'Boo Book. IV Part.4. Leoking unto !fefus. Chap. 2 .Sect.7 on he forefaw his enlargement. And this interpretation 7ie:(.IJ grounds on the words following, and foregoing, wherein Paul compares his perfecutions to a death , and his p. ·~rvation from them to a life ; as he had done before alfo, chap. I. ~~~~ . 5. Art thou afraid offalling o~, or of fa)ling away? why~ re- , member, that the: immutable: force and perpetuitieofthe new covenant is fecured by the r.durrection of Jefus Chrift. I will 1(a. H · ~ · make an everllljting covemmt with you, even tht Jure merdes of David.; this the A poftle applyes to.the refurreCl:ion ofChrift, as the bottoming-of that furc: covenant, and .u concerning that he raifed him up from the dead, hejaid on ·this wife, I willgive JOH the Act. r N 4· Jure mercies ofDavid. ·6 . Art thou af,raid ofdeath, hell and the power of the grave? why, now rcmemberthat Chrifl: is rifen from the dead, and by his refurreCl:ion death is fwallowed ~1p in viCtory; fo that now thou C . mayfl: fing, 0 dwh where ·is thy fling? 0 grave where is thy viilor or./~ · H•:;y .? nowthankJbetoGod whir:hhathgiven usviaory throughour 7 • Lord 'fefus (hrift. It is the yoyce of Chrifl:, thy dead men fhall Ifa.~G. 19 , live, t6f,ether with my dt~td bod7 fha/1 they arife; awakf and Jingye that dwelt in the duff, for thy dew is as the dew of herbes, and the earth foal! caft out the.dead, <])avid was fo lifted up with this re. furreCl:ion, that he crydit out, therefore my heart isgl.d,_and my I'[a!.r6 9,1o: j,lur] r-ejoyceth, my flefh alfo foal! reft_in hope; for thou wilt not leave my foul in hell, r1either wilt thoufulfe r thy holy one rofee cor- -ruption. But efpecially [ob was fo exceedingly tranfport'ed with this, that he breaks out into thefe extafies, 0 -that my words were. Job 29.1J, t4, .no'IJJ' wrirten,O thllt they were printed in a book_! that they weregravm 2)·,~6, 2.7, with an iron pen trnd leade in th~ roclzJor ever! f~>r I kpow thlilt mJ ReJ. eemer liveth, and that he [ball fl and at the latter day upon the earth; and thoughafter my skin wormes /half drftroy this body,pt • in my jiefb (hall I fee Cjod, whom I fhall fee for my felfe, andmine . ryes fhall behold, and not another, thou_~h my reines be con[Nmed ' -within me. No man ever fince Chrifl did fpeak more clearly of . ·chriil:s refurrection and his own, .than 'fob did here before Chrift. Obferve in it;_, 0 my foul, [ob's wifh, and the matter wifhed: his wilb was, that cert~ine words which had been cordial to him, might remaineto memory; and this wifh hath three willies in one. I. That they might be wr~tten. .z.. That they might be regifl:red
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