766 Chap. 2r, An Expofition upon the Book of J o a. Verf.23 As the perlons ofgood and evil men are mingled in the world, fo an are their conditions. Good men Puffer evill, and evil! men inoy good : and again, good men receive good, and evil men endure evil!. Thus yob holds forth the libertywhich God ufeth as to thediflribution of temporal( good and evil!, both to the evil! and the good. So that he will not let us know live or hatredby any thing that id before ose. One dyeth in hisfullflrength. y He dyeth not only firong, but in theflrength of his perfeeii- 1t11 en, fo we read in the margen, The per`ec`tion of every thing is In robore Pe-fe the flrength of it ; And he is thong indeed who is in the i+cnir axe in. flrength of his perfection. Thegory cf young men is their tegriirirRfae. ftrength. One dyeth at the height and topof this glory. The fur vu lg. Septuagint render the Original word which fig,zïfieth perfefli- e'v x,p Ter on, byfimplicity ; that which is Pimple is perfe&, Godwho is AT? on...; rrs molt fimpie is moll perfect, the fimplicity ofGod is the glory ausú V. Sept. ofhis perfection. One dyeth in the flrength hie iiroplicity ; that is, when the health ofhis body or his coaftitution is ( as it were) unmixed, or not mixed with any difeafe,as allo when hisoutward Elate is not mixed with any trouble; he dyeth in the flrength ofthis double fimprlicity;when as it were nothing unlike ftrength, nothingunlike profperity bath fomuch as fit its foot within his borders : when his light fhines fo cleare, that there is no appearanceof darkneffe in ir, and when his comforts are fopure, that he bath no acquaintance with that thing calledfarrow ; When he hath not a cloud in his day, nor any tat ofbitternefTe in his cup, then, even then in that ftrength ofhis fimplicity he dyeth.Someofthe Greeks(' cone feffe)cake the word (implicit) in the worft fenfe rendring thus; He 'halldye in thefirengtb ofhiefolly : but I leave that under the cenfure of at lealt an unwary tranflation and waving that altowhichI mentioned laft before, (hall infili only upon our own. One dyeth in hiefullflrengtb: Which we may ex- pound in the latitude ofa threefold tïrergth. Firft,In the f rength ofhid body,when hebath perfect health, and not only health, but much ftrength with it, Tome have health, who yet have but little ftrength. Secondly , In the ftrengthof his outwarddate, ofriches and g'M Xfu?6t ddpo7ovrrs.
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