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John Trapp on Job 14:5

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Job14:5

Verſe 5. Seeing his dayes are determined &c.] God hath ſet every man both his time (whether ſhorter, called here his dayes, or longer, the number of his months, they have both their bounds which none can paſſe) and alſo his task, Acts 13.25.Hieron. ep. ad Fu. John fulfilled his courſe, & in brevi vitae ſpatia tempora virtutum multa replevit, and he lived long in a little ſpace; he wrought hard, as not willing to be taken with his task undone. So verſe 36. David, after hee had ſerved his owne generation, and had done all the will of God, fell on ſleep. See more of this on chap. 7.1.

Thou haſt appointed his bounds] Heb. His ſtatutes; It is appointed for all men once to die, Heb. 9.27. once for all, and for ever it is appointed, and this ſtatute is irrepealable. Here then we ſee the cauſe why ſome, likely to live long, die ſoon, and others more infirme live longer. God hath ſet the bounds of each ones life to a very day.Virg. The bounds may be paſſed which our natural complexion ſetteth; the bounds cannot be paſſed which the providence and will of God ſetteth. Stat ſua cuique dies.—

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