, bile brc rote old. Thefeeond ftep of their profperitie is the length of life. Zo;thar (Cp. 2o. ) grants that a wicked man may triumph, -he may have his fill ofjoy, but (faith he) the triumphingof the wicked is (Bert, the job of the hypocrite ie butforamoment. Here oboppofeth Z -phar, atñrmirg not onely that wicked men live, but live long,they doe. not onely profper, but profper ma- ny yeares,they become old in profperitie. The word, which we render to become old, lignifies fo to becomeold, as to continue :15rw ve,er.a f ftroÌng in old age, and to have as a renewing of. yeares, fo rrf ,e feaefceu. abilities. The old age offorce men is nothing but weakneffe, à :6rmitie and dufeafesover take them, and make their lives. a -burden bath to themfelves and their friends ; hut others-are ftrong and Ink', they have a go. .d old age. The word is tired to pre( e the antiq Title ()LC him(elfe ( Dan. 7. 9.) where lie
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