558 Chap.e9. An Expoftion repos the Book of Jo B. Verf, 18 they are alike in the reach of God, and he can quickly bring them and their nef+,not only into the hand, but under the foot.sof man. Tnus the Lord rebukes the prefumptucus fecurity of Edam in the 3d and 4th verfes of the Propbefie ofOAadiab ;The pride of thy heart bath deceived thce,tbou that dwele/t in theClefts ofthe rock,whofe habitation is high,that faith in his heart,>;pho fhafi bring me down to the ground ? Though thou exalt tbyfell as the Eagle, andJet tby nefI among the flars, that is, though thou puttef+ thy felt into the fafeft place,and thinkeft thy nett to be as much bov any earthly annoyance as the Starts of heaven ; yet thence will 1 breng thee down, So then,when fob hoped to dye in his net+, he hoped to die in a high and fafe condition, in allufion to Birds who dye in their netts. Some birds are (hot, and fotne are taken and enfnared by the fowler ; others are devoured by birds of prey ; the Kite,the Hawk,or the Vulture catches tbem:but many Birds dye in their nett,and Job hoped, yea was much perfwaded he fhould dye like one of them. Then Ifail I /ball dye to my neff, Hence obferve, ñrtt, Agodly man thinks ofdying while be is in tbegreatefl profperi- ty of living. Job had great hope to dye in his nett, but he had nohope nor thought but todye ;'hat's a great truth, though Apocryphal Scrip- ture (Ecc!. 41.1.) 0death, bowbitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that is at re/k In lair poffef ions,unta the man that bathno- thing tovexbun, and that bath profpertty inall things ; yea, unto bim that yet is able to receive meat. 'Tis aKind of death to a vvordly man at ref+ in his poffeffions to think of dying he bath no content but to think of building, and taking plcafure in his nett, he is a f+ranger to thoughts of dying in his nett.But to a god- ly man the remembrance of death isfweet,even whilehe is 2C ref+ in his poffellions; he is willing tomeditate of death or aotually,to dye;not only when be fcarce knows how to live,but when he bath abundance of the things of this life about him. Some who have had as much for this life as they could have,even then,defired (if God faw it good) to depart out of this life. And every godly man (out of the cafe of temptation) can ch earfuily think and fpeak of death, yea and obediently fubmit to the call of God ro dye, when he bath the Pullet+ and freeft enjoymentsof this lice. Secondly,
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