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…

He confirms what he had said, by a further declaration of his condition, in case he had not been brought forth out of the womb, or had died before he had been seen in the throng of the world; Why, what then Job? Then, I should have been as though I had not been, and my afflictions should never have had any being: so speedy a death had quitted me of all the evils of my life. I should not have sipped or tasted,¹ much less have drunk so deep of this cup of sufferings. It is said of Abortives who die in the womb, and of such as die immediately after they are born, They are, and they are not; they who live but a moment in nature, shall live for ever. A life here less then a span long,² will be eternity long: yet as to the world, such a life is no life, such a being no being. Lawyers say, They who die before, or as soon as they are born, are reckoned as unborn; they make no change in states, they never had a name, or an interest in the world, and so they go for nothing in the world. The Prophet Obadiah (verse 16.) ⟨p. 574⟩threatens Edom, That they shall be as though they had not been; that is, they must perish, and their memorial with them. Some are so thrust out of the world, that they shall be, as if they had never been; and some come into the world so, that their being was, as if they had never been.

He confirms what he had said, by a further declaration of his condition, in case he had not been brought forth out of the womb, or had died before he had been seen in the throng of the world; Why, what then Job? Then, I should have been as though I had not been, and my afflictions should never have had any being: so speedy a death had quitted me of all the evils of my life. I should not have sipt or tasted,¹ much lesse have drunk so deep of this cup of sufferings. It is said of Abortives who die in the womb, and of such as die immediately after they are born, They are, and they are not; they who live but a moment in nature, shall live for ever. A life here lesse then a span long,² will be eternity long: yet as to the world, such a life is no life, such a being no being. Lawyers say, They who die before, or as soon as they are born, are reckoned as unborn; they make no change in states, they never had a name, or an interest in the world, and so they go for nothing in the world. The Prophet Obadiah (verse 16.)