campliſh:d, to wit, by any meer man, for himlelt or for his Bro- ther- Ss 11.89.43, 9 That he ſbould ſtill live for ever,ond * not ſee cor- ; raption r. : ; Or zhePit, orthe Grave, i. e. Not dye, as that Phraſe is oft u- ſed, as hath been noted before. ; : ; | ed, 22 10 For he ſeeth 5 that * wiſe men die, likewiſe the th fool and the brutiſh perſon periſh z, and leave their wealth to: others «, | =: s An imperſonal expreffion: Every man ſees and knows it 3 it 15 viſible and evident, both from Reaſon and from univerſal Expe- rience. # All men die without any difference between wiſe and fools, good and bad. uv He ſaith not, to Sonsor Kindred 3 but in- definitely, to others, becauſe he is wholly uncertain to whom he ſhall-leave them, tro Friends, or Strangers, or Enemies 3 which he meations as a great Vanity in Riches, They neither can ſave them from Death,nor will accompany him in and after Death, and
after his Death will be diſpoſed, he knows not how nor to whom, f
11 Their inward thought 5s x, that their houſes y + cbs 9 ſha continue for ever 2, and their dwelling places t
6mrrari' 'oQ all generations ; they call rbeir lands after their own a6 names 4 |
_ x [ſhough they are aſhamed to expreſs it, yet it is their ſecret 0- pinion and hope, and wiſh, y Either, 1. Their poſterity, oft cal- led mens Houſes, as 2 Sam. 7. 11, &c, Pſal. 113. g. and 115. x2. Or 2, Their Manfion*»Houſes, as it is explained in the next / Clauſe, which alſo ſerve tor this purpoſe, to preſerve a mans name for * eyer. 7 Not tathemin their own perſons. but to them apd theirs in ſuccceding Generations, as it follows, a Fondly dreaming by this means to immortalize their Names and Memories,
9182.7. 12 Nevertheleſs + * man being in honour c abideth
not 4: he is like the beaſts that periſh e, | b Notwithſtanding all thele fine fancies and devices, c Living in : all the ſplendour and glory above mentioned- d The Hebrew word properly ſignifies to loage for a Night, as Gen. 32: 21. Judges 19. 40. and thence to abide for a lang or conſiderable time, as ?ſal, 25, 13. and 55, 7. Prov. I5- Zts All his Dreams of perpetuating his Name and iitate. ſhal vaniſh ad be confuted by Experience, e (4, e. That are utterly loft and extin, So he is in reference to all his Wealth and Honour. of which he here ſpeaks, 13 This their way f 45 their folly g ; yet their poſte- 4% de. rity {| Approve their ſayings b. Selah. Jed, f i, e. Their Counſel and Contrivance to immortalize themſelyes- lg? - £ Though to themſelves and ſome others it ſcem to be wiſdom, yet _ in truth it is apparent folly and madnieſs. For they neither obtain _ that immortal Name which they ſeek and hope for : Nor if they do doth it yield them any comfort or benefit; h Heb therr Mouth, C i. e._) their Counſels and Suggeſtions which they gave them concerning theſe matters. The Moth is oft put for the words which come out of it, as Numb, 35- 30+ Job. 7, 11,
ab.Bell, 14 Like ſheep i they arelaid in f the grave&; death 0. 7. ſhal feed on them I, and the * upright m: ſhal have domi-
w. nion over them in the morning =, and their || beauty o Ag ſha) conſume p || in the grave, from their dwelling g.
i Whcch for a ſcaſon are ted inlarge and ſweet Paſtures, but at P -6 2. the Owners pleaſure are put together in cloſe and comfortleſs Folds, _ "6 and ledaway to the Slaughters, not knowing nof conſidering whi- pay ther they are going, & Or in Hel/+ For the Hebrew word ſignifies & 19. 4. both- 1 The firſt Death ſhai conſume their Bodies in the Grave, and the ſecond Death ſhal devour their Souls, m Good men whom here they opprefled and abuſed at their pleaſure, n Either 1. Sud- denly, or within a very little time, as thi: Phraſe is oft uſed, as Pſal. non ba» 30» 5+ and 4% S+» and 101. 8. and 143, 8. &c. Or 2. In theday lin to of general Judgment, and the ReſurreQion of the Dead, For Death ery ne of being called the night, John 9, 4+ and ſleep in many places, that day them is fitly compared to the morning, when men awake out of ſleep, and
p center upon that everlaſting day, But whether this or the tormer be the true meaning of the Phraſe, it is ſufficiently evident the thing here ſpoken of is not done in this Life, but in the next , For 1- This propoſition and priviledge being general, and comm..n to all upright perſons is not verified here, it being the lot of many good men to be opprefled and killed by the wicked, as is manifeſt both from Scripture, as Pſal, 44. 22. Eccleſ, 8. 14, and 9, 2. and from the Experience of all ages of the Church. 25 This dominion of the juft over the wicked happens after the wicked are lid in their Grave, as is here expreſſed, and conſequently ſuppoſeth their future Life and Reſurreftion : For when one perſon rules over anuther, both are ſuppoſed to exiſt or have a beeing, Nor is their any Argument a- gainſt this Senſe, but from a vain aud abſurd conceit which ſome men have entertained, that the Saints in the Oid Tcitanrient had no firm belief nor expeRation of the recompences of tke Life to come. Which is azainſt evident Reaſon;&againſt many clear places of theOld Teſtament,that cannot without force be wreſted to any other Senſe ; &againſt the expreſs teſtimony of theNewTeſtament concerging them, Heb. x1,&in many other places. 0 Or their, Form or Figure, or Image, all which come to one, and ſeems to intimate chat all tneir Glory and Felicity which they had in this Life, was rather imaginary than real, and indeed but a ſhadow, as it is called Eccleſ. 6, 12, and 8, 13s Þ Heb. 7s to conſume, or to be conſumed, i. e. ſhal be conſumed : the in- finitive Verb being here put for the Future, as it is Pſal. 32. 8 Zeb, 3. 4- and12. (0. 9q 4. e They ſhal be hurried from their large and ſtately and pleaſant Manſions, into a cloſe and dark Grave. But
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peradventure more truly and fitly, to this purpoſe, word for word, the Grave ( or rather Hell, as betore, and as this word Sheol is con- feſſedly oft uſed in the Old Teftament, but no where more conve- niently than here ) ſhal be a dwelling or for « dwelling nnto him, or them, or every one of them. _ Which in the Prophets phraſe is called welling with everlaſting burnings, Iſa. 33» 14. and in the Phraſe of the New Teſtament, to 52 caft info and abide in the [abs of Fre and b1,m{1ene, Reve 204 Ip 3
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