216 Chap. 3o. An Expefition upon the Beoke of JO B. Veda3. reception ofall living. tifually every living man bath a houfe by himfelfe ; but here is ahoufe for all living. While the living are in the world, they take up a great deale ofroome, but death putsus neere together, and crouds the men who tooke up the greaten breadth above ground , into a narrow compaffe under ground, the Grave ; That's the houfe for All living. Some extend all living,to all things that live ; Thus the beans of the earth, and fowles ofthe ayre, may be numbred among the living ; but lob is (peaking of men only ; and fo The all living, are all men living; Adamcalled his wives name Eve, becaufe thee was The mother ofall living, (Gen. 3. zo.) As Evewas the mo- ther, fo the grave is the houfe ofall living. Thegrave is tpoken of, as if it were but one houfe ; all that have lived are gone to it, and all the living are going to it ; it is the generall Rendevoua, or meeting-pl ce, ofmankinde ; all who live in this world, when they dye and got out of the world, goe to the grave ; That's their Taft refort. Hence note ; Firft , All that live muff die, andallthat die are boundfor the grave; that's their nextfa?age. Mankind is as under anappointment for death,fo for the grave; we no boner begin to live then webegin todye,and(as' is pro- merit»ui VivenAiprine; verbially faid)ut lisp death in our fil frees* Pfbreath I am Eure pírrm, laitrwm eJt, 6r we did in the firft or neere the firft morfal that ever naas eaten. ne &cinq in When fin came into the world ( and that came byeating) death primo pwlmento carne inwith it; we may juttly take up acomplaint againft, or a marten; drue- lamentation over fin. We may cry out, ofin, fan,Jin, Thouhait rámus. Brent meritorioufly) made all thefuneralls that ever were in the world. We bad never knowne what it meanes to depart out of this life, if we by fin had not firft departed from the living God. What Havocke bath fin made in the world ? What heapes upon heapes bath it laved ? It was once faydof the goodly buildings in Rome, Thefins ofGermany, ( meaning the money got by the Popes fac- tors for fin.pardons granted the Germans) have built theft. And when we fee thofe goodly buildings TheBodyes of men ruin'd and call to the Ground, yea into the ground,wemay fafe- ly
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