An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

The word which we translate perished, hath divers significations. ¹First, a returning to nothing, an utter consumption, which is to perish as a beast, Psal. 49. 20. the Holy Ghost describing a man who is not acquainted with God in his great estate, compares him thus; Man being in honour, and not understanding (sc. the things of God) becometh like the beasts that perish; not that he perisheth as a beast doth, but he is like a perishing beast; the similitude is not in perishing, but in his qualities who perisheth, he hath but such qualities, he is (upon the matter) even of as gross a temper as a perishing beast.

The word which we translate perished, hath divers significations. ¹First, a returning to nothing, an utter consumption, which is to perish as a beast, Psal. 49. 20. the Holy Ghost describing a man who is not acquainted with God in his great estate, compares him thus; Man being in honour, and not understanding (sc. the things of God) becommeth like the beasts that perish; not that he perisheth as a beast doth, but he is like a perishing beast; the similitude is not in perishing, but in his qualities who perisheth, he hath but such qualities, he is (upon the matter) even of as grosse a temper as a perishing beast.

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Secondly to perish signifies to dye. The dissolution of man, or the dis-union of soul and body, Isay 57. 1. is thus expressed, the righteous perish, that is, they dye, as it is explained afterward, they are taken away from the evil to come, they rest in their beds, sc. in their graves: so