Chap. 3°. An expo;átion ttpon the Book of J o B. Verf. 2. 27 or they had but a miferabie old age , they had only the dregs, theworft ofold age when theywere old. Old age is perifhed in thofewho either dye before they are old, or living to old age, are lame, blinde, weake, or unfit for any fervice : in Tome, old age flourifheth,in others old age perifheth, they not having that vigor which appeares and ads inmany old men. Secondly , The word rendred oldage, may he taken for time p,0 Teespore in general!, and the Teat rendred thus, in whom time is peril?sed ; r+ rpl'cit't ex- that is, who have miferably (pent and out-worne their rime; pon bbiLe- they were fuck a generation of wretches, that they wafted and bar a,: ill s tem- lavifht out all their dates partly in Idlenes , doing nothing, tut, i e. müeri partly in wickedneffe, doing that which is worfe then nothing rem perde- they might well be laid not to have livedat all, becaufe not to bout rgtavta any purpolè. This Interpretation hiss or lutes theCharater of d7 inertia. vile perlons very fitly, they doe not redeeme time, as the Apoftie exhorterh Saints to doe, but utterly loofe and lavifh it quite away. They are prodigals who waft their Rate, but they more, whowaft their tine. Thi-diy, The Septuagint render the Text, (as they often i r'au?es Ole "where doe) with too g. eat a liberty of variation from the wee s10 cuv7í- Original ; Whereto ( fay they) could theffrength cf their NandiÀ bat 3 fuper roc confum- pr.fit me, in whom perfection was peri/hed." Which- may imply, perr matioquafi fu either the perfe&ion of their perlons, or the perfection oftheir min nane id flare. To which latter fence, Tome incline; As if he had fayd, valet o v7í. They were men fo socre and low, that all the beauty of their out- Tex. wardMane was gone, they were deftlente ofall things needfull and b' neceffz'ryfor mars life, or for a Comfortable tub /ifence. So the rrs roi;r, words are a defcription oftheir poverty, as noting them a cowl- -piny of beggarly varlets, whohad nothing:left to maintains 1 ife,.9uicquid ad or to liveupon : but I af e this. tam facit. P P' S tnmach. Fourthly, We may alto take old age here, ftri&ly and pre- y cifely for the later part or end of their or any mans life ; and then the fence of the words (inwhom old age was perilied) is plainly this ; They werefetch as never arrived at old age, or they never came to be old men, their lulls confumed then, and they were Cut offeyther by, or for their wickedneffe (Pfal.gg.nit.) Bloody and deceitfull men (ball not liveout halfe their days. Old age mull needs perifh in them, who dye in the midst of their dayes, and fo never live unto it. As the deboyfhery of tome E a young
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