An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

These words are an enlargement of the former reason, taken from a description of the state and condition of the dead; For now (saith Job) I should have lien still, If you should ask me a reason of my former reason, why I was so angry with that day or night wherein I was conceived and borne, wherein I had that (to me unacceptable) mercy to be preserved and kept alive? This I subjoin for the reason of it, If none of those unwelcome favours or natural rights had been done me, then, I had lien still, I had been quiet, I should have slept, I had been at rest, Either I should have been as one that never was, or I should have been at rest and quiet. The argument lies thus; Rest and quiet are desirable things, but death, in the omission of those succours, would have given me rest, therefore I desire those succours had been omitted. This conclusion is in the 11th, and 12th, verses, which we heard before. The assumption is in this 13th, verse, which he further confirms ⟨p. 400⟩in the 6 verses following, by an argument which we may thus form. I will prove, saith he, that in death I should have rest and been quiet, and lien still, for all conditions and sorts of men are quiet and lie still in death. There (or in that estate) where all degrees and sorts of persons are at rest, there sure I should have found rest; but in death all sorts and degrees of persons have found rest, therefore I should have found rest too.

These words are an inlargement of the former reason, taken from a description of the state and condition of the dead; For now (saith Job) I should have lien still, If you should aske me a reason of my former reason, why I was so angry with that day or night wherein I was conceived and borne, wherein I had that (to me unacceptable) mercy to be preserved and kept alive? This I subjoyne for the reason of it, If none of those unwelcome favours or naturall rights had been done me, then, I had lien still, I had been quiet, I should have slept, I had been at rest, Either I should have been as one that never was, or I should have been at rest and quiet. The argument lyes thus; Rest and quiet are desireable things, but death, in the omission of those succours, would have given me rest, therefore I desire those succours had been omitted. This conclusion is in the 11th, and 12th, verses, which we heard before. The assumption is in this 13th, verse, which he further confirmes ⟨p. 400⟩