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SAFETY IN THE GRAVE,
[nISC,
xr.
day upon the earth
:
and though after
my skin worms
destroy
this
body,
yet
in
my flesh
shall
I
see
God
;
whom
I
shall
see
for
myself,
and
my
eyes
shall behold, and
not
another
;
though
my
reins
be
consumed within
me."
But
in
many
parts
of
this book the good
man lets
us know,
that
he
had
no
manner of hope of
any
restoration
to
health
and peace
in
this
life
;
"
Job
vii,
G,
7,
8.
"
My
days
are
spent without
hope
:my
eye shall no
more
see
good
:
the
eye
of
him
that
bath
seen me shall see me
no more
:
thy
eyes
are upon
me,
and
I
am
not." Verse
"
Now shall
I
sleep
in
the dust, and thou
shalt
seek
me
in
the morning,
but I
shall
not
be."
Job
xvii.
15.
Where
is
now
my
hope
?
As
for my hope, who shall
see
'
it
?"
lie
and
his
hope seemed
"
to go
down to
the bars
of
the
pit together,
and
to
rest
in the
dust:
And
if
Job
had
no
hope
of
a
restoration
in
this world,
then
his
hopes
must
point
to
the
resurrection of
the
dead.
Reason
IV.
If
we
turn
these verses here,
as well
as
that
noble passage
in
Job
xix.
to the more
evangelical'
sense
of
a resurrection,
the
truths
which
are contained
in
the
one
and the other, are
all
supported
by
the language
of
the
New
Testament
:
and
the
express
words of both
these texts
are
much more
naturally
and
easily
applied
to
the evangelical
sense
without
any
strain and
difficulty.
The
expressions
of
Job
in
chapter
the
xix.
I
knew
that
my
Redeemer
liveth," have been
rescued
by
many
wise
interpreters
from
that
poor
and
low
sense
which has
been
forced upon them,
by
those who
will
not
allow
Job
to
have any prospect beyond
this
life
:
and
it has been made
to appear
to be
a bright
glimpse
of
divine light and joy,
a
ray or
vision
of
the sun
of
righteousness breaking
in
be-
tween the
dark
clouds
of
his
pressing sorrow
:
And
that
the words
of
my
text
demand the same
sort
of interpre-
tation,
will
appear further
by
these
short
remarks, and
this
paraphrase
upon
them.
Job
had been speaking, verses
7-10,
&c.
That
i`
there
is
hope
of
a tree
when
it
is
cut
down,
that
it
will
sprout
again
visibly,
and bring forth boughs; but
when man
gives
up
the
ghost, he
is
no
more
visi-
ble
upon
earth
:
Where
is
he
?"
Job
does
not
deny
his
future
existence,
but
only intimates
that
he does
not
appear
in
the place
Where
he was
;;
and
in the follow-
ing
verses he does
not
say,
a
dying
man
shall never
rise,
or
shall never
be
awakened
out
of
hips
sleep,
but
asserts