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SAFETY
IN THE
GRAVE,
[DIsc.
xi.
pounced
by
our
Lord
Jesus
;;
" surely
.I
come
quickly,"
he
must
immediately
join
the universal echo
of
the saints
with
unspeakable
delight,
Even
so come)
O Lord
Jesus;"
lien.
xxii.20.
DISCOURSE
XI.
SAFETY IN
THE
GRAVE;
AND JOY AT
THE
RESURRECTION.
a.on
kivi
13,
14,
15.
O
that thou
wöuldst
hide
mé
in
the
grave,
that
thoti
wouldst keep
me
secret
until
thy
wiràth
be past,
that
thou wouldst appoint
me a set
time
and re-
member
me
!
If.
a
man die shall he
live
again?
All
the days of
my ap-
pointed time
will
I
wait
till
my
change
corne.
Thou shalt
call
and I
will
answer
thee
:
thou wilt have
a
desire
to
the
work of
thy
hands.
BEFORE
we
attempt
to make
any
improvement
of
these
words
of
Job
for our
present
edification,
it
is
ne-
cessary
that
we
search
out
the
true
meaning
of
them.
There
are
two
general
senses
of these three
verses which
are
given
by
some
of
the most considerable
interpreters
of
scripture, and
they
are exceeding different
from
each
other.
The
first
is
this,
"
Some
suppose
Job
under
the
ex-
tremity
of
his
anguish
to long
after death here,
as
he does
in some.other parts
of
this book, and
to
desire
that
God
would
cut
him
off from the
land of
the
living,
and
hide
him
in the grave, or,
at
least,
take
him away from
the
present
stage
of
action,
and conceal
hind:
in
some re-
tired and
solitary
place,
dark
as
the grave
is,
till all the
days
which might
be
designed for
his
pain and sorrow
were
finished
:
And
that God
would
appoint
him a time
for
his
restoration
to
health and happiness
again in this
world,
and raise
him to
the
possession
of
it;
by
calling
him
out of that dark
and
solitary place of
retreat;
and
then
Job
would answer
him,
and
appear
with
pleasure
at
such
a call
of providence."
Others
give
this sense
of
the words,
" that
though the
pressing
and
overwhelming sorrows
of
this
.good man
constrained
him to
long for death,
_and:
he
entreated of
God
that
he
might
be
sent
to the;grave
as
abiding
place,
and thus
be
delivered
from
his
present
calamities, yet
he
had
some divine glimpse
of
a
resurrection or
living again,