Chap, zrä An F_xpofition tsyon at &toV J o B. Verf. 32. 829 thered to thegrave, as well as to his Fathers.; which neceffari- ly inferres the gathering of his body to theirs, and of his duff to theirs, all making bat on heap of dull. The grave or tombe are as a floore wherein corne is heaped up untill the great threfhing andwinnowing day comtth,when the bod}es ofmen (hall be ray fed and purged from the chaffe of their na- turall condition ; for then, this corruptible muff pat on ineor raption, and this mortal muff put on i mmortallity, (t Co:. i 5 54.) Secondly, Asthe tombe is called a heap:, becaufe the bo- dyes of men are heaped there together ; fo becaufe a tomb or agrave, thoughbut one body be laid there, fwe':s up l:ke a heape. The body bei:og put into the earth, rifeth by fo mach as the fpace is which the body filech. And hence criticks tell us, that the Latine word for any tombe or grave, notes the ß,r1,,, rwrrxl .n fwelling ofthe earth.But efpeciaily the ftately tombes of Prin4 tmen. ces and Great men,fwel high,andare rayfed upon Arches and k. pillars. Nor have men left in any chi 'g planer marks ofthe fwelling of their minds with pride and vaine glory; then in appointing filch towring. and fwellìng Monuments of their frailty. YeaTome feeme to have had an ambition to immer- tallize the memory ofthemfelves & of theirgreatnefs by their memorials oftheir mortality. They for whom fuc's vsíl and ftupendious heapes have been rayfed, may weh be (did in an -, fwer to this tranflation of fob'tText, 7owatch in the heap. Lally, We (as others alfo) render plainely, He (hall re- main in the tombe ; His dead bodybeingbrought to the grave co tend ma remaines in the tomb, and moves nomore, till God calleth it nebrr fß-terg forth, andby his Almighty power re(toreth it to life agake. t'a o. The grave ie a pri%n, aad death is afare k eeper. Death will hold itsown, till the Lord oflifegives command to let goe.Living men are of fo little permanency, that they can fcarce be fad to remaine any where. Onely the dead know nothing of removing. Againe, When lob faith, He(hall remain in the tomb,. he (peaks this (inpurfuance of what he had Paid before) as a priviledge which a wicked man may have ; he (hall not onely he brought to the grave with honour, but fhàll remain there in fafety. Haftse
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