58+ Chap. io. AN Expof tien upon the Bookof JO B. Verf.22. God is ever like himfelf in all he doth,and every thing we do is then bell, when it is done moll like to what God Both. Andof thefhadow ofdeath, without any orders or, The Jhadow of' death, andnot orders. The word which we tranflate order, is frequent in the Rab- bi ns:The holy Ttxt bath it only in this place,and here in the plu- =--1"1tZ51 rail number,A land of darknefi,andthejhadow of death, and with- Et nanordinCt out any orders, a land unordered. There's no government,no me- thod in the grave. And if it hath.no:order, then it hat] nothing in it but- contufion, nothing but diforder. That the grave, or the aebrei ad vi flateofdeatl is without any order,may be underflooel two wayes, car diet '';.r Fira, Without order, becaufe it bath no changes or vic f i- no8ir, ;pis tudes in it, there is no difference in the gravebetweenaaight and et hienit &c. day, winter and fummes, hot and cold, wet and dry, between referent. the riling and letting of the Sun : This is the order which God !err Hour. bath fet in nature ; and when the flood had put all things into a Jun. kinde of confufion, God prornifed, thatfeed time and.harve }a-, andcoldandbeat,fummer and winter,day and night Jhould not ceaf e, thatis,there fhould be an everlafling order continued in the crea- ture. The dead know none of thofe changes and vicifiìtudes_; as much of the vanity, fo force of the comforts .of this life contill' in changes; but all is alike in death. Secondly, There is no order in going to thegrave; men do not keep to a rule in dying, nor obferve their ranks. The old go not alwayes fiat, and then the young ; the great before,and the mean following after. Death hath nomatter of the Ceremonies; but :takes.promifcuoully, hereachilde, and therea man , here atich man, and there a beggar. And as there is no order in going thi- ther, fo none whenwe are there.; the grave minglcth the duff, and bones ofone with another; We cannotditlinguifh the rich mans dull from the dull of the poor, nor the bonesofKings from thofe of the loweft fubjeft. Though rich menare buried in more eminent places, and Kings under . flately Monuments;though their Tombs differ from their inferiours, yet their bones do,no'. An oldPhilofopher was obferved fearching a cæmitery.,indprying bufily among the. Tombs, and being asked, what. he looked for, anfwered, I come to fee if.d can finde the duffofrich - men,and.the bones of Princes,but 1 cannot fee which is which ;thedufl.of the rich and:of thepoor,ofPrinces and peafants,awreall alike tómy eye. And
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