ap. t o. AnExpofition upon the Book, of J O B. Vere 9. 511 give immortality to the bodies of the Saints in glory ; they who have had a will to delight in obeying God that fhort time they lived on earth, {hall havea power to live for ever in delight,prai- ting God in heaven. The body of man in the (late ofinnocencyhad an immortality' by the gift of God ; yet with condition, that he did fubmit to that rule which Gcd gave him to live by . Do this and live, was the law of Adams lîfe. Adam had not an impoffibility to die,but a per.ldoent¡muJhabuíe a po» poflibility not to die ; this was the flate of immortality in the moríend¡, non {late of innocency. Man had not fallen into the grave, ifhe had inporent¡ont not fallen into tranfgrcflion. His life was made as long as his obe- ed cii dience; if he had not turned fromGod, he had not turned to the ec- P earth. Death was convaied in by fin;and our poffibilitynet to die ,'e uítmfrro U was not only loft, but changed into a neceffity of dying. So then, non pawn 11871 man is brought to dufi,not becaufe his nature was fubje6 to cor- mori. ruption,but becaufe fin hath corrupted his nature. Whenhe abu- ` ¡yunque dá: fed the liberty ofhis will, he was fubjefted to this neceffity a- p ¡eruma omt'. gainft his will. By an irreverfible ordinance of heaven, /t is ap- pointed unto men once to die, Heb. 9.27. job speaks, to that point frt1um,irautfe_ of Gods law concerning man, Thou bait made me as the clay, and Veweccaret_ thou wilt bring me into the duff again. ve non weal- Thus the words are taken asan affertion of the power and pri- iniórmorerh r viledge of God, to unmake and pull down man, whom he had oft, do rorpgre_ made and let up. exiret nonpec- If we read the words byway of intorregation or admiration : cart merito, fed fo Job Items to intend them as an allay to mittigate theprefent fe- tá r earba- veri:y of the Lords proceeding with him, Thou haft made me of ma f:, caneit.' *be elay,but a while ago,and wilt thou bring me. into the duff again? Melivit,can.r Okare me a little before Igo bence;and{hall befern no more: Itwill not be long before there mutt be an end of me, O let me have a more comfortable being and breathing,while Jam here. WhenSatan provoked the Lord againft Ìeruf;Jlem, to defiroy it, the Lord anfwered (Zech. 3.2.) Is not this a brandplucks out of the fire? As if he had laidunto Satan,Art thou moving me to throw this people into the fire of afllif,Iion, out of which they were fo lately fiiatcht? Jerufalemwas in the fire but a while ago, and {hall I call it in again ? fob pleads in the fame form, though not in the fame mater, I'was clay but the other day, and Lotd, (hall I to duff again to day ? Let me fee fume quiet days, before I flee the endof my days. Gild over this clay of mine with the fhininsx..
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