A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

He shall be destroyed: might it not be said, much ruinated? As an house h••h the windows broken, yet it stands: the covering is stripped off, yet it stands: the walls are beaten down, yet it stands: take away the foundation; then you may say, Hîc suit domus; here was an house. Job 8.18. If he destroy him from his place, then […] shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. May it not be said of man, as of a clock; which growing foul, the maker resumes, takes it in pieces, lays it wheel by wheel, and pin by pin; scours it, puts it together in frame again, and sets it going? No, alas, the wicked is destroyed, put out of tune for ever, and that as swiftly, as if a clock were dashed against the stones. O that it had any other measure but perdition, any other manner but celerity! Job 14.7. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, ye• through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. B•t man dieth, and wasteth away, and where is he? He that should read the Chronicle of some great mans life, find him endowed with singular gifts of nature, beautified with rare qualities of art, befriended with the successes of fortune: whom his Prince had highly honoured, the people admired, flatterers adored; where nothing wanted to the concurrence of happiness: and thus pursuing the story, measuring the hopes of future glory by the experience of present prosperity; should now turn over the leaf to read, and find a blank, no more to be read, an abrupt suspension; he would either think the writer had mistook, or that some leaves were torn o•• of the book. No, there was an high finger that blotted it out, and broke off the history with an unexpected catastrophe. For Haman the second man in the Court, to forfeit all his glories at the gallows! As if Destruction had the charge, th•• CHRIST gave to Judas; Quod facis, cito fac, Joh. 13.27. What thou doest, […] quickly.