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John Trapp on Proverbs 14:32

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Proverbs14:32

Verſ. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedneſs] Being arreſted by death (as a cruel Serjeant) in the Devils name, hee is hurried away, and hurled into hell, as dying in his ſins, and killed by death, Rev. 2.23. And oh what a dreadful skreek gives the guilty ſoul then to ſee it ſelf launching into an infinite Ocean of ſcalding lead, and muſt ſwim naked in it for ever!

But the righteous hath hope in his death] Death to the righteous, as the valley of Achor, is a door of hope to give entrance into Paradiſe; to the wicked it is a trap-door to Hell. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Improbi dum ſpirant, ſperant: juſtus etiam cum expirat, ſpe[illegible: 1 letter]at. Aelian tells how hee once heard a dying Swan ſing moſt ſweetly and melodiouſly, which in her life time hath no ſuch pleaſant note. As on the other ſide Syrens are ſaid to ſing curiouſly while they live, but to roar horribly when they dye. Such is the caſe of the godly and the wicked when they come to dye.

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