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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 13-14
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, they die in youth, needs not be taken in that strictness, as importing that they die before they come to mens estate, but only that they die before the common time of dying. To die in youth signifieth any immature death; or when death cometh suddenly upon any, they may be said to die in youth. Thus here; they die in youth, that is, some immature or sudden death overtakes them, they come to an hasty or untimely end, they prolong not their days on earth.
Secondly, they die in youth, needs not be taken in that strictness, as importing that they die before they come to mens estate, but only that they die before the common time of dying. To die in youth signifieth any immature death; or when death cometh suddainly upon any, they may be said to die in youth. Thus here; they die in youth, that is, some immature or suddain death overtakes them, they come to an hasty or untimely end, they prolong not their dayes on earth.
Thirdly, this dying in youth may refer to the hypocrites unpreparedness or unfitness to die. Unprepared persons may be said to die in youth, because youths or younger men a•e usually unprepared to die. Hence that serious memento or warning given them (Eccles. 12.1.) Remember now thy Creator in the days ⟨p. 270⟩of thy youth. Young men are commonly so unprepared to die, that whosoever die unprepared, may be said to die in youth; yea, though they die in old age, they die infants. I may say at least in allusion to that of the Prophet (possibly it may be a proof of what I say) Isa. 65.20.) An old man that hath not filled his days (by being good and doing good) dieth a child. As a child may be said to die an hundred years old, when he dies full of grace, so a man of an hundred years old, may be said to die a child, an infant, when he hath no grace; for though he hath been long in the world, yet he can hardly be said to have lived at all. So then, how long soever the hypocrite in heart hath had a being on the earth, and a breathing in the air, he always dieth in youth, or before his time,