4O,0 Clrap.3. :fin-Expefttion upon the Bookof j 'p B. Vert.-13, in the fix Vertes following , by an Argument which we may thus form. I will prove, faith be, that in death I Should have rat and been quiet , and lien Still , forall conditions and forts of men are çuièt and lie hill in death. There (or in that efrate)where all de- grees and forts of perforas are at red, thereLure. I Should have ,sound reh; but in death all forts and degrees ofperfons have found real, therefore I Should have found reft too. Now that all forts ofpeople lie hill and are at rad in death , he proves by an elegant enumeration of the feveral forts and conditi- ons'of men. He makes an argument by way ofinduedon ofall or rnod of the ranksof rien. Firft, . He fhewes it in Kings and ;Cos-inf d'ors of the Earth, thefe men that make fucha bustle in the _world, when once they are dead, they are quiet enough. And then lie ihewes it in Rich men aiMPrinces, who load themfelveswith :hick clay, who toyl and moyl all their Bayes to heap up and amafs much wealth ; when thefecome to the grave, there's an endofall their labours,then they,rnuft give over all their purfuit of Riches. Fourthly, He íhewes it in children, either abortives, .born. before ,Natures time, or born in full perfedion ofNature, Verf: r 6. Lad- ly , He rrewes it in oppreffors and the oppreffed;,.inprifoners and h fe that imprifrn them ; in the fmall andin the great , in thefer- vants andin their Mafiers ; Thus making an enumeration of all thcfè, from thence he infers , That ifall thefe are quiet, when they are in the grave, thenfurely hiscondition hadbeen fo too I jhould have been quiet and lienflit, then Ifhouldhaveflept,andbeen at refi. We mud here take ,notice , that job 'Speaking ofthe frate of death, (peaks onely in reference to an outward condition, and our elling trop: outward calamities and troubles; he doth not handle taie point at all concerning mans eternal eitate ; For, death is not red to all forts ofmon in thatonce : Kings and Counfellers, and rich men, .6-c. may red frotta the troubles ofthis world, and go to a world ofeverlatling troubles. Such a total refs is the.foleprivi- ledg of the Saints. Thus.only bleffedare the dead which dye in the Lord, from henceforth, yeafáith the Spirit, that they may ref from their Labours, andtheir worksfollow them, Rev. i 4.13. When the Saints dye, they ridfrom their labours, and their works follow their ( through Free-grace) in glorious rewards. .VVhcn the wicked dye, they reh from their labours, but their works follow them through Divine Judice) ineverlatting punifhnients. And
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