Chap. 14. efln Expofition upon the Took,of J O B. Vert. 14. this or that man , but of rnankinde. Death brings achange to all , to good and bad , to beleevers and to infidels though the change which it brings to there differing perlons be as dillèrent as their natures. When the Saints die , they have a change , and no change : as a Worthy among% us once laid , when he was ready to die, 1 ¡hall change my place bat not my company : I !hail have a new houle but my old fociety The Saints converfe with God , they live with God , while they live in the world , they converfe with Chrift and have communion with the fpirit , they converfe (among men) chiefly with good men on earth and with tall there they (hall converfe in heaven , here is no change yet the Saints have a great change , and a blefí'ed one when they die : they change from all outward evils , all their troubles ihall be removed , they change alto from fpiritual evils , all their corruptions fhatl remove there !hail not be fo much as. any fin or any remnant of fin remaining in them , when they re- move from hence : here is a happy change : yea, they fhall have not only no fin in them,but no temptation without them: no Satan to tempt, as well as no corruption to fide with temptation : when wicked men die they have á change too, but it is a miferable .change : theirs is a change from evil to worfe, from had to worft of all ; They have a change from fading comforts to ladl- ing forrow : or they have a change from temporary forrows toeverlafting forrows ; Son , remember (faith eflbraham in the parable to `Dives) that thou in thy life time haft received thy good things thou faredit delicioufly every day, thou waft cloathed with purpleand fine linnen, but fee thy change : thou who hadit a table fpread and furnilhed with delicate meats, thou who hadita cup brimfull, yea running over with delicious wines, now thou haft not fo much as a drop of water to cool thy tongue°. This is the change which wicked men fhall have in death , from pleafure to pain or from fhort pains to eternal-pain , from a, few moth-eaten, worm-eaten, dying, decaying delights, to thofe griefs which cannot die, to thofe griefs which as a worm thall- gnaw upon their fouls and confciences worfe then death. Some wicked men are as miferable as they are wicked in this world ;, The wickd travel with pain all their days (chap.' S.) yet they !hall travel with greater pain when they die : their prefent forrows are but the beginning offorrows : now they doe but Cap of that cop, which they muff drink updregs and all for ever. Death. 629
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