dd Char. t v, , A» ENpolt o» upon tin Book of I OD. Veer: ad, death unmakes us, Hence the raffle word in die °reeke that fignifies tounmake, tgnifies »lib to dyes beeaufe death is the unmaking of every creature that lives, Min is unmade mart by the ftrit aft ofdeath 3 That retinues foule and bodge and this makes himnot ant The foule alivne is not fan, the hod without the foule is not man ; Therefore the dlfunlonOfthe unmakes thin, And when death bath unmade man, bydisjoy. ping fouleand body, it proeeed4 o notbake the body, Though death candoe no more to the foule then feperate it from the body, yet it can doe much more to the body then feperate it from the foule, Death confumes the body when 'tis along, ie pulls one m:m'er- from another, till it prevaileth over all ; as an old building is pulled downy peice after peice , till all be layd in duft and rubhifh ; not onely loth it fade the beauty, anddeface the skin, but it enters into the bones, and fucks the 07T0,,greirASPat.. marrow, The Apoftle Tetertreth a wordof this fenfe; while he fpeakes ofour death to fir; (t Pet. 2. 24. ) Who his awne felfe, b.tre our,jianes in his owne badie on the tree,that webeing decd' tofna &c. (fo we tranflace) the word is, that we being unmade, or c Ana fe to fn every converted foule is united to, or made up in Chrift,. and unmake to fin, that is dead to fin Now as fpi- rituall death to fin, is theu inakingofa man, the pulling him in peices in regardofwhat he was, the unmaking of his finfull natire, that he may be made up again by grace ; fo naturali death is the unmaking ofthe body, There was never any body made, but death ( according to common appointment of God) h.d or hath a power to urn make it, one excepted, which one was the body of Jefus Chrift, Some indeed, as moth and Elias were tranfated and did not fee death ; and others, though they dyed, vet were 1.aiiled ife by the power of God before death did aétua':ly unmake or con- fume theirbodyes ; But there was never any body which being dead, deathhad not a power to consume. bat onely the body of Jefus Chrift. And therefore the Apoftle (A1h 2. 24. ) puts is as a fpeciall excepted cafe : Chaift dyed, but death could not d,ewith his body, as 70bfuppofed it might with his, deflroy his skin and reins; For ( faith he) Cod railed him úp, hiving !%o- fd the paiaes ofdeath, The' k:wiginall which %e render painet, comtneth froma' roote, which fignifieth bands or coard.: : for death
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