Chap. t6. AnExpofition upon the Book of J 0 B. Verti6. 325 bers up (even atthe eleventh Verfe of that Chapter, For this felffame thing thatyeforromed after a godlyfort, what careful_ nefs it wrought inyou,yea what clears tgofyourfelvet, &c.Now I fay, as Godly [arrowmanifefts it pfelf in manifold effeas upon the foul, fo doth the farrow of the world fet its marks upon the body : As a good mans heart is made clean by wee, ping the tears ofgodly farrow , fo every mans face is made foul by weeping the tears of worldly 'forrow; and as god. ly forrow worketh repentance unto falvation and life eter- nal, fo the forrow of the world worketh an entrance to temporardeath; yea, we may fay that godly farrow doth fometimes work temporal death ; Paul was afraid left the incefruousperfon while he was repenting, might be Swallow - eduef with overmuch forrow (ìCor. 2.7.)' which as we are to unde ftand chiefly of a fwallowing up in the gulf of de- fpair, fo we may take in that alto as a confequent of the o- ther, a fwallowingof him up in the grave of death as if he had Paid, the poor man may both defpair and dye under "this burden, ifyou let it lye too long upon him. As Coon as Heman had faid, (in his defertion) lliyfoul is full of trou bles, he prefently adds, And my life draweth nigh unto, the Grave, I am counted with them thatgo down to the pit,free a. mang the dead (Pfal:s 8.3,4,5.) To which he fubjoynes (v. 9.) Mine eye mottrneth by reafon ofofiition,and then expoftu- lates(verf,to. )Wilt thouPhewwonders to the dead? (hall` the dead arifeandproife thee? Asifhad faid, Thefe farrows will bring me to my Grave, or in the language ofjob,onmy eye-lids is the (hadow of death. Till we enjoy a life beyond the reach of all furrows, we (halt not be beyond the reach of death. Hence that promife (2tevel. 21. 4.) God(hall wipe away ail t earesfrom their eyes, and there fhall be no more death, neitherfarrow nor crying,nei ther (hall there be any more pain:And as that life whichhath no death in it,fhall have no forrow in it, fo that life which is a continual death (the life of the damned)is nothing cite but forrow. There (hall be weeping and wayling, andgnafhi ng of teethfor evermore (Mat.13.42.) Their eyes fhall ever weep their faces (hall ever be foul with weeping, and on their eye*, lids, the fhaddow of death {hall dwell for ever. Fourthly, The hand of God being heavyupon lob, be de- filed
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