6zo. Chip. 24. An Expoftion upon ttoeBookefJOB. Verf. ¡9, tholewho fin according to comtraon"fraylety, but of thofe who fin with a high hard crbftinately.Sdch he means,even oppreffoursi adulterers, murtherers, of whom he fpake by name before there and fu& as there are the finners whom he intends,while he faith, !fokilt thegrave theft that have finned. And it be faid, fo doth thegrave thole that (in this fence) have not_Pinned. I anfwer, The Grave is faid in a fpeciall manner to confume thole who have thus finned. Firft, B:cau°fe fuch finners doe more tub?eft and lay them- `el ies open todeath,by their wicked courfes and intemperate li- ving. Such linnets fpoyte their bodies and corrupt their bloody they fill themfelves with &(cafes, which bring them early to the Grave. Secondly, Becaufe God doth often cut the thread of loch mens lives when they are ftrong and healthy, and tumbles t?aem into the graves mouth to be conlumed,before they have livedout halfe their dayes. Thewords being thusopened, fall under a twofold interpreta tion. Firíi, As im plying the felicity (fuch as it is) of wicked men in dying, or the eatnef e oftheir death as they live in pleafure, fo they dye without paine. That's a poynt infifted upon at the Mrr'aanrur fa-13tá verle of the z1.13 Chapter, They [pend their dayes in wealth, coiiooß ,fry lua- and in a moment (or with eafe) they goe down to thegrave. And vi me, tra ua sgaine (ver.32,3 3. ) He"hall be 6rangbt to thegrave , the cloda concid olorir,,. b fhewes that wicked crraciatä<; fna ofthe valley 'hall be/weet untohim.lVherc Yo a,:r, non- lerne men have asmuch cafe in death as others,and many times a great motto conrabef-deale more. They dye in II moment, not t) red out with the tor- c nr tit rnagraa titre of chrorital difeafes, but having a quicke and fpeedy paf ere probe rageout of the world, are diffolved even as the fnow is by the r;c bebrait alt- beate and warmth of the Sunne. This fence Tome of note infift ojei pavan/ isdi chieflyupon, as molt fuitable to 7ods fcope indefcribing the cor- er:1i ten f r>'am porali, and temporall felicity ofwicked men, even indeath,which mortero àmpio. carries the greateft appearance of terrorand trouble in it. ream, yua rur er irfenffbi. But I rather take there .words as a defcripcion of the tiferable titer ligaúfrane,end and fad tonelufion of a wicked man. For the word which t.e. Pined : we render, to confnene, fignifies a forceable fwallowiag downer a kind of devouring,which doth not confiit with that other ex- plication. Drought
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