Chap. z6. An Èxpofttion upon the Book cf JOB. Veri.6 75I Fire, Sheol or the grave,becaufe we (yeas it were buried there in a fecond death. Secondly, e4baddon or deftrutlion, kcaufe all are there in a ' perifbing flare, or as given up into the hand ofdeftru:`tion. Thirdly, Hell is called T,fa/prayer/1 or the fhadow of death, and by the fhadow ofdeatb,is not meant a frnal appearance ofdeath :as the Word fhadow is tiled (lam. i. 17,) where the Apolile tilts the glory of the Lord in his unchangeablenes,that he i, the Father of lights, from whom everygood gift, andeveryperfe1gift cometb down, with whom is no v.ariableneffe, neither fhadow rfturning ; that isi he is not fubet1 to any turning at all;but hel is called the fliadow ofdeath,as fhadow is put for (strength and power,and fo to be under the fltadowof Godor man, is to be under their pro- be&ion. Thus bell is the ßradowofdeath, that is, the frrength and power of it ; Beath never triumphs fo muck in its ftrength, as it dab in hell. Fourthly, Hel is called Frets whit's, which 6gnifies,firft,the earthunder, or the lowed and molt inferiour earth, whence in Scripture hell is called the bottrmleffe pit, and the way to it is de- fcribed by defcending and going down : as heaven is defcribed by afcending and flight; heaven is high, and the highcft afcending is our afcending to heaven; fo hell is low,and the loxell defaending is defcending into hel. Secondly, it imports, feare, tiexation,and trembling ; hell is a landof trembling, it is a land of fear;it is laid ofCaine that when he went out of the prefence ofGod,after he had murthered hisbrother hewent into the land of 2Kod, that into a land oftrembling, which force expound not of any fpe- cial place that he went to, but that every place where he went wa- to him a land oftrembling, he having such fearear.d dread upon his cotafeience after hebad embrewed his hands in his bro- thers blood. Hell is imdeeed the land ofNod, a Trembling land" They who have not rejoyced with trembling in this world, ¡ball'_ forrow with trembling for ever in the world tocome. Fifthly,Hell is called Berfhiacbathith, that is,thepit ofcorrrapti- on,not that the bodyes of the damned-lb-ill corrupt in hell(as they doe in the grave, for though we cannot fay that the bodies ofthe wicked (hall be raifed incorruptible, as the bodyes oftbe Saints, !hall, yet they thall-be railed immortall, and in that fence incor- ruptible, that is, they (ball never dye) but they Thal be corrup- tible,,
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