The truly blessed man

2. It now follows that we observe something of the multitude and greatness of those sorrows that belong to them: and this refers to the misery of that estate into which man is fallen, of which only some few glances.

1. As to the multitude of these sorrows which are the portion of wicked men: Let us observe,

1. That all the Curses written in the Book of God do belong unto these: And what a fearful number of them are there recorded? the Curses are nothing else but the Commentaries that are made upon that word, Death, which is put into the threatening of the First Covenant, and are written to explain to us the meaning of it. Now this Death was declared to be the punishment of sin, and so man by Sin is exposed to it, and to all that is contained in it: God therefore tells us who they be that lay themselves open to all these Curse, Deut. 28.15. So that there is no misery that eve• befell any of the Children of men, but every ungodly man is exposed to the same, as long as he continues in his natural state: and who can count them up, they are so many? but;

1. That all the Curses written in the Book of God do belong unto these: And what a fearful number of them are there recorded? the Curses are nothing else but the Commentaries that are made upon that word, Death, which is put into the threatning of the First Covenant, and are written to explain to us the meaning of it. Now this Death was declared to be the punishment of sin, and so man by Sin is exposed to it, and to all that is contained in it: God therefore tells us who they be that lay themselves open to all these Curse,