Chap.3. EIn;Expofrtion upon the Bóok, of J O B. Verf.i3. 4.0s yob refting allured of his own eternal Reft,wi(hes only a reft from ¿perte hi ver- thofe temporal commotions. bi, oftendit fe Further We may obferve four words ufed by Job to ex refs vitarefalira y y p vitafecurum the fame thing. Firft, Ifhouldhave lienflill. Andbeen quiet,there e/fe,ut rontum is a fecond. I wouldhaveflept,there isa third-: and fourthly,Then fuerit foliettes I had been at refl. de quiete a ,Ifhould havelienftill.) The word lignifies to lie down inany rxfinbusca. kind,and it lignifies to fleep, Gen. i 9.4,. Before they lay donn,that is, before they went to bed It is appiyed likewife to the Veep of death, a Sam.7.12.Ifa.4.3.r7.They(hall lie down,they(hall not rife, (that is, they fball dye, fo the next words expound it) They are extintl,they are quenched as tow. upv And been quiet.) Trie word fignifieth allo to be filent,we may Securer fuit z put both together, then had Y lien frill andbeenfilent, and you pace legit, etd. know, deathand the grave are called filence ; I had been like thofe amfilu r that go down into filence (faith the Pfalmift, Pfal.r,5.17.) that is, like thofe that go down into the grave. And Hezekiab in his mour- ningdefcribes that flence,Ifa.38.18. The grave cannotpraife thee, death cannotcelebrate thee. Ifhould haveflept.) Sleep is the image ofdeath , and death is more then the image of fleep ; fleep is a fhort death , and death is a long fleep. Many ofthem thatfleep in the duff of the Earth fhall awake föme to everlafring life, and force to everlaffing contempt, Dan.12.2. OurfriendLazarusfleepeth (-faith Chrift to his Die- ciples, Job. 11. r r.) but I go that I may awake him out of fleep. In the 14 verfe, Jefus raid unto themplainly , Lazarus is dead. Then had I been at reff. 3 We dually fay, when a man goes to fleep,he goes to reft : Yet reft is more then fleep, for fometimes a man fleeps when he doth not reft, his very sleep being troubled, and he troubled in his fleep : But when reft is joyned with flecp it is perfeft fleep. The word here ufed, lignifies a very quiet, fèt- led and peaceable condition : Hence Noah had his name, And he called his name Noah , faying, this fon (hall comfort us, concer- m ning onr work and toyl of cur bands, becaufe of ground which the Lord bath turfed, Gen. 5. 29. He was reft and comfort tothe old world , by preaching righteoufnefs , even the righteoufnefs which is by Faith , which alone gives reft unto the Soul, and is able to re£refh us in the midit ofall thofe toyls and labours which that fiat curie brought upon the World, both new and old. Fff Such
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