38 Chap. 26. ,ein Expotitionupon theTook Of Jf? B. Verf.i}. Oa (ver. 28.) Marvel not at thie,for the hoar is coming(he loth not fay as before, and nom le) in the which ail that are is the grave, (dead bodies) (baldheare hie voice, and come forth, they that have done good, unto the refurrt(lion ,f life, and :key that have done evil unto the refrarrctien ffdamnation. As if Chritl had laid, That p:wetfull voice (and a voice leffe powerful) then that will not doe it) which is able to ralle dead bodyes, bodyes moul'ered in- to duit, from the earth, acid cau,e them to live again, (that voice I fay) is able to ralle a dead foule from a date of fin to ne.onoWc of life. TheApottie faith as much, while he calleh the preaching acheWord a favour of life unto life in them that /ire fatted (2 Cor. 2 z6. ) They finel and tact life, even eternal life at the receiving of the Wcnd. And as it is the meaner ofcoeaveighing life to chofe who are dead to finne,fo ofrecovering and renewing life to thole who are dead in forrow. Worldly forrow or thejorrow of the world w r.l eth death (2 Cor. 7. , o.) and ex..reame fpi itu. al farrow, or the extrearne furrow of the foul about fpïriruals, puts us into a kind of death,TFus Hurrah fpake of himfelt in that cafe (Pf. 88. 4, 5 ) I am counted with them that go d;,wn into tot pit ; Iam ae a. man that bath no fizrength,free among the dead lekt thtfl .int that lye in the grave, wh.-m thou remembrefl no tow:penal' they are cut from thy hand. As Heenan was counted among the dead by others,fohe was like a dead roan in his own account too, as he fpeakes at the r 5,h verle ; I am 4f.ittd end ready to dye, frommy youth up,phile Ifr f r thy terrors 1am d:flra17ed He was not ready to dye of bodily difeafes, but of foule terrors, nor could any thing revive him, or fetchhim back from that death, but th;. favour of God fhning to him in the word of promife ; how glorious is the word by the workings of the Spirit, which caufeth the fpirit to come forth, and miketh them who were fete among the dead,become free among the living. This effet4 & fruit of the word lob expeeed from his friends before, and now from Bi1ddd, but all in veine; As their, fo his difcourfe with lob was fru,tleffe and ineffeduall. Much bath been fpoken,but I have got nothing.. I have got no fpirit, no refrefhing, my heart is no whit cheered, nor my foulecomforted, both you and the reft of your brethren, have proved milerable comforters to me. To whom haft thon utttred words ? I am no better then ifyou had laid nothing. And whale fpirit tactfrom thee, not mire, for as yet, (notwith- ¡landtng
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