Chap,i7. An Expofitionupon the Book of J OB. Verf.r3, 525 yob in this placeapprehended it unfeafonable for him to wait for thole worldly attainments and en joyments which his Friends promiled him ; but he was not unwilling to tar- ry the Lords leisure, nor was he difpleafèd with God for afe fliding him, nor did he fay God could not help him, much let's did he turn from God to any wicked way to help him- felf, when he Paid, ff./wait, the Grave is mine house. Secondly, Observe from it. Agood man maygive up all bis worldly expellations. A Believer may in this fenfe be an unbeliever, and lay down all his hopes in this life, of long life and of good dayes, of riches and temporal greatness : When Friends bid fuch on their tick beds,Beofgosdcbear, we hope tofeeyou abroadfhort ly ; we hope Godwill raifeyou up again, they will even forbid thole comforts,andfsy,do not entice us backinto theWorldwith theft hopes,the Graves are readyfor us,andwebave made our bed in thedarknefs', it áa notfor AS to lookfor life bere, indeed to live to us is Ch:ifi, but to dye is gain. ABeliever can willinglypart with all earthly pof eflions for heavenly hopes, much more can he joyfully part with all his earthly hopes for thepoffef fion of Heaven. Thirdly from theseexprdlions, The Grave i, my boufe, have mademy bed in the darkness. Note. A Believer look,! upon death asa fiveof refl. As the whole houle is a place of reti compared with the world abroad, fo the Bed is the special place of refs (Revel:. at}. /4.) Bleffed are the deadwhich dye in the Lord,from hence. forth they restfrom their labours, and their works follow them ? They (hall follow their workno more, whoare followed by their works. The Grave is the houle and bed of the body to all who dye : Heaven is the houle and tell of the Soul to all thole who dye in the Lord. Saints have here a reft in their. labours, they (hall hereafter havea rest from their labours. Laflly, whereas the bed of death is made in dark nefs. Observe. There is nothing desirable in death as confidered initlelff A dark condition is the worft condition : darkness which. in Scripture fignifies all evil is a. ward good enough toex., press
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