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A35537	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing C776; ESTC R15201	593,041	687

of prophane spirits usually dye in their youth and are cut off in the Flower of their Age. They who multiply their sins substract from their dayes and they have least g●ound of hope to live long who live ill As bloody so deceitful men such are hypocrites in heart shall not live out half their dayes They who live not out half their dayes dye in youth That also is the meaning of Eliphaz Chap. 15.32 where he saith The wicked man shall have his recompence before his time as also when he saith Chap. 22.16 They were cut down out of time that is before the ordinary time of cutting man down by Death was come And therefore I answer Secondly they die in youth needs not be taken in that strictness as importing that they die before they come to mens estate but only that they die before the common time of dying To die in youth signifieth any immature death or when death cometh suddainly upon any they may be said to die in youth Thus here they die in youth that is some immature or suddain death overtakes them they come to an hasty or untimely end they prolong not their dayes on earth Thirdly this dying in youth may refer to the hypocrites unpreparedness or unfitness to die Unprepared persons may be said to die in youth because youths or younger men a●e usually unprepared to die Hence that serious memento or warning given them Eccles 12.1 Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Young men are commonly so unprepared to die that whosoever die unprepared may be said to die in youth yea though they die in old age they die infants I may say at least in alusion to that of the Prophet possibly it may be a proof of what I say Isa 65.20 An old man that hath not filled his dayes by being good and doing good dieth a child As a child may be said to die an hundred years old when he dies full of grace so a man of an hundred years old may be said to die a child an infant when he hath no grace for though he hath been long in the world yet he can hardly be said to have lived at all So then how long soever the hypocrite in heart hath had a being on the earth and a breathing in the air he alwayes dieth in youth or before his time Moritur cum Juventa Jun. Ponitur ב pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut cap. 9.26 Psal 143.7 Pisc Aeque morientur pari judicio Dei conterentur atque juveniles illi animi qui proterve obnituntur Deo palam ad omne flagitium projecti sunt Jun. Vt hic vita mori dicitur sic Authores Latini dicunt vita vivere vitam vivere vita moritur cum homo vitam cum morte commutat Drus Vita eorum suppleo ausertur Pisc Cum meritoriis Pisc Latini vacant cinaedos pathicos qui in concubitu libidinoso vice mulieris funguntur Id. because he hath not yet learned the way to eternal life There is yet another reading of the wo●ds we say they die in youth that saith they die with youth or young men that is as dissolute deboyst vitious and riotous young men die so hypocrites die The hypocrite is opposed to the outwardly profane in his life but he shall be like him in his death As if Elihu had said look as vain voluptuous youths carnal youths or young men who give themselves up to their pleasures look as or how they die look what wrath is upon them when they die even so shall the hypocrites in heart die they die with the youth I shall touch this further upon the last clause where Elihu gives us this sence in other words and in words that more fully reach this sence for having said they die in or with youth he thus concludes And their life is among the unclean Here it may be queried forasmuch as he said before they die in youth how doth he here say Their life is among the unclean what life have they when dead I answer By their li●e we may understand that life which hypocrites in heart shall have after death which may be taken two wayes First for the life of the soul while the body remaines a consuming or consumed ca●kass in the grave that life after death the life of their soules is among the unclean Secondly for the life which they shall have after the resurrection of their bodies that will be among the unclean too Some translate the words thus Their life is taken away among the unclean we say their life is among the unclean The word is is not in the original text and we may make the supply by a word signifying to take away Their life is taken away among the unclean that is they shall die like the worst of sinners they shall make no better an end than the unclean and profane no better than the most foul and filthy Sodomites as the original imports For The word which we render unclean hath a double yea a contrary signification holy and unholy clean and unclean They who are holy onely in name are most unholy in heart and life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Duo contraria signifi●at sanctura profanum pollutum scortatorem Recte simulatores effaeminatis comparat quia ex pravitate animi contingit quod homines sint simulatores est enim proprium magnanimi esse manifestum Aquin. The Scripture often by the same word expresseth things of utmost opposition so here he calleth those who are most unholy by a word which signifieth holiness the Hebrew saith their life is among the Sodomites Mr. Broughton translates and their life with fornicators Sodomites who are the most unclean and filthy sinners worse than fornicators are expressed by a word by this word which also signifieth holy or holy ones Deut. 23.17 There shall not be a Sodomites or an holy one among you and therefore as we read of Sodomites in the land who are sinners against the the law of nature 1 Kings 14.24 so according to that law of Moses we read 1 Kings 15.12 and Chapter 22.46 as also 2 Kings 23.7 of the destroying of the houses of the Sodomites and of the removing of Sodomites out of the land Sodomites being the most abominable of all unclean ones how unclean are they whose life is among them or whose life is taken away wi●h them The Spirit of God doth rightly compare hypocrites to Sodomites and filthy persons because it proceeds from the heat of some base lust or other that any are hypocrites 'T is proper to those who are magnanimous or of noble spirits to be open clear-hearted and ingenious Their life is with the unclean Hypocrites have a great affectation to be numbered among the clean and holy and possibly they have been or may be high in the opinion of men for holiness for very Sain●s But their life shall be among the Sodomites or the unclean It being a shame to

