656 Chap. _24: An Expofition upon the look of JO B. Verf 24! ( l'fal. 37. to. ) Foryet a little while and the wickedAd tsa br, yea, thou (halt diligently eonRtes hid place, and he ;ball not be, that is,.he(hall not be in power,he (hall not Licurífh in worldly pompe many dayes. The birth ofhis ptofperity (hail not be farce in time from the death ofit,nor the grave ofall his glory from the cradle of it. So (Tfal. 8 5.)) Thou haft tn.zde him a little lower then the Angels; which prophecy of Chrift is cited (. Hob. Z. 7. ) Now Chrift was not made a little lower then the Angels in degree For he was the Lord of the Angels, and when God brought him hie firft: begotten into the world, he%yd, And let all the Angels r fGtd avt,rJbip him. But Chrift was made lower then the Angels for a little time; And fo we put in the Margin, Thoumad.fl him it lit- tle while inferior to the Angels. Namely, for the while or time when he was abafed by death and lay in the grave ; yet we may fay aifo that was Chrift made a little lower then the ',gilt in his taking upon him our nature; The Angelicall nature bung higher then the humane, as cot 'Acted in it felfe. We may expound the word here in eyther fence,tbey are exalted a little, that is,firft,tfey have a littleexaltation; fecondly, hors great (never we may con - ceave their exaltation to be, yet they are exalted but for a little while or time. We reftraine the word to this laft fence, as refer- ring to the (pace of time, wherein the wicked are aloft , They are exaltedfora little while. Hence obferve. The exalraticn ofwicked men Jf73ll not continue. They may be high built., but they have not a lure foundation, theymay floate aloft, but they have no confitlnce below, they are as vapours riling from the earth, or as meteors hanging in the ayre,both which are liftedup only fora little while,and are gone. Athanafxt faid concerning the wrathful reignof 7,4;4. the Apo- flare, Let au be quiet,lt is a little cloud which will [ore ppfíe away. Thewicked mans civil honor is but a vapcur(as the Apottle lames (peaks of the natural life of every man) that appearethfor a little tiaroe,and then vanifhcth away.The exaltation ofwicked men,is but for a little while,For, firft,their exaltation is ufuallybut for a part of their lives,and that the leffer part ; and that cannot (upon any reckoning) be more then a little while. Secondly, their longeft acrd outwit exaltation can bebut for their liv,s,and the whole life of
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