IV. As a state of SILENCE. 1 Sam.ii.9. He will keep the feet of his Saints, and the wicked shall be filent in Darkness. Pf.xxxi.17. let the Wicked be ashamed, and let them be filent in the Grave. xciv.17. Unless the Lord had been my help, my Soul had almost dwelt in Silence. cxv. 17. in Sect. II. Jer. xlviii. 2. — come, and let us cut it off from being a Nation; alfo thou Shalt be cut down (in the Margin, be brought to Silence.) Ezek. xxxii.2 5.They have fet her a Bed in the midst of the flain with all her multitude: her Graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcifed, flain by the Sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they born their fhame with them that go down to the Pit: he is put in the midst of them that be flain. Add 27. V. Of OBLIVION. Pf. vi. 5. lxxxviii. 12. as above, S. II. VI. Of DARKNESS. 1 Sam. ii. 9. as above, S. IV. Job iii. 5. Let Darkness and the fhadow of Death ftain it, (viz. the day of his Birth.) x. 21. Before I go to the land of Darkness, and the Shadow of Death. 22. A land of Darkness, as Darkness itself, and of the shadow of Death, without any order, and where the Light is as Darkness. xii. 22. He discovereth deep things out of Darkness, and bringeth out to Light the fhadow of Death. xvii. 13. the Grave is mine Houfe; I have made my Bed in Darkness. xxxiii.28. He will deliver his Soul from going into the Pit, and his Life fhall fee the Light. Pf. xliv. 19. Tho' thou A a 2 haft haft fore broken us in the place of Dragons, and covered us with the Shadow of Death. Add xlix. 19. in Sect. VII. P. lxxxviii. 12. as above Sect.II. cvii.10. Such as fit in Darkness, and in the Shadow of Death. Ecclef. xi. 8.- if a Man live many yearsyet let him remember the days of Darkness, for they fhall be many. Job. ix. 4. I muft work the works of him that fent me, while it is Day; the Night cometh, when no Man, can work. VII. Of CORRUPTION and DESTRUCTION. Job iv. 18, 19, 20. — He put no truft in his . Servants. how much lefs in them that dwell in Houses of Clay, whofe foundation is in the Duft, which are crushed before the Moth? they are deftroyed from Morning to Evening; they are perished for ever. xxvi. 6.Hell is naked before him, and Deftruction hath no covering. xxviii. 22. Deftruction and Death fay, We have heard the Fame thereof. P. xvi. 10.- thou wilt not fuffer thine holy One to fee Corruption. xlix.9. That he fhould ftill live for ever, and not fee Corruption. -12.-Man being in honour abideth not.-14. like Sheep they are laid in the Grave, Death shall feed on them, - their beauty fhall confume in the Grave from their dwelling. 19. He fhall go to the generation of his Fathers, they shall never fee Light. -20. Man that is in honour and understandeth not, is like the Beasts that perish. 1xxxviii. 11. Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the Grave? or thy faithfulness in Destruction. [v. Clericum, qui recte deducit Rephaim mortuos, à rapha defecit, defiit.] Add Prov. xv. 1. xxvii. 20.-AFs xiii. 36. David was laid unto his Fa thers, thers, and faw Corruption. 1 Cor. xv.18. Then they also that are fallen afleep in Chrift are perished. v. Hallet Difc. V. 1. p.313, &c. Comp. 2 Pet. ii. 1. Agreeably to these representations of our state in Death, Revelation informs us, - I. That we shall not awake, or be made alive till the Refurrection. Pf. xvii. 15. — I shall be fatisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Joh. vi.39. This is the Father's will — that of all which he hath given me, I fhould lofe nothing, but should raise it up again at the last Day. xi. 24,25,26. Martha faith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the Refurrection at the last Day. Jefus faid unto her, I am the Refurrection and the Life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet fhall he live; and whofoever liveth and believeth in me, fhall never die. [whofoever liveth, or is alive at that day. Comp. 1The iv.15.] This we fay unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are afleep. And 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.we shall not all fleep, but we shall all be changed, in a Moment, in the twinkling of an Eye at the last Trump. Rom. iv. 17. he believedGod, who quickeneth the Dead, and calleth those things which be not, as though they were. II. That the wicked shall not be severed from the righteous 'till the Refurrection, the End of the world, the Coming or Day of Chrift, the Day of the Lord, THE Day, THAT Day, &c. Matt.xiii.30. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in Aa3 the the time of harvest I will fay to the reapers, Gather ye together firft the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.-40. As the tares are gathered, and burnt in the fire; fo fhall it be in the end of this world. -41. The Son of man fhall fend forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity.-49.and fever the wicked from among the juft. xxiv.31. He shall fend his Angels with a great found of a trumpet, and they fhall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. xxv. 31, 32. When the fon of man fhall come in his glory-before him shall be gathered all nations; and he fhall feparate them one from another, as a fhepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. Add Mark xiii, 26,27. III. We are upon trial, or in a state of probation, 'till the Refurrection, or the Day of Christ. 1 Cor. i. 8. in Sect. xi. Phil. i. 10. That ye may be fincere, and without offence 'till the day of Chrift. 1Theff. v. 23.-I pray God your whole spirit, and foul, and body be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. 1 Tim. vi. 14. That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable until the appearance of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Tit. ii. 12, 13.-denying ungodliness and worldly lufts, we should live foberly, righteoufly, and godly in this prefent world; looking for that bleffed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jefus Chrift. Heb. x. 35, 36, 37. Caft not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of re ward, ward. For ye have need of patience; that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that fhall come, will come, and will not tarry. Ja.i.12. Bleffed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he fhall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. v.7. Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. 1Pet.i.7. That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perifheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praife, and honour,and glory,at the appearing of Jefus Chrift.13.-Gird up the loins of your mind,be fober,and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jefus Chrift. 2 Pet. iii. 11, 12. Looking for, and hafting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire fhall be diffolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. 14. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for fuch things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without fpot, and blameless. Rev. ii. 25. that which ye have already, hold fast 'till I come. IV. Our Chriftian Courfe, and improvements in piety in this world terminate in the Refurrection, the Coming, or Day of our Lord. Phil. i. 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jefus Chrift. iii. 10,11. That I may know him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering, being made conformable unto his death: if by any means I might attain unto the Refurrection A a 4 of |