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…

Secondly, As an answer to such as objected against him for wishing he had not lived: Do you know (said they) what you have said? Is life such a small matter with you? Or do you understand what you desire, when you desire death? Is deformed death become a beauty in your eye? What ever you think of it, life is a precious jewel? Yes (saith Job) I know very well what life is, and I know of I had died before I was born, I had not lost much life; What's the life of a few days? The life of eternity is worth the having and esteeming; but why should you think I have wished away a matter of moment, when I wished away this life? For are not my days few?

Secondly, As an answer to such as objected against him for wishing he had not lived: Doe you know (said they) what you have said? Is life such a small matter with you? Or doe you understand what you desire, when you desire death? Is deformed death become a beauty in your eye? What ever you think of it, life is a precious jewel? Yes (saith Job) I know very well what life is, and I know of I had died before I was born, I had not lost much life; What's the life of a few daiis? The life of eternity is worth the having and esteeming; but why should you think I have wished away a matter of moment, when I wished away this life? For are not my daies few?

Whence observe, The loss of a whole life in this world, is no great loss.

Whence observe, The losse of a whole life in this world, is no great losse.

We cannot lose a great deal, when all is but a little, nor many, ⟨p. 576⟩when we have but a few in all. He looseth but a few days, who dieth the first day; then, what have we got, when we have lived according to the calculation of nature, many days? Job makes this an argument to satisfy others about his wish, that all his days had bin cut off: May not we satisfy our selves by it, when a piece, or a part, an end, the worst end of our days is cut off? What if we have abated ten or twenty of those years which possibly we might have lived; Twenty years are but a few days; for, a whole life, consisting of three twenties and ten, is but a few days. This we are sure of, that the few days we loose on earth, shall never be missed in heaven; it will be no abatement to our comfort there, to think we lived but a little here; all the sorrows of this life will be swallowed up in the next, and so will our sudden parting with this life.