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…

Some understand it of a person, Then one may deny him: I see then no more, so M. Broughton. Suppose a traveller, who oftentimes past by, and saw this goodly tree, when he cometh to the place again, sees it no more, the tree is down: So he, who hath past by such a mans house, and beheld his goodly seat, when he comes another time, there is no such man there, the man is gone, It, or, he shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Some understand it of a person, Then one may deny him: I see then no more, so M. Broughton. Suppose a traveller, who oftentimes past by, and saw this goodly tree, when he commeth to the place again, sees it no more, the tree is down: So he, who hath past by such a mans house, and beheld his goodly seat, when he comes another time, there is no such man there, the man is gone, It, or, he shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

I have not seen thee.

We have near the same words, Psal. 37.35, 36. where the flourishing estate of a wicked man is shadowed under the notion of a tree, I have seen the wicked flourish like a green bay-tree, &c. (yet) he past away, and he was not; as much as to say, if it be asked, what's become of him? A man shall answer, he hath not seen him; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Such a sense hath been showed (Job 7.18.) upon those words, The place thereof shall know him no more; A clear riddance shall be made of all men out of the world, especially of wicked men. In that description (Dan. 2.35.) of the four Monarchies, under the similitude of a great Image, whose head was of gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and thighs of brass, his legs of iron, and his feet of iron and clay; the text saith, Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the Summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them; or, as the Chaldee, They were found in no place: A time will come when all Monarchies and worldly Kingdoms, which have stood up in so much lustre, which have dazzled the eyes of all beholders with their splendour, and kept all their neighbour nations under by their power (a time shall come) when this clay, and iron, and brass, and silver, and gold shall be all beaten to pieces, so