3 2 Chap. 3 o. An Expofition upon the Bootie of J o E. Verf.24. afi5lion, and the re(urreElion will be our redemptionfrom death; and therefore the refJrre6lion is called the day rfredemption, that is, ofour bodies ; then we (hall be recovered from the captivity ofthe grave, as now the grave is a redemption fromo r captivi- ty under affli lion and forrow. But it may be obje&ed, Is there an end of forrow when we goe to the grave ? Ianfwer; There is in reference to the godly , or true belie- vers ; There's an end alto of bodyly fufferings to the wickcd, theyknow no more chofe kind of lufferings which they felt in the world,when once they are houfed in the grave; yet then they are under the workof fufferings;for though God will not ttretch forth his hand to the grave, to afiii& their bodies, yet he will ketch forth his hand to hell to aflli& their foules. Chrift gi- veth that warning ( Luke 12. 5, ) Feare not them, who when they have killed the body, have no more that they can doe, ( men have done their work when they have° kiil'd the body : but ( faith Chrift ) Imillferewarne you , whomyen ¡hall Feare ; f eare him_. whichafter he path killed the body, loath power to c..f$you into hell; yea, Ifay, feare hire. It is a miferable comfort that many carnal! men take to themfelves in their prefent forrows and fufferings; O ( fay they) we (ball dye fhortly, and then we (hailbe out of our paines ; Alas 1 when wicked men dye , though they get out ofone kinde ofpaine, and mifery, yet they fall into thole mile- ries which are a thoufand times worfe ; Thy goe out of the fcorchingSunne into the confirming fire ; all the mifery they in- dure on this tide the grave, is but as the excefíive heate of the Sun, to the hotteft fire, in compariton ofwhat they (hall indure. They whodye in their fins, (hall find death the beginning of in- finitely worfe forrows , then thole to which it puts an end: Though therebe no reares, no forrows in the grave, to which the body goes, yet in bel ( which is the grave ofwicked mens foules as foene as they dye, and will be the everlafting grave both of their foules and bodyes,when they rile againe, inhel I fay) there is weeping and way'ing, and gnafning of teeth for evermore; Therefore let no unbe!ievcr or pt' plane petlon pleafe himfelfe with this, that his ft fferiegs wii b_ over in the grave ; for the wrathof God will burnt gawk .'uch for ever ; and that which is fayd by the Prophet will be fulfilled upon them, yet the anger 0
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