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Chap. z6. An Expofition up »the Sokol JO B. Vert to. faith, he loath compafjed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. TheHebrew ftri&ly tranflated snakes this refo;ution of the doubt more cleareand doubrIeffe;for that doch not fay abfolutely that day and night (light or darkn I )¡l a4 coma to an end; but that there (dal be an endof light with darkneffe ; that is,óf the intercourfe or change between day and night, be- tween light and darknefs;or until the con [ummati -n of light with Ad confrmma därkntf e, that is, until light and darkneffe have confummatedor :1.",/,- ,oK cans fulfilled their courfe one with another. teneb,is. Jun: Hence obferve. Fir$, Beyond this world there are no changes of timesor/eafont, In the world to come all is day & light to the Godly,co thofe who dye in the Lord, and all is night and darkneffe to thewick- ed, to chofe who dye out of the Lord. Heaven and hell, a bate ofeternsl Bleffedneffe or wretchedneffe, have no charges in them,nor any thing that is Heterogenal or ofanother kind.Hea- ven which hath light and joy in it, bath no darkneffe,no forrow at all in it; Hell which bath darkneffe and forrow in it, bath no light nor joy at all in it; The mixtures and changes of light and darkneffe of joy and forrow, of paine and pleafure, are made hereon earth.The wine of the wrath of God, and the wine of tie love and confolations ofGod (hall be powred out without any the leafs contrary tineture or mixture in the life which is to come.Light withdarkneffe (hall no more be heard of, Theywho goe into light (hall never fee darkneffe, and they who goe into darkneffe (hall never fee light. We are now (as yob (peaks in the 14. Chapter of this booke, v. t 4.) Waiting all the days ofour appointed time until our change come, and when that change is once fully corne,we (hall goe beyondall changes;Day with night will then be at an end. Secondly, Observe. What God doth he can alwayes doe. As he bath hitherto conapaffed the waters with bounds, fohe can compaffe them with bounds until! the day and night come to an end. Men candoe that to day, which they are fo far from being able to doe unrill the end of dayes,that,poffibly they can- not do it the next day.The hand of man is continually fhortning Gggggz in 779

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