John Trapp on Job 20:11
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Job20:11
Verſe 11. His bones are full of the ſin of his youth] Fowl practiſes have ſo grown up together with ſome ſinful people, that they may ſay of them as the Strumpet Quartilla did of her Virginity, that ſhe could not remember that ever ſhe had been a maid. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedſt not my voice, Junonom meam i[illegible: 1 letter] atam habeam ſi unquam me meminerim Virginc[illegible: 1 letter]s. Petron. Jer. 22.21. Then thou hadſt no mind to it, but now thou haſt leſſe, thy heart being hardned by the deceitfulneſſe of ſin, Heb. 3.17. Now in the froth of theſe youthful vanities unrepented of, breedeth that worm of an evil conſcience that never dyeth. In the beſt, they procure much ruth, though not utter ruine. The ſweet wayes of my youth (ſaith a man afterwards eminent for holineſſe) did breed ſuch wormes in my ſoul, as that my heavenly Father will have me yet a little while continue my bitter Wormſeed, becauſe they cannot otherwiſe be killed. Thus he Holy David prayeth hard, Pſal. 25.7. Remember not againſt me the ſins of my youth. Auſtin was much in the ſame ſuit. That age of mans life is very ſubject to, and uſually very full of ſin, yea reproachful evils, jer. 31.19. Fleſhly luſts that war againſt the ſoul, 1 Pet. 2.12. and like ſo many noiſom diſeaſes ſoak into the bones, and ſuck out the marrow, to the conſumption and deſtruction of the whole man.
Which ſhall lye down with him in the duſt; that is, ſaith Vatablus, God will ſo forſake him, that he ſhall never repent, but ſhall dye in his ſins, which is worſe then to dye in priſon, or to dye in a ditch; for they that dye n ſin, ſhall riſe in ſin, and ſtand before Chriſt in ſin, and how ſhall they be able to ſtand before him?
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