39 Chap. t 9. AnE'xpofition upon the Book of J OB. Verf 27. fo by what they hopeand are affured he will give and be unto them in ttlat great day. The hope of future good is a prefent comfort, (2 Cor.4. 17.) For this caufe wefaint not; what caufe was that ? becaufe we have this hope, this faith (vest.' 14.) That he which ray(ed up the Lord yefus, fhall rayfe ue up alto 6y efees. & jhall prefent its with you. Expedations from Chrift are as the cot- dialls which keepeus from fainting under our burthens, and revive us in the forrowes ofdeath it felfe. The faith of Chrift in the refurredion of his owne body to life is fpoken of pro- phetically as that which bare up his fpirit in the honre of death (Pfal. i6. 9, to.) Than wilt not leave myfettle in hell, nor frsfler thy HolyOne tofee corruption. Now as that was Chrifts fup. port in his forrows, and fufferings, that he fhould not be left in the grave, that he íhould not fee corruption fo it is the fup- port ofSaints, that though they fee, yet they (hall not for ever lie underthe power of corruption. (Pfal. 17.15. Pfal. 49. 15.) Thou wilt redeeme mefrom the power of the grave. The Apolile makes his Dottrine the CanonofConfolation(i Thefe. 4. 18.) Comfort one another with thefe words : what wordswere thefe ? All thofe words beginning at the i 3 thverfe to the end of the Chapter. Iwouldnot haveyou to be ignorantbrethren, concerning themwhich are vfl:epe (hemeans dead ) that re furrow not even as ethers that have no hope, for ewebelieve that 7efus, dyed ana roje againe, evenfe them alfo which fleepe in refus will God bring with him, &c. The.Author to theHehrewes is abundant in teftifying how the 7ewifh Martyrs comforted themfelves with this thing in the middeft of thvfe various deaths with which they were encompaffed. ( Heb. i t . 35. ) They didnot accept of deliverance, that they night receive a better refierrillion.Why it is called a bet- ter refurredionwas fliewed in opening the i 4th verfe of the i 4th Chapter of this Booke. Thehope of the refurredion was a ground of fuck ftrong confolation to the Saints of former times, that it was called expreffy, The Cenfolation. We may coiled this from the difcourfe which Chrift was pleated to maintaine with (Martha concerning the death of her brother Lazarus,whom Jefus loved. For whereas Chrift telsher( ?oh i I. v.23.)Thy brother (hall rife againe. Martha fayth,I know hejhall rife in the refarreílion at the lafl day; What the Greeke cal- itth The lief rrettirn, the Syriack Paraphrafe calls Thecenjalati- an,
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