To/fefsionfor burial. 239 ones, the Lord .akes fach a firm poffeffionofthis Land, that when four hundred years were come about, there was furls a quick ilfue, thatit droveall the Inhabi- cants out of the Land: for out of Sarah that was now dead, and Abraham,and the Patriarchs thatwere interred in his Cave,out oftheir dead loynes the Lord railed a living iffueoffix hundred thoufand footmen,befides women and children that came under the condu f of Iofhua, and difcomfited the Captains of the Landand took poffeffion. Thegracious God out ofdead and poor things in the world raifeth firength and Vlajefty; that chofe that they trampledupon, and accounted asdeadmen, the Lord made out of them fuch a living flock, thatall thepoor of Canaan was not able to hold up, and make head againft them, ( they were iuch a powerful Army) bu hid theenfelves in Caves, and became as dead men, to give place to, thele dead en. Here is the wonderful great glory-of the Alrnighry,out ofineer nothing,to work all things, and as he made all things that are Peen out ofnothing (for byfaith roe learn that things that are fern, were made of things that are not Peen) fo he Dill continueth to lay his foundation in bafenefs and humility, in a ridiculousmannerto rib and blood, yet out ofthat he bringeth large and infinite majefly and glory, uòh asno man can afpire inhis thoughts to think fufficiently of'. Giveme aburying place to burymy dead. Behold, he calleth herSarah, his dead, he callcth hernot Wife, though it isPaid after in the Text, that Abraham buried Sarah búwife ; yet that is in ref eft ofthe timeofher life, when they lived together, and inrefpeftoftheformer fociery,and converfe they had : but now he fpeaksto the point, the is no more his Wife, but his dead. It is tranflated by all in the 21CeuterGender, not my dead (he, but my' dead, limply in the Neutergender, asa thing whichnow hadnot fomuch relation. So it is true, when men andwomen are levered by Death, they areno more man andwife, but one anothersdead. Foras theApoDlefaith, Doyou not know that as long .ee a man liver h,' wife isfnbjell to bim, andfhe muff not converfe withano' Cher? So likew ife formen again : but whenGoddiffolveth the contraaby Death, then as the is free for another man,fo Die is no more hisWife ; fo long as thewas aliveupon the ground fhe washisWife,but now when th a is togo into the ground, he ealleth her his dead, but not his Wife. The fubftance and fum is this ; That Matrimony is Gods bleffing for prefent life of mankind, for the propagating ofthe Species, to continue the feed ofman to the worlds end, that there maybe Hill a generation to praile God their Creator ; and fo being a temporal thing ordained for the office ofthis life, it ceafeth when Death cometh : there is nothing but Death, and that which Chrift fpeaks of in the Gofpel, can snake a feparation : whets death cometh all relationsceafe, anda wifeis no wife, and a husband is no husband. Behold out of this,he infinite loveof God in Chrifhthat bath made all things, all unions,, and contras, bath made all to be void but his own : for our Lord Jefus in life and death is our Husband, our Lord, ourMaDer, our Father, as well in the one-as in the other : whereas by the intercourfe of death all things are diffolved, two of the beD friends that are may part upon difcontent, and body and foul muli partat Death,and Husband andwife ( the Symbol ofCh rift and his Church) muli part onefrout another : yet whenall focieties and contra&s part, Chrif loth not part fromus, but he is in the Grave, as well as in thehighe& heavens, our Husband, andLord, and Spoufe,and we are his ChurchDill, wekeep thefame relation,andas ltrongbonds indeath, as in life. My Dead. Yet notwithftandingthough the wasnot AbrahamsWife,yet thewas Abrahams dead. This múf°t teach a man after he is freed by Death to the combination and contra&,
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