Clap: 24. An Expofftien upon.the Berke( JOB. Vert. 22. 641 will we tread there under that rife eopagair.(f eu [he wicked op- preffor, in the text, ri(etb up in all thefe fences : He rifetk up to ffand, or to fettleand eltabl fh hirufelle, to take good footing, and lay agood foundation Í)r the perpetuatingof his greatneffe. fecondly, he ri:erh up to higher honour; thirdly,havm thus fet- led rid advanced himfelfe, he rifethup as an enemy to vexe all thofe who oppofe himor Rand in his way ; fourthly, fome give another fenceof this aâion; Fire rifeth up .rf$andetb. What todoe ? even tomake faire proenifes, and to enter en- gagementswhat good he will do,and how good he will be, when as hi intendsall thefe things to bebut fnares tofaith others, not at all to be as bonds to ty himfelfe, which fuitesand falls in fully with the left words of the verle; and so wan isfare of his life. TheHebrew is plurall, No maps is fare of bis liver. As if he No fidere vita bad laid, if a man had an hundred lives he could be Pure of e/I arnbigere de none of them, or he could net be lure of one of them, when vita,fpe abjelia this man rifeth up. The forme of (peaking here ufed; 2l man omnibus circa. wfare ofhis life, or, Iri&1 to the letter of the Hebrew, a llaeràjs moneat y denunciaatibsrt. roan can tonfi er below fer bas life, imparts a man brought into .luch a dangerous and uncertainecondition, that hebath no bold (asit were) ofhis own life, nor doth he fee any teafon to beleeve, thatbecan bold it long, every thing about hire carrying the face, and denouncing threats ofdeath. So that it may be laid ofaman in that date, as Paulfaid ofhimfelfe (2Cor. t .9 ) I receivedeke fentenceofdeath in noy felfe; he that is not lure ofhis life, bath upon the mattera fentence ofdeath inhim. Mefes de- fcribeth filch a Rate, (Deut.28.66.) Thy life (ball bang in doubt before thee, andthou /halt fear day andnight, and thou (halt have naafssranceof thy life; As ifhe had laid, .thou ¡halt not be able to call thy life thine own,nor to fay in whole keeping it will bean honre hence ; Ta ¡hall hangbefore thee as a thing whichtwo are contending andRriving for,andno man can determine who is like tobe mailer ofit. The life of man doth or ought alwayes to bang indoubt beforehim, andhe can have no affurance of it, whether we relpeek thecommon frayletyof nature, which eon cernes everymanor the fpeciall purpofeor appoyntment ofGod N u n n which
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