CHAPoTo ·upon the Epiffleqf ]:& M B s. VERS.II. given him a great victory, _as Pf~d. 6? compare. t~e PiJlm_ with the title: So ,dsgood to thmk of famme and_want m the m:dCl: of plenty, aman doth not know w~ut over-turnings there may be in the world· rhe woman that fiood not in nee.d of the Prophet, 2 King. 4· ~ 3-. 1dwell am.~ng ~y,o~n pep pi~'. ·that is, I have no· netd of friend~at Court;. yet after:~ara il:9od mpeed of !he. 'J!ro– phets man, 2 King. 8. .5. The _Lord k1~owet~ h<i>~ foot:J_ y~:m.r con-~ dition may be turned , when 1t.fe,~me.~~ t~Jlour#fo, m,ojtl,J~ HJ~Y ~e1, neer a withering. ' . , · . • Verfe I r. For the Sun 'is nofoonerrt[en with a burning hea_t, but , it ~ithere..th the-graft-,\ and th"e flo!wet: ~hereof falltth, .. m-id .the· grace 'of'the.fafhion of it pJ~ifoeth; [o a'lfo . ' :Jhflll the-rich manfade 11.waj in hr~ ways•.. 1 · · • , ·fi~ p~rfue th -~he~GmiftH1d~''~rid ifi'l'6~·clofe'~r'ihe'Verfe ~pplieth it; There is not~-ing needeth il~ufir~tioq but die lafter cl;mfe. · e f foal! J ~hat is, fo may ; ' for the P,affage is not Jlffolutc!y de- . finztLve of what always foal/ "be, but onely declaratwe of what may be, and therefore the future tenfe is ufed for the Potential mooil :" We (ee, many times, That the wick.,ed live, hecome old, and mighty i?J power; their ho!ffes are fafe fro"! fear, neither is the rod of Cfod upon .th~m' .; .t~eir Bull gendcreth, and faileth not , their ·caw c.afveth, 1and .caft not her'Calf,· T~b ZI • . 7, 8, 9, 10. ·, · Therefore I fay, th~ ·Apofrle lh_ew<ith not "'fP~t always cometh to pafs, but what may ~e, and ufually falleth orit, and what atlength certainly will be their portion. . The rich man J That is either to be taken generally for the rich, whether godly or ungodly, or, more efpecially for the ungodly . pei:fon that uuil:eth in his riches. . . F~deaway] p.d..eg.v%(J's1ca, a word proper to he_rbs when they lofe their verdure and beauty. · In hu w~ys.J Some read, as Er(lfmm and Gag1Jem, C9 'il'oeke~ :Vith'his abu~dance, which reading CalvirJalfo approveth, as fuit. mgbetter Wlth the Context, So [hall the.rich and all hi! abund– anc~ f.,ode away; but the general and more received re~ding is that whtch we follow, C.V 'il'o~f'lc:u~, in his ways, oryournefs, the word is ef!Jpbf!tical, and importeth that earneft induil:ry by which men com)'/!Jfe ·Sea and Land, mri hither and thither in the purfuit of wealth,and yet,when all isdone,it fadeth like theflower of thegraft. L 2 The
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