slap. r 7. AnExpofition upon the Book ofJ OB. trerf, a , 49.7 full of traubles, and my life draweth nigh to the grave, I am ac- counted with them that go down into the pit ; I am as a man of uo /í?rengb,free among the dead, like theflain that lie in the grave, whom thou.remembreff no more, and that are cut off from thy fight: That Scripture may be a Comment on this,My breath it corrupt, my dayes are extinii,thegraves are readyfor me. Further, Job (peaks in the plural number; he lath not the grave is ready for me, but, Tbegraves are ready for me. Why , how-many graves mull fob have ? Would not one'grave hold him I Or,was Job covetous to have many graves?Many boufes will notfervesome men-when they live,b,ut one houfe will firve any man when he dieth. A little room will hold thofe dead , for whole covetous and ambitious minds the whole World was not roomthy enough whyle they lived. Ordinary men will have here their Winter houles , and their Sommer - houles, their City houfs, -and their Country-houfe, their houles on the Plain, and their houles on the Hill; men have variety - -of houles while they live ; but one.is all when dead : Why then Both lob fay, The [graves ] are readyfor me ? He faith it to thew that death abounded to his apprehenlion or that he could not escape death: As ifhe had faid,Wherefota ver I Set my foot,I flept upon a grave.The Poet defcribing a 1 im41":- Tragical State, faith, There was much of death tobe feet: , or many appearances cfdeath. lob few deaths, and beheldgraves every where gaping for him. Paul was in deaths often, and Jobwas in many deaths atonce : The graves are ready, there are many Pits making , I am lure to fall into one,there's no a=.. voiding it Learn from it, Fifty That, In times officknefi andofi£tion,difeourfés ofthegrave are the moft feafonable.difcourfes. Death thould be much in. our thoughts , and much in our fpeech at all times, but moil ofall in times of ficknefs., or of danger. Some when they are tick , cannot abide to hear -a conanausi word fpoken.ofthe grave ; others will forbid such as. come lib.io. So vifit the dick, to fpak a word ofdeath. Lewis the eleventh King ofFrance, was fo exce(fively afraid of death , that .he had given command to his Attendants not togive him any warning;pf the approach ofthis his -lä41 EnemybyName,.-. It was
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