Chap. 37. e/f,. Eo: pottion upon the Bookof j o eo. Verf. 20. 59 t do ir, 7hey would fwalloov me up if they could, that is, they would make an utter end of me,or difpatch me quite. So. this word is u- fed in feveral other places ( Ifa.2S.7.) They are fwailowed up of wino. Some fwallow down the wine fo long,till the wine [wallow-. eth them up, the wine gets the tnaflery over them, and they are no longer (as we (peak proverbially ) their owes men. The Apo- file gives order concerning the incefluous perfon that had been cafl cut of the Church (2 Cor. z. 5.) receive him ( faith he )' leghe befwnrloo'ed up of over-much forrow, that is, left forrow get the maftery of him. It is not good that the floods of forrow { thou;h it be a furrow for fin) r(i,sould prevail over us, fo as to fiw.dlowus up in the gulph of dcfpair. Again, while the Apo file affures u , and Would have us triumph in that affurance, that death (hall never do a godly man any hurt, he thus exprefleth it (s Cor. i ;, 54.) Death : fwallowed upin viblory, that is, in and by the vielory' of 3e( Chrifi:H:,by dying,quire overcamedeath; he did not only wound it, and wort# it, or get thebetter of ir, or rout ir, but totally ruin'd ir, as to any power of hurting us ; ali which, and vi hatfoever elfe concerns the death of death, and the deflruaionof the grave, is wrapt up in that one word, Death (wallowed up in "vi5itory. And therefore alto it is Paid by the fame Apoflle, (2 Cor. 5; 4.n) t%lortality j7allbe fwallowed top ofLife. Jefus Chrifl hath brought in filch a life 'through the Gof'e1, as titanat lafl put an utter end to Mortality. Our Mortality now by degrees puts an end to, or fwalloweth up our Lives, but then Life will quite fwalíiowup,or put an end to our Mortality ; that is, our Mortality (hall bequite removed and taken our of he way, by that Life which Chritl ha h purchafed for his neorle by his own death._ All thefe Scriptures (hew the force ofthe ;turd, here uîed by Elihte, when he faith, Ifa man(peak, furely hefall be fivçllort7- ed up. I,Fa man [peak; Ho" ? ce. to c. hotn ? The anfwer 11'4 man (áeak to God, he "N1' be fwailowéd tap. But (half every one har tnf.=ks to `xód be I tNallenved un ? Not fo ; therefore we muf'} go ro the manner cf If a man fpeak to Go,' ,'nc>t keeping his ui"trnca,, if a miti fpeak without w f4Lt<.Iiatou, ' p ,+,Ih f-ealloe- ed up, as a.drop of water is fu-allowed up o ae Ocean, or as :a fpark
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