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A
SPEECH
OVER
A
GRAVE.
513
not
wholly
suitable to
our christian
hope, to
stand
byand
see
the grave with
,open
mouth take
in,
and
swallow
down any
part of
a
precious saint,
and not
bring some
testimony against the devourer. And yet
that our
wit-
ness may
be in
righteousness,
we
must
first
own,
ac-
knowledge,
and accept of
that
good and serviceableness
that
is
in it.
"
For
through the death
and
resurrection
of
our
dear
Redeemer, death
and the grave are become sweetened
to
,us,
and
sanctified for
us
:
So
that
as
death
is
but
a sleep,
.
the
grave
through
his lying
down
in
it and rising
again,
is
become
as
a bed
of
repose
to
them
that
are
in
hid],
and
a
safe
and quiet
hiding-place for
his
saints
till
the
resur-
rection.
And in
this
respect
we
do for ourselves,
and for
this
our
dearly beloved
in
the Lord,
accept
of
thee,
O
grave,
and readily deliver
up her
body
to
thee
;
it
is a
body
that
lath
been
weakened and wearied
with
long
affliction
and
anguish,
we
freely
give
it
into thee
;
receive
it,
and
let
it
have
in
thee
a
quiet
restfrom
all its
labours
;
for thus
we
read it
written of
thee,
"
There the
wicked cease
from
troubling, and
there. the weary
be
at
rest
;"
Job.
iii.
17.
"
Besides,
it
is,
O grave,
a
body
that
bath
been
s<eetly
embalmed
by
a
virtuous,
pious,
peaceable conversation,
by
several inward openings and
out
pourings
of
the
hi-
nt
of
life, by
much patience and
meekness
in
strong trials
and
afflictions
:
Receive
it,
and
let it
.enjoy in
thee, what
was once
deeply impressed on
her
own
heart, and
in
a due
season
written out
with
her own hand,
a
sabbath
in
the
grave
:
For
thus
also
we find
it recorded
of our
Lord
and
her
Lord,
that
he
enjoyed
the rest
of
his
last sabbath
in
the
grave.
"
But
we
know
thee,
O
grave, to be also
a devourer,
and yet
we
can
freely deliver up the body
into
thee.
There
was
in
it
a contracted corruptibility, dishonour
and
weakness
;
take
them
as
thy
proper
prey,'
they be-
long
to thee,
and
we
would
not withhold
them from
thee
:
Freely
swallow
them
up
for
ever,
that
they
may
appear
no more.
"
Yet
know, O grave,
there
is
in
the
body,
considered
as
once united
to
such a
soul,
a divine
relation
to
the.
.
Lord of life;
and
this
thou must not,
thou
canst
not
dis-
solve or destroy. But
know,
,and
even before
thee,
and.