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…

A second translation takes the Noun (as we) for hope, and not for folly, and retains the former sense of the Verb; and so the words are thus, Whose hope shall loath him; that is,¹ The thing which he hoped for shall loath him; how loath him? It shall loath him, not formally, but equivalently, because it shall do that which man doth, when he loathes any thing; when we loath a thing, we flee or turn away from it; so, His hope shall hath him, that is, the thing which he hoped for shall flee far away, and quite depart, it will not come near him. Good shall remove from the hypocrite when he expects and makes after it. An hypocrite at once loathes true grace, and hopes for true comforts: but comfort here and glory hereafter shall loath him, heaven shall shut against him.

A second translation takes the Noun (as we) for hope, and not for folly, and retains the former sense of the Verb; and so the words are thus, Whose hope shall loath him; that is,¹ The thing which he hoped for shall loath him; how loath him? It shall loath him, not formally, but equivalently, because it shall doe that which man doth, when he loaths any thing; when we loath a thing, we flee or turn away from it; so, His hope shall hath him, that is, the thing which he hoped for shall flee farre away, and quite depart, it will not come near him. Good shall remove from the hypocrite when he expects and makes after it. An hypocrite at once loaths true grace, and hopes for true comforts: but comfort here and glory hereafter shall loath him, heaven shall shut against him.

1. 1Quem fastidit spes sua Jun. Eum quasi fastidius fugit idipsum quod sperat. Jun.

Or take it for the act of hope (as others) he shall loath his hope; ¹that is, the very hope which he hath had shall be grievous and vexatious to him; nothing shall grieve him more then this, that he hath hoped so much. His hope shall grieve and afflict him as bad as all his afflictions; Raised expectations disappointed, prove our greatest sorrows. That man sinks lowest in grief, whose heart was highest in hope. How extremely shall the hypocrite be grieved, who falls as low as hell, when his hopes were raised up as high as heaven? The hypocrite both in his way, and in his end is like the King of Babylon. He saith in his heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high, yet, he shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit,