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…

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.

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 daies, who dieth the first day; then, what have we got, when we have lived according to the calculation of nature, many daies? Job makes this an argument to satisfie others about his wish, that all his days had bin cut off: May not we satisfie our selves by it, when a piece, or a part, an end, the worst end of our daies 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 daies; for, a whole life, consisting of three twenties and ten, is but a few daies. This we are sure of, that the few daies 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.

Thirdly, The clearest sense of these words [Are not my days few?] is, that they are the ground of a petition for the mitigation of his troubles; As if he had said, Lord, I have but a while to live in the world, my days are few, therefore do not think much that I should have a little comfort and refreshing in these my days; Consider my life is short, O that thou wouldest slack thy hand, and yield me some ease and comfort in this short life. He had used this argument at the seventh Chapter, verse 16. Let me alone for my days are vanity;