6zz Chap. td.. 114 Expofition upon the Bookof Jos. Verfe 13, who will hide me in the Grave ? reco"- Hide me as a Treafure, fo the Original intimates; Treafures Jerehi "c are hidden things, as the Notation bogs of the Greek and Latine tJ4.)9 c the- words teacheth. ATreafure is fubitance or riches laid up for the fauri 4 re- day following, or for the time to come , O that thou wouldeff condendo, f c hide me in the Grave, yet not as Trash but Treafure, notas a rot. .&R` -I' ten Carcafs; but as a precious Jewel : The bodies of Believers are a reponendo Treafure as wellas their Souls, their earthly part is precious aswell quadan diem a their Heavenly. craflirurni.e. The Grave may be taken two ways : Firft Striftly and literally;" açe"v for the P lace of Burial or for thehoufe of Death. reponcren- tar. Druf Whence Note, Sep;tichruari That the Grave is a hiding place, the Crave is a Are hiding of quafi place. n férinium vet When we are once hidden there, we lie open to more vi"- capfa in_ olence : The Grave is a ihel ter from all Storms We need not repo- quay; fear that it will either Rain or Blow through that Houfe;. that's itur çorpa, the reafon why they in theBook of. the Revelation_defiredDeath when the Vials of Gods wrath were pouring out upon,theEarth. Though fome have not been free from the rage of men in the Grave, yet none have felt it. O that thou wo;4ldeft hide me in the Grave ; I have met with this fleain Of forröw before, therefore I do but touch it here._ Secondly, As the Grave in Scripture is taken for the place of theDead, fo for any placewhere the Living are hid, or hide ni acom- themfelves. fecret place is the Grave for se living- man In tunes muni homi of Perfecutions the Saints were forced to bury themfelves alive nxmconfor_ becaufe the malicious Enemy fought their lives, (Heb:r ì.36.) dofuperari They wandredin Defartsq and in Mountains, and in hens, and in five utimmi- Caves of the Earth ; Thtts the oldB oiieve rs were buried! alive --mentiafibi It is faid of Obadiah (a Kings 18.) Th.re he hid the Lords Proms pericula"five phets by fifty in a Cave : There Caves were Graves of livingmen. debitafup- Some understand Yobs meaning of filch a Grave : And that he pli&iadecli- didnot delire Death, but the fecuring of his Life, or to be hid narent, in alive, not to be hid in Death He would be fomewhere in fafe .cavernis eti- cuftody, out.of the reach of thofe troubles which.annoyed him : xm in/epal- The next claufe Both fomewhat favour this fence, í} that thou . ehrishabita- wouldefl hide me in the Grave, re folebant. Bald. .4nd_
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