2i8 Chap.3o. As Expofitivn up-4 the Book of Jos. Verf=yi didnot fo redeemus that we fhould live for ever, and not fee corruption ; It was the priviledge of Jefus Chrift the redeemer not to fee corruption; but Jefus Chrift, bath not redeemed us . that we (hall not foe corruption; hehash redeemed us that we thall live forever in heaven, but he hath not redeemed us from corruption, that we fhould live for ever on ea.r th, or nor fee cor- - rupeion in the grave ; For (as it is fayd- rt theeiora verfe of the p alme) We fee that wife men eye, liketri,/e the focle, anortke orai- tï/h perfcn periJ1i nd leave their wealth to others;As ifhe had fail, Neither the one nor the other fort of men, could make this ufe or improvement of their wealth, to deliver think]yes' from go- ing to he grave for ifthey could, they would have layd all our upon that pinch fe ; but they could not doe .it, therefore they leave their wealth to crh.ri. Doubrlefs they would have given out all they were wortb,to redeem themfelvesfrom the grave; what would not richmen give todoe this, titlewould leave nothing to children or Executors , could they but bribe off death with all their riches. There i= no title can be given to man which lets him further fromdeáth,thrn to cal himGod;And this high title God himfelfe (not a flatterer ) bath cloathed force men with, ('p/el. 82.6, 7.) Ifayelye aregods,(but with the fame breath he addes) peefhall dye like, men. And as riches and honour cannot )(heiter from death fo nei- ther can knowledge nor wifdome ; Solomon whowas the richea treafury ofwitdorne (ofä meere man) that ever lived, didnot only dye himfelfe, brat fayd (eccl.a. i ii.) Howdyetle the wife man andthefoie ? Yea, which is more then that (unieffeSolomon as elfewhere, fo there by his wife man meant a holy man) weemay adde, How dyerseke godly man ál the wicked ? How eiyeth the jaefI naan as the anjuff ? For though there be the utmofi unlikeneffe between the godlyand the wicked, both in the manner of their life, And in theconfequents of their death, yet in this they are both alike, they both dye; Holineffe it Idle, as man is conftitu- ted in this world, cannot limiter from death. As the reigneoffin ( which was toucht before) bringsin the reigneofdeath; fo where foever fin bath but a being, deathwill have a footing. Andthereforethough juft or godly men live not in fin, yeaare dead to fin, yet becaufe fin lives in them, they alto mull dye. Yea henceit came to paffe that Jefus Chrift dyed,even becaufe,
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