6oz Chap. r4. An .Exposition upon the Boo(of Jos. Verfe 3 r upon the Ears and makes themDeaf, and fo takes in now this Member, and anon that, till it conquer the whole man. Death hath its Forerunners and Harbingers, Sickneffes and Difeafes A fick difeafed man bath many Symptoms of Death upon him . before be gives up the Ghofl : When he gives up that all is given up, Death entershis Fort, ands takes full poffeilion of him. Andwhere ù he ? Vbi eft ? The Qieflion feems to carry a Negation in it, man is nowhere,:; Nullibi, ut He is not tranfplanted as Trees fometimes are, and fet in another inde redire ground. But is that goodly thing, man, quite gone, andvanished potadcan- to a nothing when hedieth ? That which is no where is nothing. demvi_ There mull be force place for every thing : Every entity muff tam q£14371 have its ubi, every what its where : Therefore to fay man is ncc (emel reli- where, is tofay 'man is nothing, or to affent to a total Mortality ryuit. Nora bothof Soul and Body : Wemuff therefore reflrainwhere rshe ? 7 Tulanon he City, is Home or World ? he is not him the man Country, up efzz invivis. , Abroad, had, Ora. the Ghofl, andwhere is he ? I might here give Obfervations about theMortalityof Man, but havingdone it lately, ver. a, z. I will not do it again. Note Firff, In general. Man tt a wafting, dying Creature: He hath received a life which he muff fhortiy render and repay. Secondly, whenman dieth, himfelf and all his glory are gone, gone for ever out of this World. Where is he ? He and his Riches, he andhis Honour, he and his Wifdom, what's become of all his Designs, Devices, Coun- fels and Thoughts, (Pfal. 46.) Trufl not in Princes, nor any of theChildren of Men, their Breath At in their Nof>zrils, they die, and then alltheir Thoughts pert:(h. The things which they have con- trived inorproduced out of their Thought,,, thofe curious Fa- bricks of the Brain fall and die with them. So much of yobs Difiimilitude. The Similitude follows in the two next Verfes, lobs Difcourfe moves from the Root andSprigs of a {tee,: to the Seas and Wa- ters. Verfe
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