---------; 404 Chap ,3. 17nExpof tionupon the Bookof J OB. weep over Lazarus becaufe he was dead, bait becaufe he was to Chrißrsr non be railed up again to feel the burdens and aflliCions ofthis life: that p!oravit,La- was their apprehenfion ofit. And it is a truth , that whofoever ' dortu- lives the common lifc ofNature lives in trouble : But fuch is not atrfedad hu. as:vita- e_ the life ofhimwho is raiCed from the dead : The lives of fuch, mamas playa though here upon the Earth, muff needs lie out ofthe common vitrefuffitan' cóurfè : And what their condition is,is fucka ferret as we cannot íam,cbtert underftand but by enjoying it. `Sslet. tent, Y Again, From that particular exprefíion, in that he faith,Ifhould, haveApt, we may obferve," That as death it is the ref .ofthe whole matt, fo death it isthe ficepof the body. So you find it often in the Scripture; Our friend Lazarus fllepeth, faith Chrifi, when he was dead, job. a1. And the Apoille, 1 Thef. }: 13. I would not haveJots ignorant concer- ning thofè which fleep , that is concerning thofe who are dead. Lighten mine eyes ( faith David) left I fleep the fleep of death_, or as the Hebrew ; Left I fleep death , Pfal. 13. 3. And hence the grave is called a bed, ¡Ja. 57. 2. the righteous are taken away', &c. theyfhall enter intopeace, they(hall ref: in their beds. When a righteous man dyes or is takenaway, he is but gone to bed.There- fore we call thofe places where the dead are layd up and buried, dormitaries,or fleepingplaces. Both, the Greek and Latin words tat¡iriorjup tneet in the fame li nitication. Dormitorium, g Some ofthe Ancients were ofOpinion,that this sleep took hold ofand feiz'd upon all man , namely upon his Soul as well as upon his Body ; aßèrting that the Soul is in a fleep or ¡lumber , that is, that theSoul from the time of its dif=union from the Body until the Refurredion,lies fti.11 without anymotion or operation.. grant 'that many operations of the Soul do ceafe when it parteth from the Body. There are Come ads of the Soul which are organical, and there are other acts that are inorganical or immaterial: The orga- nical ans, that is, whatfoever the Soul as by the members ofthe Body, thofe ads I fay muff needs ceafe ; but the Soul can ad ofit fedf.without the alhftance ofthe Body ; as we may collect by ma- ny experiments while our Bodies and Souls are joyned together. How oftendo we find our Souls at work , when our . Bodies lie hill and donothing ; when fleepbinds up all our fenfes,and flints up the windows ofthe Body fo dole, that we can, neither ,hear no fee:. .yet then the Soul frames to it felfand beholds a.thoufand various thapes, and heats all fonts offounds and. voy.ces; then the Soul...
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