Chap. 30. An expoCtion upon the Book of J o N. \Teri. 24 Iiverance. Thus the Lord fpake (?fal. 81. 13, t 4.) 0 that my people had harked unto mee : and Ifrael had walked in my wars ! I fhouldToone have fubduedtheir cnèmies, and turned my hand agaitoft their Advdrfaries. How footle can God both fob. due enemies & fave his people, whocan doeboth wit the turn- ing ofhis hand.- That Godwill have any thing done, is fufcieae for the doing of it. And if his will be not for the doing of a thing, it cannot be done by any power. He will not ftrerch our his,har d to the Gravo ( faith 7'b ) therefore, when he bringsme thither, I muff lye by it, I mull abide there. Secondly , Fran the fence of the whole verfe already given: Note. Thore is no recovery eut ofthegrave, ou to this world, when once we dye. No hard can fetch us thence but thehand of God,and he will not %et tirerch out his hand a the grave. 'Tis a fundamental! Article ut faith, that God will 1i-retch out his hand to thegrave in t' a day of the refurreftion : he will bring all the dead out of taeir houies in due time ; All men (hall (landup before him, though noue of the wicked (hail be able toRand, in lodgement, But that time is not vet come , and rill it come the fenrence of death is Irreve:flibleupon x;." fí.fh. What though God bath al- vac'', ftrt*tched out his hand to the g ave, for the rayfing of fount perfons from thedead by a miraculous power? yet as thofe few that have efcaped death, make no breach upon the generall truth that all muff dye. So it doth not at all, infringe this gene- rail tuth, that God loth nor ftrerch forth his hand to the grave becaufe tome have been railed and recoveredout of it. 7,;b knew there would be a returning at the reiurrecgion He made a nob'e conf ffionof this faith at the 19tiChapter of this Bootie. And he was as much affured that in cafe he then dyed, Godwould not ftretch out his hand to the grave , to fetch him from thence,either to a natural! life,roeat,drtnk,and nape; or to a civili life, to buy, and fell, and rule as he had `done nonor to fuch a fpirituail life of ferving and praifing him in this world, as he had lived to that day. This was the realon why David did fo earnef#ly deprecate death, (rpfal. 6. 4, 5. ) Returne, OLord, deliver myfootle, (that is, mee from death) 0 /rave mee (from the G g z grave 227
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