Chap. 30 .Bxpofttion upon the Book of J cì a. Vert, 23. rower, but as 'cis the beginning of his endleffe Joyes. Laftly, When he faith, I know that thou wilt bring mee to death ; Obferve; Death ie at the difpofe andCommand of god. Hee Bothnot fay, my difeafe or fìcknefle will bring mee to death, but, shoo wilt bring mee to death ; or thou wilt bring mee to death by, the hand of there fickneffes. it is good for us to fee our death as well as our life in the hand of God : death cannot comeof it felfe till 'tis Pent, or till it is Commanded and Corn- miffion'd ; unleffe God bring us to the grave ai! the fìc l:neffes in the world cannot doe it ; unleffe God fay, dye, ail the powers in the,world cannot kill. 1 know that thou wilt brir rr.oe to death; 215 and to the boute appointedfor all living. Thewords are a defcriprion of the grave ; fob calls,it a lossufe, and a houleappointed, and a houle appointed fier all living. And DornH, conven- though he faith nor by whom this boute was appointed for fo tiwtnrconve rt; great an entertainment, yet doubtlefe he meases God him felfe vtl Domuf(fa was the appointer; he built .this lightföme world as a houle for ruri.i.e. fanas man to live in,and he bath appointed the darke Grave as a houle & FIT3+sto for all living ; that is,he bath appointed the living when t ry c'rvivonif men reft and take up their lodging in that houfe. Thus as r build houles for themfélves to live in ; fo God hath appe;i rated a houle for all living men whin they dye. In the Leviticail Law, we read of the T.obernacle if the Conre ¿arion, or the Tnbrnacleof atpointment, becaufe thither all the people of Ifraelwere appointed ro core,and there to congregate upon feverall eccafions of folemne wot fhip. l-lere we have the honte ofappointment, or the boufeof the C.ngregarion, that is, the houle where all men muftcongregate, and meet together. And . when 74 calls it a 'loofa appointed, it hall adouble reference; Pirft, to place ; Secondly, to time. The grave is the place ape pointed ofGod where the livingTall be layd ; and it is appoin- ted of God when they (hall be layd there. It,is a houle ap- pointed for all living. That's a great houle lurewhich hath roome enough for the recep
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