Chap. 21. r4n Expoftion upon the Book of J o B. Veti. 33. 835 What tell ye me (might fuch a man fay ) ofa pompous fune- si i zr út el: rall,which the wicked man (hail have when he dyeth,and that ¡xnä quod mo- the clods ofthe valley (hail be fweet to him ; When the man de .5e orr- is dead,what's all this to him? 7,6 anfwers ; What though the h,ç a lide-e. wickedman dye? there is nothing ofweight in that obje Lion vatabl, againft the pro`perity ofthe wicked ; For death is common to all, both good and bad. Death is not peculiar to wicked men; for righteous men dye too ; All menJhalt draw after him ; fo that there is nodifference in this between the godly and the uugodly, the holy, and prophane ; for all dye, or as the Scrip ture of the new Iellament affirms, It is appointedcanto all meal once to dye. That all men (hall dye, is a common theame; I (hall only touch alittle upon this wayof phrafingor expreffing it. Ali men ¡halldraw after him. Every man is dayly drawing to the grave ; dying is (as it were) a continuedad, What Pawl fpake in a fenfe proper to his own cafe, we may take in a common fence, Idye daily ; .and'tis appliable to all men, they dyedaily ; while one man dyeth,all mendraw after him.When a man is very (ick and dying, or lick todeath, when he hands (as it were) upon the bordersof death, or ( though I know that Scripture fpeech bath another meaning then here I ufe it for) between the living and the dead, as if it were hard to de- termine towhich of themmhe doth belong,whenhis breath fits wpon his lips ready to take its flight and be gone, then we fay, the man a drawing on;but we may fay it alfo of thofe who are not only alive but lively, not only ftrong, but in their full flrength, (as yob fpake before ) their breafisfall of milk, and their bones moyfined with marrow, we may fay it ofthofe that arewalking, riding, running, travailing in thehotted purfuit oftheir bufineffes, or pleafures, they are drawing on. Every living man is drawing onto death;and all menalive (hall draw after him, that is, already dead. Nor (bout(' it feeme ftrange, that all men who are (hould be drawing after in that way, which all men that ever were ( the excepted perlons are not confìderable for number ) have gone before, which yob gives us more fully in thenext words,
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