Chap. 33, An E.zpofition upon the.Book_of J o s. Verf. 25 HeJFall retorne as in the doges ofhis pouth. That is, he.fhallnot barely recover his health , and get epon. his !eggs againe (as we fay) he fhall not meerely efcape death and the grave, but heshall have an addition of bodily ability, he naafi, as it were, be young againe. As licknefs makes a young man look clild , fo recovery from fickneicmakes the oldman look young. That's to retorne to thedayes ofhis youth. Hence Note ; Firfi. Badly beauty," health andflrengtk are the gift ofZ;od. He gives them, and takes themaway at pleafure, or having ta- ken them away, he cangive them backe when he pleafeth. He kills andhe makesalive, he bringetb downe to the Çrave,,and bring_ eth up, as Hannah fayd in her Song ( 1 Sam: 2.6.) Hots 16w foever a man is brought by fickneCs, either proper or meiaphori- call, the Lord is able to rayfe him up againe. We read (v. at. ) in how pitiful( aplight, the Fick man was, how rather like a car- kalle then a living man he lookt, His flefh was.confumed, that it couldnot be feene, and his bones which werenot feene,flood out ; as much as to fay,He was nothing boo sbjn and bones; yet,when. in that cafe all hopes were gone, and all natural helps fayled , it was no hard matter with God to cure him. When the skill of the Phyfi- clan, and the vertue ofmedicines fayle,thepower of God fayleth not. As it is in reference to thofe outward dangers and defile rateexigents, which wemeete with in this worldby enemiesand perfecurors, whenwe idols upon our (elves as dead men, when all hope of deliverance -feems pall & c_one,then the Lord alwayes can andoften doth deliver. The Apoüle gives us his experience of it ( a Car: I. y, ro. ) We had thefentence ofdeath in our felves .; be fpake not thus in regard of fickneCs, but of trouble and per fecution ; As if he had fayd, The malice and wrath of our ene- mies was fuch, that we.thought we fhould never efcare, we had the (entente ofdeath inour relves,but providence fuf e.red it tobe fo, that we fhould not tru,lf in our (elves, but ìn God who rayfeth the dead. As it is (I fay ) in filchdangers, fo in dangerous deadly fickneffes ; when a poore creature hash the fentence of death in himfelfe, when he makes no other reckoning but todye,as good KingHezekjah ayd ofhimfelfe in his fickneCs (Ifa: 38,11. ) I H h h rec- 417
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