594 Char. 24. Expofition upon theBook of JOB. are the eyelids of the morning?yet light is a trouble,and the mor- ning a burden to wicked men. And ifnatural light be a trouble to them, much more is moral and fpirituall light. How doe they hate the morning of truth, the dawnings ofdivine knowledge ? Thefe lights to life,thefe enlivening lights are to them as the fha- dow ofdeath. In how deplorable a condition are they to whom Good becomes evill, and that which good men rejoyce in is to them an occafion offorrow. The whole courfe of nature is out of frame to us,till we are (et intoa right frame by grace. We put light for darknefle and darkneffe for light till we our felves are brought out of darknes into light. Nothing is good to uS till we are made good, nor doth any thing pleafe us, except fin or that which we ufe finfully, till we pleafe God. The very morning ( which gives a new life to all ) is to fome at the lhadowof death. if one know thern,thei are in the terrours ofthe Jhadowofdeath. Therewords are but a further explicationof the fame thing, if one, that is, ifany one, man, woman, or childe, as we fay, know them, thet is, take notice of them, in their wickedneffe, or take notice of their wickedneffe,they are (aswe fay) dead in the nefi. ov aPo:Lit Others render the words thus, if they know one another, that alms al;s,,;1, ifonly fomuch of the light of the morning breaks forth, as ferv.es 71,1te; them to fee one anothers faces, they are afraid. So this phrafe is tired (Ruh 3. 14.) vind thee lay at hit feete main the morning, andRice rofe top before one could knowanother, that is, before there was light enough to difcerne each other. So there two readings, ifone know /hem crif they know one another,meete in the fame Ge- nera! fence,their unwillingnes to be difcovercd at their worke ; if orce there be light enough for thefeevil-workers to fee them- fel ves by, they thenknow they may abbe fcene by others ; And ifone (any one )0ow them: They are in the terrours of the fhadow ofdeath. That is, they are troubled like them, who heikg ready to dye, are yet unwilling to dye ; when death {lands at a mans bed. fide, when death fiaradoat his backready to attach and apprehend him, ready to carry him away, while yet he is altogether unwilling andunready to dye,0 in what a terrour is he?Jufi thus it is(flith Iob) with ;lade wicked men , they are not only afraid to dye, but Verf.ty.
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