228 Chap. 3o. An Expofition upon the Books of J o B. Verf.z+ grave he meanr)for thy mercies fake;for in death there is no remerrt- brance of thee : in-the gravewho fhallgive thee thanks?Andagaine, ( Pfrl. 3o. 9. ) What prefix is there in my bleed, liken Igoe downe t. thepit ? Shall the duff pralle thee? shall it declare thy truth ! And as there Scriptures Phew [hitthe dead doe not praile God ; fo thole bemoaning queftions ofditlrefîed, almoft didtra&ed He. man; Chew that Godwill not by any prevent ftretching out ofhis hand miraculoufly rayfe the dead to pralle him, ( T a1.8fi. to.) Wilt then fbery wonders is the dead? Shall the dead arife and praife thee ? Selah. His meaning is, they that are Once dead, (hall not . be railed topralle God againe here, but (hail b:; detained prim°- tiers Und=.r the po er ofdeath till the generall re'urre Lion. So that, As the dead cannot pralleGod, fu the, fha!l not be raifed to praife Godiiri a mortali Rate. The living, the living, they(hall praife hires., as Hezetiah fayd inhis fangofpraife, having efcapcd t'he grave, (Ifa. 38. i8.) For thegrave; (that is, they whoare gone to the grave) cannot praife thee ; death ( that is, the dead ) cannot celebrate thee. Thy thatgee deune to the pit cannot hope for thy truth ; that is, for the fulfilling of any of chore prorrifes which thou haft made to thy peop!e cuncerni og the U.:fli ngi of this lire , whether perfonal or publike ; And hence he intetis, The living, the living, be (ball praife thee. ( lat is it is -hisduty to praife dice, andhe bath yet an opportnn;ry c re -ire thee) at Ile trie day, (and purpofe to transmit it p:,ti rity; that thy praises may !ail in this world, as long asche ßr17 l;tte ) The fa- ther to the childrenhall we knowne thy truth. As if lie had,fa d, Had I dyed of this fickneffe, and gone ro my grave, I wad not performed this duty of praifingther, as I doe thí.* day, nor could 1 have left the m,_moriall of this mercy for thy praife to`.After. ages.. He will netfiretch out he hand to thegrave, though they cry in his defrutlion, Thirdly , Hence note ; 'There's ufually agreat cry when god either takes, or is about to take men out of the m;rldby death. There is a cryof fupplication when he is about to doe it, and a cry cf lamentation when it is done efpecially when it is done inan unufuall manner. As in that laft plague upon Egypt, the flaying
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