75z Chap. 26. An expolitionupon the 7lockofJ O B. Verf.6, tible, that is, filthinefte and corruption fhall be upon them :The bedyes of Saints onely (hall be railed fo incorruptible, that no. thing ofcorruption fhall be feene upon them, or felt by them, but the bodyes ofthe wicked fhall ever feene corruprion,and bear the marker of it,wichout total corrupting,or perifhing,as corrup- ting and perifhing are taken for not being. The wicked wouid.be glad that they might perith fo, but they (hall not, hel will be a pit ofcorruption to chem,for whatfoever is painfuil and grievous to the Beth, fhaII dwell in their bodyes, and therefore it is called the pit ofcorruption; and it may alfo be calleda pit ofcorruption in amoral! fence,; becaufe all their fins and lufts fhail rengaine upon them for ever ; he1 firecannot purge the foule from fin, m r free any man from the power of that old man, who ,( as the Apoftle fpeaks ph. 4. zz) Is corrupt according to she deceitful!lufs. Nothing but the bloodofChrift can purge the foul from corrup- tion ; Hell iefor the punifkment ofcorruption, but n,t at al for the purging of.it, and therefore it is well calied,the pit rfcorrupti. . qn, Sixthly, It is called Brea lllefclah, that is, the land offorget= fulnef*; as the grave, fo hell is called the land f f.rg rful-effe, where thewicked fha',l be remembred no more ; God will re- member them no tmorr,to do them any good,aad ;p'e are to got- ten, howmuch focver they are remembred, whoare not remrm- bred for good, And as Godwill_not remember thole ir, hell for good, fo they (hall forget all the good they have had uptm the earth ; or the remembrance which they have of ìr, {hall onely be toencreafe theirforrowunder prefent evills. ..4brablm in the Parable (Lake r 6.25.) laid to the rich man in hell, Son remem- l:er that thou in thy life time receivedf thy goad tkis;gs ; and that remembrance of the good things which he once en'oyed was but an addition to all the evills and miferies which he then endured, It is better never to bave load anygood thing, thin only to remember that we have bad it. How naiferable is their condition,whr, (hall neither be remembred for good, nor remember any good, but to make them more miferable ! Seventbly, Hell is called Frets chefcoc that is, or landof dark- wife, a region ofdarkneffe; there is nothing but darkneffe in hell; The wickedgoe to thegsneratian tf their fathers, where they' (hall never /r'a light (Pial. 49. 19.) They loved darkneffe here rather then
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