Elk WIIIMOSINtltalt Chap. 24. +4'aß Expofrtian upon the Boot of j O:B. Ver: Ig. 623 beauty of their outward holy aáings (hall not conform in the Grave; For blefedare the dead that dye in the Lord, for from henceforth,faith the Spirit, they rtftfrom their labours, and their works foil;w them ( Rev. 14. 13. ) it is,their good workes fol- low them (not to death but into 1`fe) and will he both beauty and bleffednefe to them from the Lord for ever. Whereas curled are the dead that eye in their fins, for from henceforth, they (hall be denyed refs for ever;and none of their worker, wherein they took pleafure in this worid,{biall follbw them into the next to give them . any pleafure.All their beauty and outward bleffednefs ends in the grave. 1fin this Weonly we have hope in Chrrf, ( faith the Apo- ftle,oa beleevers, I Cor. s 5, r 9. ) we are of all men m ft miferable then howmiferable are they, who have nohope beyond cuis life,, or if they have, both thar,and their prefent beautyconfume toge- ther in the grave. Thus it is plaine, thatthough godly mendye;, yet death hash not fuch a hand over them, as over the wicked.. And as wicked men are more under the hand of death then the Godly when theydye, fo theyare continually more lyableunto, death. Sin, which unfits men to dyecomfortably, fits them ( as . it were) to dye naturally: The snore firifull any man is, the foo ener maydeath furprife him.1folineffe bath not only a promifeof eternall life hereafter, but ofa long life here (pfal. 34. 12, 13 ), And fin is nor only under a threat ofeternail death hereafter, but ofa fpeedy death here. (P%aí.55.23.) But rhos 0 Lord R&alt bring them ( that is, wicked men) down into the pit ofdefiruklion, (But when? it may be long firit, the Next words make anfwer ) Bloody and deceitfull men fallnet live out halftheir dayes ; That is, not halfshe dyes which as othersdoe fo they naturally might harass; either the JuiceofGod or ofman fhall cut fuch men off in the midit of their dayes. The grave gapes for thole who have thus finned. So then,though there are many fpirituall reafons re ferring tea eternal! life, which may move the fons ofmen to take ßr0c ' fesuPebua ei ur malitPa heed offin,yet there is a ftrong. motive from the concernrtientsofifernus.aur in= this prefent temporal life,and that not only as to the comfortsferi,Yam fepul- thr ofit, but all() asto thevery continuance of it. They haft n therit.km tapie eri. infiti fives to thegrave who make haft to fin, and foat once endanger ófbe0?tap hem the hopes ofthe next life, and the enjoyment of this. qui peccavzrune Laffly, Same, becaufe the Grave (in ageneral fence) cou-;, e I imprelaos. fumes the godly as well as the firmer (in the fence laft exprcffed).Dtn(e doe,
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