516 Chap.t7. AnExpofition upon the Book of JOB. Verf.13 fgyptij de home to his houfe for, tea : fore tell us that yob calls the funliorumfe- Grave his houfe, inallufion to thole forms of making. Graves pulchra,domot orSepulchers, ufed in ancient °( which are alfo continued in litant. apps¡ there) times, with arches, and contrivances like 'a houfe:, litart.Diodor' lib, t. 1 Andbave made my bed in darknefr. J intelligi porefi He (peaks (till inprofecution of the allufion : In a houfe de ¡elio bens there are Dining Rootnes, and there are peeping Roomes s ornatefuper there it the Bed- Chamber, and the Bed in the Chamber. The fiem reponi Grave is my houfe (faith job)and there I have a Bed, I have folebant prrnei- pumeadavera made it : firlufoteis,quod (In the darknefs ) juxt a lick,: _ nm itt plat ali The Grave is adark place and the Grave is called Dark- eata, liravi nefs in a double refped#. grata rasa, magnfuum Fail, Besaufe there is no light of the body there quidfont Qg Secondly, Besaufe there is-no light of the Sun there. Ponppartrur7. The light of the body is the eye, and the light of the aire Sold, is the Suns but in the Grave the Sun (hines not, or if it did, yet there theeye fees not, therefore the Grave is darknefs d bave made mybed in the darknefr.: And darknefs is molt fit for abed, sleep loves darknefs : A working Room mull be light, but 'cis no matter how dark a Beeping Room be whenwe go to fleep, ifit be not dark, we make it dark, that fo we may fleep the better. The Apostle gives that as an ar> gument why the Saints should not fleep as do others,becaufe they were once darknefs, butnow light in the Lord. He that is in aerial light can hardly get his body to Beep, and will you whoare in fpirîtual light compote your fouls to fleep ? All forts of Beepers covet the dark, and therefore theywho Beep in death,are elegantly defcribed making their bed indarknefs; fo that they may have (as it were) all-ac- commodations for their refs, Ihave mademy bed in the dark, nefs. It may be queflioned. (towards the clearing ofthis Verse) Did Mot. job wait ? Why döth he fay, If Iwait ? Was he upon I#fs or ands about that great and neceffary duty ? He refolved peremptorily (Chap. iq 14.) All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come : And is he fo much changed already intoan unrefohvednefsabout his wait- ing,
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