- I I I-4 . lJfiin'J natural S,tat!, State If.. – to his foal : and now the :vrath that·did hang ·in the threat- < ning as, a claud lik~ a man's.hand, is 9arkning the face of . · the whole heaven above him : '-<~.nd if he /<Jok into the earth: .(from whence all ·his light was wont to come), be.hold•trouble imd,darknefl, dimnefl ofanguijh; and-h; jhail fe driven · t~ darlneft, Ifa. ~i·ii. 22. (2.) Death chugeth foul arid hody to part, till the great day. · His foul is req_uired of him, Luke ~ii. 20. 0 what a miferable parting mull: thisc be to a child of wrath! care was indeed taken to provide for the body things netdfuy for this life: but, alas ! there ' is nothing laid op for another· life to it ; nothing to be a· , feed of aglorious relurre~~lion ; as it lived, fo it mufl: die, . .:and rife again finful ftefh; fuel for the fire of God's wrath. As-for the foul, he was never folicious to provide ·for it •. 1t lay in the bodydead to God, and· aU things truly good;. ' and fo mufi be carried out into the pit, in the grave-cloths , of its natural fiate, For now that death comes, the 6:om.. }'~nions in fin,m~fl:. pa~t. . (3.) Death chargeth the foul to compear before the tribunal of God, while the body lies to be carried to the grave, Ecflef.. xiL ·7. 'Thejpirit jhal/ re.- 1-urn to Cod who ga.ve it. - Heb. ix. z, 7. It is appointed rmto e11! men once to die~ but after this the judgment. Well were it for the finfuf fou·l, if it might be buried together <with the body. But d1at canno~ be : it mufi go a.nd receive. its fentence ; and fhall be fhut up in the prifon of hell, ,, ~hile the curfed body lies imprifooe~ in the grave, tiH the· •flay of the general judgment. . . . When the end of the world, appointed of God, is come; . the trumpet !hall found,. and the dead arife. Then fhall the \i.r.eary ,earth. at the eornmand of the Judge, ea([' forth. the bodies' ; the £urfed bodies·of thefe that lived and died in their natural Hate; Th#foa , dea:th, and heJ/,jhaU deliver. up theilf' dead, Rev. x.x. 13·. rheir miferablebodies and fouls fhall be: re ·united~ and they filled before the tribunal of Chrifl:. Then fhall they receive that fearfuJ fentence, de– part from me, ye c'urfed, int·oeveriajling fire., 'preparedfor the devil and his angelr, Matth. xx. 41. Whereu·pon they r /hall go arway int~ ',everlafiingpun~fhment:, ver. 46. They. fhall be eternally !hut up in hellt never.to get the leafl: drop, ef comtort, nor the leafi eafe of their torment. There they: will be. punifhed w.ith thepuni!hmentof lofs ;. being' excom- , municattd~
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