258 Ch.ap.3o. An Expojition upon the ßooz of Jo a. Verf.27. Anticipav Lord for ever, bec astfe they metyou not with bread and with water runt me. in the way tmben_yet came cut ofEgypt,&c. Now whether we read . ?obi text The days,: ofa qielion met mee or prevented mee , the f{uod a:ij di. r ' f fJ` P cunt Appre- fence is the fame, Impl} ing, that thofe &A}es of afil lion carne henderunt fomewhat unawares, or when he looked not for them, or when nie, minion e/t, he was looking,as he fyd in the former verle for other for better Nam verbam dues There are two forts of meeting, Fir ft,looked for; Second- Or gle pro ly,unlooked for ; oftentimes a friend meets us whom we thought pole e fgnificat f s j illom rarione?n not of and fo may an enemy ; The latter meeting is meant here. veniendi, ant Such meetings are uncomfortable preventings. ar'i urd atiod Some conceave lob (ayd, Thedayes of twillpreventedhim, be. fariendi " quod caule he met with thole evills in the befl of his Age which ulu. tempere Q`7 logo g , e¡t ante nos. ally come not till the latter end, or dole of a mans age. There are tome evills and sifti lions which are fo uluall in old age that they are even natural! or congenial( to it ; of thefe Solomon fpeakes and cautions young men, ( Eccl. 02. a. ) Remember now thyCreator in the dayes ofthyy teth,wkile she evill dayes come not, nor the yeares draw nigh, when thou ,Galt fay Ihave no pleafure in them. Let any man but live, and he (hall outlive his bodily alia paps and p'eafures. What can we expect tomeet with in old jam, qu.tia in age but paine a..d forrow ? When,as Solomon there Allegoriz th orate jam gran- the Sun, and the light, and the Moane, and the Saarres are dark- ac frigida ned, and the clouds rettsrne cafter the raine in the day when the kee- ai"nt"rPenes. of the house jhall tremble, and thefirong men Mall bow them. felver, &c. That is, when the powers of nature ¡hall inevitably fuffer an univerfsl decay ; What can any man (I fay) expert then but paine and forrow ? But when a man is in the be ofhis dayes, he looks for good dayes,and the continuance ofhis body- ly ftrength.Therefore 510b being broken-not only in hiseflate but in his ftrengch, being not only impoverifhed but pained and dif eafed, in the bell of his dayes, he might well fay The dayes of afiiffionhave preventedmee. iod bona-a Againe, Some read this in connection with the former verle, exyeftanti rri- as ifwhat he faith here, were an effect ofwhat he Paid thereiRe- bi evenit ma caufe when I looked forgood, evill came to me, and when I hoped canti lucemÿ e for light darknes came upon mee, therefore my bawds boiled within venir caligo ; mee, fo that they couldnot refs. Taking the text in this depen- vifcera rrea ef- dance fervefatlafont, , adout nonqui -. (Nerve a/taut. Jun. It
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