express the abomination of that sort of sinners by a word proper to them the Scripture by an Euphemisme calls them holy we translate the Scripture sense and call them unholy or unclean Their life is among the unclean among Sod●mites Thus as the death of the hypocrite here is fully expressed in the former words He shall die with the youth that is like those sinful Sodomitish youths like those youths who live in the heat of abominable lusts though he seemed to have an heat of holiness so their life he●eafter is fully expressed in these latter words Their life is with the unclean This clearly sets forth hypocrites they are spiritual adulterers they pretend love to Christ as their husband but their hearts go a whoting after the world And therefore as their life was really in this world though they pretended otherwise so it shall be visible in the world to come among the unclean Hence Note First They who are like the unclean in this life shall be wrapped up with them in the next life after death or in the second death They who live like the wicked shall dy like the wicked and live with them if theirs may be called a life for evermore The hypocrite with all his varnish and fair colours shall not die like a godly man nor live with him after death though he hath lived the life of a godly man as to appearance yet he shal not die so nor live so when the dead rise he shal die and live like and among his own company the unclean He was secretly unclean in his life and he shall openly live among the unclean when he dyes Balaam a Sorcerer a Witch a false Prophet how did he beg that he might die the death of the righteous and that his last end might be like his Num. 23.14 The hypocrite would sain die like those whom he hath imitated and made a shew of all the dayes of his life But did Balaam dy like the righteous no he dyed as he lived like one that had loved the wages of unrighteousness Though hypocrites have lived in reputation with godly and good men yea have been reputed godly and good men yet when they die they shal go down among the unclean even among the debauched and filthy Sodomites they shal go to their own place and to their own company It is said of Judas when he hanged himself Acts. 1.25 He went to his own place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his proper place All things naturally tend to that which is congeniall or like to them heavy things downward light things upward What place is congenial to what place is the center of wicked men Surely Hell the bottomless pit is their own place and that 's the meaning of the text there Judas was a great while among the Apostles in an high place in a very excellent place he went like an Apostle or for an Apostle but that was not his owne place he was an hypocrite and when he dyed then he went to his owne place to th●t place which was proper to him In this life good and bad are mingled together in the same place the hypocrites and the sincere may be in one House in one Cong egation in one Church in the purest Church on ea●th there may be hypocrites in heart as well as sincere but when hypocrites die they shall be divided from all those with whom they were never truly or in heart united If it were possible all the godly or sincere should be in one place as to spirituals here that 's most comely and desirable though not attainable yet we cannot make the separation perfect in this life but at death it will be done perfectly death will not leave one hypocrite among the sincere not a weed among the herbs nor a chaff in the floor death will make perfect separation after death all the holy shall be gathered together into one society and all the unholy into another society by themselves It is said of Abraham he was gathered to his people Gen. 25.8 Not only to his kindred in the flesh but to all those that were of his faith Death will gather all to their proper place and company Godly Josiah was gathered to his fathers 2 Chron. 34.28 and the wicked are said Psal 49.19 to go to the generation of their fathers where they shall never see light Death will send every one to his owne The hypocrite shall no more shuffle himself among the righteous nor Satan himself nor any of his Sons among the Sons of God every man shall be for ever among his like Further note The smoothest-faced and closest hypocrite in the world shall fare as bad or no better then the foulest and deboystest sinner They shall die with the vile and be taken away among the unclean The fairest hypocrite shall have no more esteem with God then the foulest Sodomite that ever was in the world Christ saith if any refuse to receive the Gospel it shall be worse with them then with Sodom the cry of whose sins went up to heaven nor shall it be any whit better but rather worse with them who ●eceive the Gospel of Christ only in shew their hearts not being right with him How woful is their present condition who daily heap up wrath who in the sense opened die in or with youth and whose life after death is among the unclean JOB Chap. 36. Vers 15 16 17. 15. He delivereth the poor in his affliction and openeth their ear in oppression 16. Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place where there is no straitness and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness 17. But thou hast fulfilled the judgement of the wicked judgement and justice take hold on thee ELihu having shewed how terrible God will be how dreadfully he will deal with subtile hypocrites The hypocrites in heart heap up wrath proceeds in this context to do two things further First that he might raise some hope in Job if he did it last humble himself he repeats the gracious dealings of God with humble and upright-hearted ones at the 15th verse I say he repeats it because he had spoken of it before vers 6 7. and this is a very useful and profitable repetition by which Job is doubly admonished to raise himself from his despair of a better condition forasmuch as God doth not afflict with a purpose to destroy but that he may heal and help the afflicted The greatest design of God in chastening us should be alwayes remembred that he intends only our good especially to make us thereby better or more partakers of his holiness Secondly he makes application of the whole doctrine to Job and that two wayes First by way of consolation assuring him he had been delivered in case he had humbled himself duly deeply before the Lord v. 16. Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a large place