666 Chap.'24. An Expafftion tapon the Rook of Jo B. Verf,24;. Make anfwer ; They fballbe taken away as allothers, even as the weakenand the m.eane 1 in the world ; it puts God to no more trouble, to pull the ftrongeft Princes out of their Pallaces, Forts, Or Cafiles, when they (land in his way& - hinder-his. detignrs,then, to.turne a begcar out ofhis cotrag , or houle of Hurdles Such a leorne is put upon the King ofßabylon. (Lfa. 14. 10 ) All they fbali(peché, and fay onto thee, Art thinalfa become weake as we ? as t thon become1,k: onto no.?Thou thoughteft thy felfe impregna, ble in power, and thou didfl looke upon us as contemptible weak. hut now thou art become. weake as we. While God him, felfe- Ipeakes great things ofplagiftrates, and lifts them up as it were beyond the flare of man, he yet wish the fame breath,makes. Y=-:om iu one thing tout pirate) with all other men; ye rule or have 'power over others life God, but. in your (elves ye arras weake and mortal as.any other fort-ofmen (Pf,8z 6.)Z.haveJài,i ye are Cods, andall of you are children of the moft high. but, ye 1hall dye like men, like the common fort ofmen, and ye , allfall lihe one of the Princes Or rather, by much, ás-fome render the Hebrew,and. 'rre Princes f all dye as one, or, mi any one ; that is,as any ordinary an ; [or indeed there appeares no argument in the words reach, ng the (cope ofthe place, according to our tranflation, to fay-, what M igillrAtes (hallfilllike one of the Trines, is noabatement r , them;but to fay,Princes fhall fall like any one,is a-great abate.- Merit and fall to them, and frilly reacheth the fence of the prefent obervation, Secondly Thefe words, ar allothers, are expounded of other ?arñs, that is, as al worldly things. Hence Note, Olean ín ioùsgreatrJl enjoyments téin euptrifdng a condition a any thing he in oyetb, Worldly men'are as vain and tranfitory, asworldly thingsare, They are as bone gone astheir riches, or their honours,or what- foeverthey moll d.efired,or- trufted to here below. That which they have is perilhing, and fo are they.too., Chrift calleth all the things of the world, mente that ptrifð, (Joh,6.27.) The wick ed man that' perifh and be takenaway,as all perilbing things are, .44t04,s:, ?e. uponwhich he lets his heart,or which he bath in his hand.We are ritor.aleriutri, aiwayes dying,and fo is all that wehave,oucs are dying comforts, dying
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