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account of himself. No, no ; the great lesson of 

 the text is harder and deeper than so : it is that we 

 must sweat for, it is that we may bleed for: it is all 

 that Adam lost, and all that Christ came to recover: 

 it is the business of our whole life, and it is des- 

 perate folly and madness to defer to learn it till 

 death, when God now calls us to account for it. 

 Though the verb in some versions be future (as I 

 said) yet still it is discent hahitatores, we must learn it 

 while we dwell here in the world, and who can 

 secure us that beyond the next moment ? When 

 once we remove hence, there is no school beyond : 

 the Platonic Eniditorum in Origen (a place under 

 ground, I know not where, in which separated 

 souls are supposed to learn what they missed of 

 or neglected here) as very a fable as the Platonic 

 Purgatory. *As there is no work, nor labour ; so 

 no device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the 

 grave. The schools are all in this world : all be- 

 yond is prison, and dungeon, and place of tor- 

 ment, for such as learn not their duty here ; fire 

 without light, and utter darkness. 



3. Again, They did learn (so the Syriac, and the 

 interlineary Latin) ichen thy judgments icere in the 

 earth : for there is an ellipsis in the original of the 

 former clause, and the verb substantive may be 

 supplied either way, when thy judgments are or 

 were in the earth: and the conjunction may seem to 

 stand fair for the latter '^'^^^ in quantum, or juxta 



* Eccles. ix. 10. 



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