Chap, 3o, 4n Expofttiotí upon the. Book of J d s. Vert:, 24. 23 t before we are old there is no remedy left for us but death, or rur, quo,: gnaw d!-arh rrih be our certaine remedy for then they muff leave us. tur';vrr fritura And then the meaning f that latter elaufe of the vede o'a a'a;ni g + r, f dwrn ccnre- Thesrgh they cry in his dffirutlion, may be thus undertiood u .u, : gamer, Though ether men,or I my felfe cry and complaireunder his,derin,anu,eodc- h nd. chilehe is bringing death uponmee or them. , et being vet den rt /epic once dead, nor theynor I (hall cómplaine anymore. Some read .'u Q? omnis renur expers the words with an interrogation, He Trill nor,floeeeh out hoe hand a,np sine nn QI- to thegrave ; is thereany cry in hie drfirrsái`i,.n ? 7hat is, doe riecr get Biz cry any more when once God hath lent them to the gr,`ve ? °pprei There's no crying there; therefore no fence of any it ff nng éhJ.1nv`Hfven there; ifharme or paine were felt in death or in edirr cfir}n, Pro. 24. aa. men would cry there ;-hut is there any cry in his deft. ilei=.orr ?mr when he hath deftroyed men ? Surely there is none; Who tver hearda dead man cry ? This aigues,thar God firctchn th r o t forth his hand to the grave,nr that whenmen dye they are patt all for- row. This, I conceave, tobe the plaine (copeof the words. Herce obferve ; Death puns an end to all our.treubles; Clod wir7 not fireteb forth bus hand to the grave. When we are once paft this life, we are paft the line of of fliEtio i s when we are our of this world, we are got beyond the confines of forrow, God xill not ftrecch forth his hard to the grave ; there we are in !antt nary, or u r covert. As there is no countell, nor work. nor device, in the grave, (Ecel. 9 t o. ) fo no trouble, rot ttflicton there. That which isprophefied as a fruit of the wonderful! réftoring of the Church in the latter dayes, (Rev. 7. 17. ('p 21. 4.) CJ'd /ball wipeaway all teares from their eyes, and there fha/i be no more death, neither (prroàr, nor cryiyrg , reithrr[hall there be any mere p,zire , for the f rmer things are p:. ffed away Now, I fav, as it (half be in that day of the Churchesbleffed reftitution, all reares (hail be wiped away from the eves ofall the Godly ; fo when any one goeth to the grave,ali tea-es are thenwiped away from his eyes ; there is no more paine no more iorrow,no more crying chere;as 7rb (hewed at large in the 3d Chapter, v. 17, 18, e 9. There the n'cnry be at ref, thefervant isfree from his Maier. As death is the cure of urea! all du cafes, fo ofall oar forrows ; deal; is our redemptionfrom rn;n redtmpy af_ do eft,
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