Chap. z. An Expofition upon the Bookof j OB. Vert 6. 251 on as hard as his hand aced with utmoft malice could finite him, thou haft liberty to (mite him into the very valley of the (hadom of death,to bring him fo neer death that he may look into the graves mouth, but no further. Save hir life. Here is Sataì3s Chaine, the limitation or reftraint ofhis powér. When God puts any of his fervauts intoSatans hand, he keeps Sa- tan in his own hand.And as all the Elea are in Gods hand,to kezp them from takinghurt, fo the Devil is in Gods hand, tokeep him from doinghurt to his Elea. Save his life. The wordNephefh here ufed, fignifieth properly the Soul, and theSoul is in Scripture often put for the life ; becaufe the foul is the fpring, the fountain of life; life is derived or diffufed into the body from or by the foule : and as loon as the font is parted from the body, life departs. Hence both this Hebrew word , and tut:13 the Greek word4,uxi, have their names from breathing or re- fpiring : For Tile goesout when breath goes out ; when we ceafe breathing, we ceafe living. Our life is but a blaft, a breaths the Lord formed man out ofthe duff ofthe earth, andbreathed intohis noffrils the breath oflife,and he became a livingfoul, Gen. i.7. This is that vital fpirit by which all quick things move ; therefore Beafls,Birds,Fifh, and creeping things are calle-d living fouls,Gen. 2.2o,25.And this life is called the bloud,becaufe it is contained or carried in the bloud,Gen.9.4. Further, it is very obfervable, that the Hebrewes call the Body feparated from the Soul, or adead Corps Nephefh,Num.5.2.c.9.1 o.c.19.11. Hag. 2. id.. Though the lifebequitegone out, departed from the carkafs or body ofa dead man, yet that dead body is called life or foul; to note that it (hall live again, and that the foul (hall return unto it : The myitery of the Refurrefdion fromdeath was implied in the name of the dead. We find al(o that the Heathens called a dead body a (òu1; poffibly from force glimpfe ofthe Refurreaion. We lay up a foul in the grave, faith the Poet, Animamque fepulchro condimuo. Virg.1 .t. But how is this work put into Satans hand , Thefaysng ofhis life ? What is Satan becomea Saviour ? what falvatiou can we expect from him, wholename is Apollyon,andAbaddon, Rev.p. i e . bothwhich tignifie a 'dejtroyer ? Shall we fend to the wolf to fave the (beep? or to the Vulture to fave the Dove ? Deftm- K k z Rion
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