Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Vers. 13. Go to now, ye that say, To day or tomorrow we will go into such a City, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain.
The third Admonition, especially to buyers, touching the correcting of their slothful neglect of Divine Providence in undertaking businesses: He convinces them of this sin, from the words mimically propounded. The Arguments of the Exhortation are six.
Argum. 1. It is contained in form of citation to God’s Tribunal, Go to, &c. As if he should say, this prophane and wicked manner of deliberation, which doth not acknowledge the Providence of God, can neither bear the trial of God, nor men judging aright: For as if you were Lords of your lives, and of your strength, and success of your labours, so ye speak, ye dare not defend this carriage before God: Therefore ye are held guilty of prophaneness, for these forms of speaking used by you.
Vers. 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away.
Argum. 2. Ye foolishly determine touching the time to come, when we are all ignorant what will be to morrow: Therefore here you are accused of prophaneness.
For what] Argum. 3. Ye forget your mortality, and the frailty of your life, which is like a vapour, appearing for a little time, by and by cast down by the wind, it vanisheth away: Therefore here ye are deservedly accused of prophaneness. ...
For more, see David Dickson on entrusting our business to divine providence.
The third Admonition, especially to buyers, touching the correcting of their slothful neglect of Divine Providence in undertaking businesses: He convinces them of this sin, from the words mimically propounded. The Arguments of the Exhortation are six.
Argum. 1. It is contained in form of citation to God’s Tribunal, Go to, &c. As if he should say, this prophane and wicked manner of deliberation, which doth not acknowledge the Providence of God, can neither bear the trial of God, nor men judging aright: For as if you were Lords of your lives, and of your strength, and success of your labours, so ye speak, ye dare not defend this carriage before God: Therefore ye are held guilty of prophaneness, for these forms of speaking used by you.
Vers. 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away.
Argum. 2. Ye foolishly determine touching the time to come, when we are all ignorant what will be to morrow: Therefore here you are accused of prophaneness.
For what] Argum. 3. Ye forget your mortality, and the frailty of your life, which is like a vapour, appearing for a little time, by and by cast down by the wind, it vanisheth away: Therefore here ye are deservedly accused of prophaneness. ...
For more, see David Dickson on entrusting our business to divine providence.
