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3. It is taken for an age of men, or the state of the time present.¹ So in the Gospel, Christ calleth the Scribes and Pharisees, A generation of vipers, and an adulterous generation. As if he had said; You of this time and age of the world, are a viperous and an adulterous brood. So Psal. 14.5. God is in the generation of the righteous: That is, he favours that generation, or sort of men; God is in all generations, but such he delights in most; the wicked have cause enough to fear those, in whom God delights.

1. 1Aetatem vocant Hebraei genus hominum simul viventiū, sic aetas prava, adultera. Apud Graecos [Greek or Hebrew], significat intervallum septem annorū, unde medici vetant duas aetates habenti, i. e. annos quatuordecem nato venam incidi, quod sanguine egeat. Suidas.Aetatem vocant Hebraei genus hominum simul viventiū, sic aetas prava, adultera. Apud Graecos 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, significat intervallum septem annorū, unde medici vetant duas aetates habenti, i. e. annos quatuordecem nato venam incidi, quod sanguine egeat. Suidas.

T••t of the Prophet (which text hath variety of interpretations) is taken in this sense (Isa. 53.8.) Who shall declare his generation? It is the word of the text, Who shall declare his age, or the generation of Christ? Some understand it of his eter•••• generation. Others of his •••••rall generation, when he was ••••rnate, the mystery whereof was beyond words. A third, of that eternity which followed his passion. As if it were an Antithesis to those words, He was taken from prison, and he was cut off, but who shall declare his generation? You may quickly write up the days that Christ lived here upon earth, they were but few, even his pilgrimage was short on earth, but who can declare his generation? Those infinite and eternal ages and revolutions, through which he shall pass, though now you have quickly cut off his life? Others, by his generation understand the holy seed and issue, the children of Christ. His Cross was fruitful, and his sufferings productive of an infinite generation, Who can declare it? Though you cut off the Father, yet this father by dying will give life to an innumerable posterity, Who can declare his generation? So (vers. 10.) He shall see his seed. But besides all these we may with good probability interpret