Chap. 19. An Bxfofition upon the Booke of J OB. Verf 2$. up ; in oppolition to which a dead body is ( in all the learned adzvPr, dríFü Languages ) expreffed boa word that fanen thellearel fro a cadendo, ve! a dead body is a falling y, body ut aden taro ve! whence it was firm railed ; or it is fl: ?, green to the wormer , as to alt, ,," fome make the Latine word found, by a nice d,Prinufion of each Fir ,TQt7aa fyllable to a word. 4c a, Greg Now, faith lob, My redeemer liveth,and fhalllive,he livetio idem JonGr. be (hallfland at the latter day. Jfus Chrft was a body, when he dyed ; but he conquered death, andbccatne a ¡landing body again, and(hallflat-dd e../it the latter day upon the earth. TheHebrew is laß or latter upon the earth, our tranflaters 71-1; ¡¡ l adde the word day in a different letter, both to diflinguifh it Yo¡terror po from the expreffe termes of theoriginall Text, as alto to deter- J! rem e rie t r am mine what they apprehended as the proper fenfe and (copeofthe Tbeodo l ver- place. tit nov; imè. The latter or laßdayes in Scripture are taken three wages, Pir(t, More generally for the time following;or for hereafter. That a htch the Prophet 7oelexpreffeth thus; It ¡hall come to paffe afterward, th.,it I will powre out my Spirit Upon all flefh, (Chap. 2. 28,) is cited by the Apoftle (AEts 2. 17.) It (hall come topaffe in the laß dayes, &C. Secondly, The latter dayes containe all Gofpell time, or all that ttme elapfed fince Chrift came &was revealed in the flefh, which, though the Gofpel was publifhed prefently after the fall, (Gen. 3. is.) isftriFtly called the Göfpel -time, in.oppofìtion to the legal( alniniftrations. So we may underhand the old Patriarke 7acob ( Gen. 49. i.) When he called unto his Tonnes and Paid, Gather your (elves together,that Imay tellyou what (hall Fink dieruns befallyou in the laft d"ayes;that is,at the coming of the t...21effias, or dnotat extre- when Shiloe comes, as he fpeakech ( Vert. to. ) Though withall mot dies, rive . hcob intends there a prophecy to his formes of their [late in all 'emPxt Meta. times following or as the Hebrew elegancy expreffeth it, la S toed; 'the pofteritie ofdayes, which Scripture phrafe notes alto any or all time to come, as was toucht before. Thus the Apoftle fpeaks of the latter times (r Tim, 4. 1.) andof the laff dayes (2,Tim.3. z.) Thefe dayes are called lafl ; Firft, becaufe all was then con -, fttmmated, which was prophecied concerning the worke of mans. 333
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