45ö Chap. 24. An ExpoJition upon theBook of JO 3. inert; 24. ring Sunne. We may fay ofall the glory of the wicked, as the fame Prophet Hofea faith of Ephraim ( Chap, 9. i t. ) i,r for Ephraim, theirglory fl,all feeaway like a birdfront the birth, and from the womb, and from the core pticn ; that is, it ¢hall quickly de- part ; by their glory, fom and erttard their children ; As if he had faid, Their children ¢hall fief. from the birth; that is, if born alive they fh ¡lid) aas foon tis b erne ; Their children Ad fleefrom the wombe, that is, they (hall not be borne alive, they thanbe abet- five ; 7 -heir children /ball Pe from the conception; that is, they than no be fo much as conceived. We may read the Prophet backward, nd beginning with the left firft,fay;Theirglory,that is,, their chiidren, it whattoevcr elk they glory in and mçke chèit glory, ¡hallfie fronoconeepticn; that is, it that!.not b conceaved, or have any being at all, and if coñceived and fo have a being yet: it'hallfiefrom thexsoarb, chat is, it (ball- never come toe com- pleat being, but mar:'din the making ; or if it be borne and fo havea perfeclbeing, yet it fbahí fleefrom the birth, that is, it íhaII dye as Toone as burn,and come co its grave in Deadofor as foon as to acradle. Thus he describes theevil/ that (hall come upon all their glory, it (hall fuddenly fly away, and this fpo} les the beauty ofail rhar earthy gory, with which thewicked Thine; They are exaltedf,r a little wn=le. This (uddain vani(hing ofthe wicked mans glory is further defcribed in foure expreflions ; fir ft, they are ; fecondly, brought l'.w; thirdly, they are takenout cf the Bray, fourthly, they arecur if the top of the caret of Corne, t non ipf . Fu ft, They aregone ; the T.-h breve is, they are not ; this kinde Fleb. ;, f. non of `peaking is ufed to figrefie a total nrutter perifbing. They are uuat i;,or;t, hac fo gone, as if they had loft not onely their exiftence but their ef- clkendi fornn a fence. The original tc xt ie ftngular ; They are exalted, and be is jò!ent tte5r t not or, he not; hedoth not fay, they not, but be not ; lob than eth mnnr.vo de/0,w the nus:b.r fromThey to He, to lignifie that every oneof them is xt perir.t'ine,'. nçr, or that, not any one of;km ss. God will dale thus with every tktuta p-arale fingle man of them, be u not ; we lay, They aregone; they that in fo lacent e t goo cut done condition into another, are not as they were, and f Y facet q"'"' as to their former Date, they are not et all. They who goo from. [thee ear n in" lace to lace from flare to Dare, though from a flare of life to a teriré. D ur. p P g' Tronomen fin- Deeofdeath, havea ()tire; and therefore we tra-.flate wel, not to err/Je t:,m vrn be, by, to begone. Some re ,d the words thus ; They are exalted, ptu>a!t "at andwithina little while theyare not; we fay' they are exalted a lit- tia
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