An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

That is (say some) I would I had died before I had been born, for then no eye had seen me. Or more generally thus. O that I had died speedily, so speedily that I might have gone out of the world, before I was observed to have been there: Who delights to see the dead? especially a child dead-born, or dying as soon as born? Sarah was the delight of Abraham's eyes, whiles she lived, and yet as soon as she was dead, he gives any money for a sepulchre to bury her out of his sight. Or again, Job that he might show how little he regarded life, disregards that which is most desirable in life.¹ Man naturally desires, To see, and to be seen, to know, and to be known. That which carries a great part of the world, is an affectation to be pointed at, and taken notice of, as Some-bodies in the world. He that liveth unseen in the world, is as a man out of the world, or as one buried alive. To be in prison is a great punishment, because a prisoner liveth out of view; he cannot freely see or be seen. Job wishes no eye had seen him, rather then his eyes should have seen so much evil, or that others should have seen him in the midst of so many evils.

That is (say some) I would I had died before I had been born, for then no eye had seen me. Or more generally thus. O that I had died speedily, so speedily that I might have gone out of the world, before I was observed to have been there: Who delights to see the dead? especially a childe dead-born, or dying as soon as born? Sarah was the delight of Abrahams eyes, whiles she lived, and yet assoon as she was dead, he gives any money for a sepulchre to bury her out of his sight. Or again, Job that he might shew how little he regarded life, disregards that which is most desirable in life.¹ Man naturally desires, To see, and to be seen, to know, and to be known. That which carries a great part of the world, is an affectation to be pointed at, and taken notice of, as Some-bodies in the world. He that liveth unseen in the world, is as a man out of the world, or as one buried alive. To be in prison is a great punishment, because a prisoner liveth out of view; he cannot freely see or be seen. Job wishes no eye had seen him, rather then his eyes should have seen so much evil, or that others should have seen him in the midst of so many evils.

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