626 Chap. 24. An Expeirion open the BookofJOB. Verf. 2 O. when he dyes to admioiiter matter of difcourfe concerning him : for when a man iscut off by forne remarkable íiroak of Judgment either from the hand of God or man, his death becomes the dui.- cow fe and Table talke of all forts of men, for that generation at leafi,if not for many more.VVhat bath caufed Korab, Darban,and A6iram;to be remembred to this da ;;,was it not the ftrangenesof their deans ? ( t 4.29,3e) ) Andefríofes Paid, ì f thtfe men dye the common deathofafi men, or if sbey be vifsted after the vife- ration of all men, then the LorAbath not fens me; bu: ifthe Lord make a new thing, andthe earth open her srscutb, and fwaflaw them up;&c.This dreadful hand ofGod upon them in fwallowing them up alive,hath made them to be remembred more then many thcu- finds ofhoneft and good men in'Ifrail, who dyed in their beds. Upon this account Ananias and Saphira are remembred,and fo is That Herd ( A&. r 2.23.) who was eaten of WOrmes andgave up sloe gbh f ,becasefe he gave not glory unto god. But faith lob (accor- ding to this expolition ) the wicked mans death is commonly fo . fayre,& fo much after the common death ofall men,that no man remembers him any more. And cked:vff: fbadbe broken as a tree. That is,the wicked man (hall dye likean old rotten trec,he (hall moulder away and decayby piecemeale, or gradually, As a tree loth which is never hewers downe, but is fuffered towaft and dye alone. Thus the interpretation is carried through the whole verfe, as a proofe, that bad men may (in this kinde) have a good death. But though this be a truth , and fuites well with lobs fcope in forne paffages of t:5is Chapter, as allo in other paffages of this booke, that wicked men dye 83 to outward appearance as fairely, and fvectly, asthe godly, fo th It as no man knoweth Lye, or ha- tred by all tkat isbefore h nt,but all things (in this life } comealike to a11; There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked(Ecc1:9. r, 2.) So all things come alike to all in death, fo far as it meere- tyconcérnes the feparation offoule and body ; yet I rather con- ceive that this verfe declares wrath and judgment to wicked men d ing,or their mifery and wrerchedneffe in death. And therefore fill, the wowbe,that is,his neereft relations, and friends, even his rnother,and wife,fbtit forget him. They cxpeftcd no good from him.
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