Chap. 1 o. AnExpofitian upon the Book of J O B. serf. 9. 509 and now l charge this burden upon thee, tbóujhalt return to the duJi again. It is a ()_,ueflioti (and I fhall touch upon it.) Whether death were natural to manor no ? Whether man were made mortal, or whether he made himfelfmortal ? Some affirm, That death was natural, not accidental, or occafìonal to man-kind. They argue for this opinion. Firfl,,thus, Adam died not the death of thebody, or a natural death, when he had finned, therefóre the death of the body was not infliaed for fin upon his perfòn, and his pofierity, but was feated in, or a confequent of his nature. I anfwer, ThoughAdam died not prefently a natural death, yet he visas prefently made fribjea or liable unto death; the fen- tence was pall upon him, though the fentence was not executed upon him. A malefaaor who is call at the barre, is a dead man in law, though he be reprieved from the prefent frroke of death. Again,Though death it felldid not inflantly reizeupon him,yet the fymptoms of death, and tokens of mortalitydid. Fear' and fhame,pains, anddiflempers,fweat and wearinefs quickly (hewed themfelves as fo many harbingers or forerunnersot hisapproach- ing ditfolution : we fee and feel death in thefe, before we fee or feel death it fell. Thefe bid usprepare our bodies for the grave, and our fouls for heaven. Secondly, Others reafon thus, Chril hath delivered his peo- ple, theElea, from all that punifhment, which the finof Adana, did contrail anddeferve;.but Chrifl hash not delivered his Elea, his own people, from turning to thedull. Godly men die as well as the ungodly, believers as well as infidels, therefore (fay they) the death of the body was not procured by fin. I anfwer, Whatfoever is an evil in deáth,Chriffhathdeliver- ed his people from ; he hath taken away all that from death, which is punifhment or annoyance,though death be not taken away. Chrifi hath freed us from the effects of fin, as he hath freed us from fin it felf, that is, from their prevalence and domi- nion over us, not from their prefence orbeing in and upon us. Hence the Apollle (t Gar: a5.) triumpheth over death, 0 death, where it thyRing? 0 grave, where it thy victory ? M if he had faid, Death once had a power over man to fling him to death, death oncehad a vi1orious power,and wouldhave been the great conquerotat
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