V Chap. 3g. AnExpof:tion upon the Book of J o B Verf. t,. t 53 ged by temporary punifhtnents , before they can get to hea, ven. Thirdly, TheLowell of all , is that which we call Hell , the place of the damned , whither all go (fay they, and we too) who die in fin without repentance. This place of torn: e,c, orne take fo- the gates of death. But feting the Lord is here fpeaking ofna- tural things , not of moral aetions, nor of the confequencs of them, rewards and punifhments therefore ( though we may truly call Hell the gates or power of death , yet) that notion as well as the former is altogether heterogeneal in this Text. Thirdly , Several expound the gates of death, in connexion with the former verfe , for the depth or bottom of the tea where many dead carafes lie rotting; all fuch as are call away by fhipwracks, or die at tea , being ufually thrown into the deep ; and thereforeat tall the lea (hall give up her dead , as well as the earth. Fourthly, The gatesof death fignifefay others, nothing elfe but the grave , or thofe lower parts of the earth , in which mens bodies deceafed are buried and laid up to tea till the refurreS i- rer,ortarm9r- on. When we,that are earth in our confiirution, go out of the tisinulliiunrut world by diffolution, our return is into the earth, into the lower tocafubrerra- parts of theearth , we deep in the duff. Acco ding to this fenfe neana, ed quad it is as if the Lord had raid , Hafy thou teen the fiats of the dead, 1 áintur.Yfc. or how it fares with them that aregone to their graves ? Haft thou Dicunturports vifited the courts and palaces of the King of terrors ? Thus the mortis, i. e. gates of death are the gates of the dead. mortuorum. Fifthly , We may underhandby the ratesof 'whin general, An noßi qua whatfoever is moll remote and farthefl: off from our fight andAnt in Info' view. As if the Lord,who raid before, Haft thou cntred into the ribes terra, fprings of the fea ? had laid here , Haft thou entred into. the Vatabl, bowels or deepeft abyfJ'es of the earth , which are dart; and un- comfortable , as thegrave, or like the very gates of death ? Know- eft thou, or cash thou cell ma what is done , or hold things go there ? Poets mortis Or hall thou Peen the doors of the fhadowof death? Vamore mortisfuntea Therewords are of a like intendmentwith the former : The loca,adyu,evi- gatesof death, and the doors of the fhadow of death, are the fame pene- trat, qua nulla aping undera littledifference o£ expreifion. What the thadow fur itradiat, X of &gc.Coc.
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