Chap. 24. 44EzPfition up-an the Book of J OB. Verf. 20 627 him while he Iived,& fo it was little forrow ro thenwhen he dy ed.Some men live til their friends are weary of them,& every one 41arer qur'a a thinks the world is well ridofthemwhin they dye.Secondly,7hev`v: n,folat , wome fhallfeed rweetly on /aim, that is, as he fed (weedy upon fin neqpro nro-rua before , fonow the worme (hall have a fweete morfelt of hira ; ampirat angï' Which fome interpret alto as acircumlocutionof an ignominious tü.. or at Iealt a vulgar buryal; as ifhe had faid,he (hall not have the buryal of the noble and honourable,who ufually are fecured from wormes by fpices and irnbalmingc ( fpice and perfume fence the dead body againft the worme) But though he livedhonourably, death fhall overtake him, and he (hall be buryed ignominioufly, or he (hail be buryed among common men,he (hall not have that priviledge whichappertaines to his (fate, prefervation from the worrnes, And (which is a greater mifery then both the former) Thirdly,Helhall be no mors remembred,that is,he !hall be no more fpokenof withhonour, but his name (hall rotas a man that is not worth the remembring. Hisname (hall not be regifterd with ho- nour, nor kept upon the file, with men ofcredit and rtnowne. So that a; the fir(( part of the verfe fhewes how his neereft relati- ons and lovers (hall forget him, fo this latter part fhewes that be 'hall be remembred no moreof any others. The Originall word whichwe tranflate to remember, taken in '°'°'f e- other formes, lignifies a hiftory,or a monument of record;as alto c erar.j z :chro= a recorder or rc ifter who writes and fers down things for me- mory. r,rh, memorïw g h.¡foria, menu And hence alfo a manchilde in the Hebrew is called Z2° manta, ;achar, ckar,becaufe the family is reckoned by the males, they only being Matculus. named in genallogyes, and regiftred in the monuments of anti- quity : fo that thefe words, He 'hall be no more remembred, found thus much,he (hall be a man whole name is quite blotted or rafed out ofall memorialls And This cork of beingno more remembred, may be taken as was intimated before, eich r firft abfolutely, he (hall not be thought of,named,or remembred at all, or fecosdly, relatively,he (hall no more be remembred wich honour, his name will finell work then his rotten carkafTe when he is dead , and whenfoever he is mentioned, it will be like rakeing in a dunghill which raifeth up a filthy (tench and vapour. Poílihly while he li- ved he was fpoken ofwith honour, he had many flatterers, who crept to him, bowed to him, adored him, and calledhim a graci- ous Lord,bue when he dycthbis reputation`dyeth too, he (hall he L1112 no
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