·-------------------------- \'V--1-RS.2,j. now it burneth the Soul with dejires andcAres~ and hereafter ~/tb yLuk S. 14 defPair and remor{e ofConfcience; here Y piercedwith thorns, and 1 'fim 6.?. there fcorched with fires. Oh what an hard fervice have thde drudges of Satan 1 ~Are for the prefent,andhorror hereafter ! They labour and toy!, .and all that they may go to Hell with ju!l nothing. What do you gatnby Satan? Every finner is firfi taken inhufoares, and then bound in chains of dark..nifs ; but you above all others begin your Hell by eating ollt all your quiet with carking care, that .you may eternally undo your Souls with the more pains. Ye have heaped treafure for tht !aft days. J This claufe bath Utl– dergone fe\'eral Confiructions. Some by the !aft day underfl:and the latter part of their lives, as if the Apofile in this exprcffion did tax that carnal difl:ruft whtreby covetous men think they thall never have enough to fut1ice their needy old age : Such kind of men are always di.firnfHul of fucme events, and carking for the morrow; what lhull become of themand their children, and how they !hall live when they are old ; ajinful an:~:iety, however vailed under the appearance of 1fecejfiry: God gave the Ifraelites iWaniiAbut for Dne d~ty, and our Lord caught us to pray for dayly hread: Every days trouble is ordained by God for oar exercife, and is enough to take up our thoughts: vVe do buc anticipate our cares, and create a needlefs difl:ratl:ion to our felves, by carking for the !aft days; and .z Piu& 'lhtici yet ufually this difpofition increafeth with age, and z. the older men IJl~.crirur , q~to grow, the more folicitons- about worldly provifions. Thus fome "'! 111 M 5 r((tat rxpl:lin the Apo!Ue,but with little reafon; for 'tis not ade[cripti1n, 1/l.t. cncca. b h . d h A al . . . . h . d:r uva-t reAtenmg; an t e pone IS not now mumatmg t etr · ~ 1p6fition, but their judgment and ruise. Ochers expound the claufe ot treafuring and fioring up wrath againfi the teiay of Judgment; as the Apoille Pau/ufeth fuch anotherphrafe, Rom. z..;. Calvin in· clirieth eo this fence,becaufe of the former expreffiqn, jhall eatyot-~,. flefo M fire: and indeed Come Tranflations (as the Syriac and Ara· bick) read that claufe,M ftre,with this lafi fentence, You have treA– furcdup riches M it were fire for the lafl daJS; that is, as Diodati. expoundeth it, 'Wherem)8U thought to lay up tre~t[uresfor time to come, you fhali in ejfdl find that JIU hAve layed up Gsds WrAth. I confefs this is probable, becaufe of the particular allufion to their hoarding, and becaufeof the known refemblance betweenWrath and :1 treJZfure ; ~cis longagathering, but every day the fum increa.. feEh ; and the longer it is ere it be opened, the greater theheap.- . As
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