498 Io Pcean, or. Gen. 37. 33. , King. z. 6. P(I. ay. 4t Pral. 6. 5. Ifs. 38.18. Apoc. :o. 13. thruft out in our meats, in.our drinks, inour apparel, in our breath, in theCourt, intheCountry,in the City,in.the Field,in he Land,in the Sea,inthe chamber,in the Qhurch,and in the Church-yard, her we meet with the fecondparry tobe exami- ned, to wit the grave. O rrave,xdi,s, 1p the languageof4fhdod itsignified one thing,hut in the language ofCanaan, another. TheHeathen writers underftand by it, Firft, the firft matter out of which all thingsare drawn,and into which they arc Taft ofallrefolved. So Hippocratestaketh the word in hisAph. Secondly,the ruleoftheRegion ofdarknefs,or prince of Hell,foRegod. taketh it, ht4,, Hef. op. &dies. Thirdly, the Rate and conditionof the dead, ordeath it fell, fo Homer taketh it, Il. a ;00,,as 1 nXìc o di wedaeoi. In the Language ofCanaan,it is either taken for the lilaceof torment of thedam- ned ; eifnd in hellhe lift his eyes being in torments, andfetch eslbrabamafaroff, and Iazarusin his bofome. Secondly,.-for theGrave, andthatmoft frequentlyin the Seventy Interpreters, as namely, hidgodown into Hades tomyfen; that is,the Grave : and let not his hoary beadgodown into Hades, that isthegrave, inpedce; and in death there isno remem- brance ofthee, and who will givethee thanks in Hades, that is the Grave : and what mania he that livethandJhallnotfeedeath, andfsallhedeliver hisfoulfrom thehands of Hades? that is the Grave, and Hades'that is the Grave cannotpraife thee, Death cannot celebrate thee; and fo it muft behere taken. For thoughHell in regard of theElea be conquered,yet-it eternally poffeffeth the reprobate menand Devils,nei- ther /hall it be deftroyed at the dayof judgment, or emptied, hutinlarged rather, andreplenifhed with thebodiesof allthe damned,whofe fouls are there already.But Hades that is the Grave,. /hall lofe all her.captives and prifoners, for the,earth and lea /ball call upall their dead. Wehave the parties-to be examined, let us now hearthe Articles upon which theyare tobe examined. Firft Death is toanfwer to this Interrogatory,where is thy fling? thefe words maybe underftood twomanner ofwayes. aSA5 ively. z Paffively. 1. Pallively, where is thy fling? that is the fling ihruft out by Death ; in which fence the fling ofDeath is no other than. the prefent fence ofthe defert ofdeath,and guiltofconfcience, and adreadful expeâation of damnation and hell toenfueupon it : take away this fling from the deathofthebody,thatitisapunit mentforfn,and an earn/ as it were ofeternal death, and it can hurt noman. This fling Chrift bath plucked out of the death of all his Saints, and of a curie, made it a blef- fing ; Ofa torment, an cafe ; ofa punithtnent offin, a remedy againft all fin ; of a short and fearful cut to eternal death, a fair and fafe draw-bridge to eternal life. z. AClively,where.is thyfling? that isthe fling whichcàufed,andbringeth Death: In this fence thefling of deathis fin, non quern morsfaitfed quo marsfal`laefl peccato enimmorimur,non mortepeccamus,as Saint Autinmoltacutely and eloquently ; Sin is laid to be the flingofDeath,as a cup of poifon is laidto be apotionof death,thatis,a potion bringing death, forwe die byfin; wefin not bydeath, fin is not theoff J ring of death,butdeath the off ringoffin, or as the Apoftle termeth it thewages of fin. And it is juft with God topay the finnerthiswages,byrendring death to fin,andpunifhing fin with death : becaufe fin fcvereth the foul fromGod, and not only grieveth and defpightfully entreateth, 'but without repentance, in the end thrufteth the fpirit out ofdoors: And what more agreeableto Divinejuftice, than that the foulwhich wil- lingly fevereth her fellfromGod,fhould be unwillingly feveredfrom the body? and that the should beexpelled ofhisrefidence in the flefh,which expelleth Gods grace,and excludethhis Spirit from a rcfidencein the foul ? Thisfling ofdeathis like the
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