Chap. 28. afLs Expofition upon the Book of ] o B. Verf.2 2. 301 and reafon to them , who once lived in the fpheare of reafon, though now among the dead. And fo when Job b: ings in Ds- ffrs Eltonand deatb,faying,wehave beard the fame thereof ; Ir is as if be had faid ; If you go and enquire of thedead,evenofallthat haveheretofore lived upon the faceof the earth, but now aredead and gone,all that they can give in anfwver to this great enquiry,amounts only to thus much, which indeed is very little, we have heard the fame thereof with our cares. Secondly,Some by deflruïtion anddeatb,underfland the wicked, that arenot only dead but damned, men call into the lowefl pit, and burycd in utter in everlafling defiru6lion. Thefewhile they converfed in the world, met fometimes with difcourfes and re- ports of theunfearchable judgements and vrifdomof God,the im- preffons whereof are not quite worn our, no not in hell. And therefore, enquire of and examine them, and they will bear wit- aiefs, that they haveheard of fuch a thing, but further they can- notfay. Thirdly, Others, by the word deflruEtion, underfland all that are in hell, and by death, all the Saints departed and in heaven. And fo we have the dead of both flares in this text, good and bad, b;efted and miferable. Inquire of either, and what will they an- fiver; We have heard the fame thereof. Fourrhly, The three forts of rational creatures are fuppofed to be fpoken of by Sob in this conxxt ; and the wort+ of them in the lafl.As when he faith,Wifdom ir bid from the eyes of all living, he intends it of mankind;"aihen he faith,it is kept cloft from thefowl: of theayr, he intends it of the Good Angels ; Arad when he adds, Deftruation and deathfay, we have heard the fame thereof, he in- tends it of the Devils,or evil Angels, who being furthef+ removed from God, by reafon of their defperate wickednefs, have only heard a bruit or a rumour of wifdomes excellency, but have no knowledge at all of ir. Laff1y , I rather dolewith that interp-eration which afferteth that by def ruEl:ion and death we are to Lindell/Ind, all things crea- ted and pall ; As if he had raid, As this wi fdom is not nor; known in the prefent age, fo neither was it by any heretofore.So that if nei- ther they who now live, nor they who lived in former times, but are dead and gone, knew ir, then it is altogether unknown, or none at all know ir. And the u n oft report that any could make Perditio Q'?' mort i, e. per- diti homine cito mortui. Janfan. Aquino: in locum.
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