4qq verf Expofition upon the Bookof J Q B; Chap. That force take in their life timemore care for their Sepulchres, then they do for their Souls.Here are great men,what do they?They build drfolateplaces,they will be fureto have ftately monuments ?' .And they hadgold, they will be Pure to fill their graves with trea- fure, they will be buried richly, or they will have their riches bu- ried with them : But what care did. thefe take for their poor Souls in the mean time , where they fhould lie ? Had they taken. order what Ihould become of their Souls ? When all things are difpofed of,thischoice piece for the moft.part is left undifpofed of unprovided for. Some will carefully provide for their children, they,will provide for their families,they will provide for their dead bodies, for their carkaífes, but for their imttortal Souls there is no provifon made : While their bodies are alluredof a reftingplace, they may fay of, and to their departingSouls (as that trembling Emperour befpake ,his) 0 our poor fleeting wandring Souls , whither are yougoing ? where is the place of your ref :? As it is faid of.Alaflom in the place before cited, Re in hie lifetime bad reared up pillar (a Monument, or a Tomb) for himfelf in the, Kings dale : What a careful Prince was this for his body ! But how care- lets was this Prince for his Soul !'He will have a Pillar to preferve his name, and yet runs out in rebellion againft his own father, to the deürudion of his Soul.. The great bufinefs of the Saints on Earth,is to get affurance ofa place for their Souls to lodge in when they dye :. It troubles them not much what lodging their bodies have, if they canput their fpirits into the hand of Chrift : What though their bodies be cali upona.dunghil,or trodden upon , like- ACtIW jhara mire in the lhreets, by cruel men ? A Heathen Paid, The lofs of a fpalchri, Funeral,or cfa Sepulchre,may eafily be born ; I am fire a. Chriftian may : that lofs will never. undo any man,efpecially not thole who believe.For in the perfon offilch the Apofile fpeaketh 2 Car, 5.2 We know, that if our earthly houfe of this Tabernacle were diffolved; we, have a building of God, an houfe not made with hands, ete^nal in the Fleavens. All that rich worldlings,and-ungodlygreat ones,caw laywhen they dye,. is, We know when the earthly hozofe , f this Ta- daernacle,(hall be diffolved, we have a building of man, a ¡lately Tomb made with hando,and with all theskill of the cunning Ar- tificer : We have Peen it done already, .or .we have taken order in - our wills to have it done.The Believer erects his Pillar in Heaven, and ,his whole life is a,prepatation for his houle which is above ; And often he_fettles the bufinefs fo, that.he can fay,._ I know that when
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