362 Chap ; 19 . Expofition upon the Booke of JO B. Verf. 26. of death , alwayes in the grave we had been loft for ever. As the Apoftle argueth, i Cor, 15.1f Chri fit be not rifer,ycurfaith, t vaine,yee areyet inyyourfirms!. Weliad been ftill under the power of fpiritaall death, ifChrift had been held by that cor- poraii death. Therefore it was impotfïble (becaufe Chrift was to carry the worke ofour redemption through) that he fhould be held downe by thecoards of death, though he fubmitted to d} e. So then here is thediffererìce. The body ofJefus Chrift. was not deftroyed and totally unmade by death, death could not fend in its Armies of wormes to eate up his flefh and con- fume his reines, no nor fo much as in the leaft to corrupt his body, as the fame Apofile expreffeth it (verf. 27. out of the 7'falme)Thouwilt not leave myfoul in hell, nor wilt fuffer thy holy One tofee corruption. He fuffered his holy one to dye ; but hedid not Puffer him to fee corruption, that is, to feele corruption, or be under the power ofcorruption. Therefore Jefus Chrift rofe the third day ; and he rofe upon the firft account, that it could becalled the third day ; he lay as little time in the grave,, as could truly be reckoned three days s : and fo (J conceive) he did that hemight not give the leaft advantage todeath ; or that death might have him no longer prifoner then needs mutt. And upon this confideration too, he Paw no corruption. For three dayes (as Naturalifts obferve) a body may continue without corruption ; efpecially as it was with Chrift who dy- ing and being buried the eveningof the fixth day,lay the feventh in the grave, & role early in the morningof the firft day of the weeke. (Martha laid to Chrift when he came to the Sepulcher ofLazarus, Lord, he bath beendeadfeure dayet, by this time he ,flirketh (Job. i- 1..37.) When a body hath been dead foure dayes, we may fay, furely it is corrupted; but in three dayes there is no neceflitie ofcorruption ; So that, God (as it was prophesied in the Pfalme ) didnot fuf, fer his holy One tofee corruption ; no not the leaft éorruption ; this was peculiar to Jefus Chrift, Lnd the Apoftle is very carefull to keepe this dole to Chrift ; for though it were fpoken by David,-yet he fhewes thatDavid did . not fpeake this of himfelfe, as if he expe$ed any fuck privi- ledge (verf: 29.) Men andbrethren, let mefpeake freely toyou, of the 'Patriarch David, who is dead, andburied, and his Sepulchre is, this clad. with to.Davidwho fpake this is dead,and buríed,and lyes in:
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