Chap. 24. its Exp>jition tapon the Book af JG &. Vert: 19 6r9 Se detk tke grave theft that have jnxed. There is a wonderful) concifenes in the Hebrew, we find there 5 ír14 A no particle of likenes, nor is there any expreffiionoftk%than as mica br?vua appeares by thedifferent letter in our eradiation, yet Ifni there is no t ° ¡uTiia IIltf, YOA doubt but the words carry in them the forceofa fimilicude,there dubium eft g fore we may fafely fupply them, according to or reading ; mainiatntas So doth the grave there that kave finned. The fame word is tiled indifferently in the Originall both for the grave and hell; both fignifications are madeufe of by Inter. prcrers in this place. Fief', the grave or di ach ; Secondly, Heil, which is the fecond death, an everlafling death confrmeth tbofx that havefinned. But why doth he fay, thegrave confametb tbofe that havetin- ned ? Can hemeane any fpeciall fort of men by this, forafmucb as all men have finned and fin dayly ? I anfwer, It is a truth, the grave confumeth,and death reignetla overall, for that all have finned ; Wherefoever fin lath to doe, death lath to doe, the territories ofdeath are as large as the ter- retories of fin; And had it not been for fin, death had never had any dominion in the world, nor can the grave confume any but thofe who have finned. TheBody ofman had never come into the graves mouth, and it had been too hard a morfell for the fo- mackof the grave to digeft, had it not been for fin ; For though the bodyof man in its materials and conftitution was mortal!, that is, was under apcffibility ofdying before he finned, yet if fin h d not brought him under the threat of death , God had never iub"etied him under that decree of dying in purfuance of both which the grave now confumeth ( all) thofe that have finned. Thegrave confumes Godly men becaufe they have finned, & the grave confumes wicked men becaufe they have íìnned ;yet there is agreat difference among thefe finners who dye,and a greater dif- ference among thefe finners when they are dead. And therefore 3 0h fpeakes here deftinâively; for though it be a truth that all whether godly or wicked have finned, and that the grave confumeth all, who have finned, yet 7c6 loth not here intend all Men by Tbefe who have finned, For by them 706 meanes groffe prefumptuon's and imçaenitent finners ; he meanes it not of Kkkk2 thole
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