618 Chap. 24. An Expojtion :To the BookofJOB. Verf. 20a no more remembredwith honour; when any man ce,feth to be re- a®rcrnbred as he once u^ , be may belaid not to be remembred at ail. The wort£ and wickedett men that ever were in theworld may be till remembred, but when they are remembred it is with forme marke of infamie,er with a blacke brand upon their name. Hence note. _Pict ro he reenenthredat all when Ire are dead, or tote remembred withdilhenour, is the portion of the wicked. Many precious Saints have both lived in obfcurity and being dead 'cis fcarce remembred that they ever lived, but noneof . ire knowneSaints did ever live in difgrace (unlefFe in their opinion who ! ad no grace) and being dead they are remembred by all ( who have grace) with honour. But They whohave beenmoil famousfor wickednee while they lived in this world,che aloft fat mods oppreffouro, adulterers,and robbers, have dyed uiudeí eyed, and their name bath rotted being dead ( Pray. ro 7.) David (Plal. 69.28.) powreth out this curfe upon his enemies, Let them be blottedout of the Bookie of the living, and not remembred among the righteous. The ¡ewes were wont tonumber their fami- Iyes, and to take their names ; fo they did when theycame out of Egypt. In which fence the bookeof numbers mg be called, The booke of the living ; and we may take the booke of the living in a double notion, eyther frtt for the booke ofthole who lived na- turally, or fecondly, ofthofe who lived fpiritually, and fowere Inch as Ilaould live eternally (Thil.4..3, Rev 3.5.) David feerges to intend this book ofthe living,becaufehe addeth,let them not be remembred among the righteous. As if he had laid , Thefe men made an outwardprofeffion and Teemed once to be in the lift and catalogue of therighteous, they had once an etteeme and a name among the people ofGod(as all hypocrites have till they are un. masked) but they have difcovered thetnfelves to be of another alliance, therefore let them be no morenamed norremensbred as having any relation to that fociety. Thus we may interpret that imprecation oft Mefes (Ex.d.32.; 2.) when the Lords wrath waxed hot againtt the people of Ifrael ;andwould have deEtroyed them, Ma/es prayed, Yet now if thou wilt forgive their fin, ana if not,blot me I pray theeout ofthe beoke which thou haft written, that bd out ofthe bookewhich thou haft commanded tobe written as are-
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