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

Then again, (That we may keep in this clause to the exposition given in the last, of the desolate places,) we may understand by the houses that these Princes filled with treasure, the graves, the Tombs wherein they were buried; And it is the language of Scripture, to call the grave a house, mans house. Two Texts I will give you for it, one out of this book, Job 30.23. where Job speaking of the grave, calleth it the house appointed for all living; And Eccles. 12.5. where Solomon calls it our long home, Man dieth, ¹and goeth to his long home; the word in the Original is, he goeth to the house of his age, or to the house of age. God is called the rock of ages, because he is an everlasting strength, Isa. 26.4. The grave is called an house of age, because it is a very lasting house, an abiding house, a house where man must abide till God sound him up by the voice of a Trumpet to the resurrection; So then the grave is likewise called an house, the house of all living, because thither every one that is living is travailing, man travails to the grave as to his house; And a long-home, in opposition to our short home, our uncertain abode in those houses wherein we dwell upon the earth.

Then againe, (That we may keepe in this clause to the exposition given in the last, of the desolate places,) we may understand by the houses that these Princes filled with treasure, the graves, the Tombes wherein they were buried; And it is the language of Scripture, to call the grave a house, mans house. Two Texts I will give you for it, one out of this booke, Job 30.23. where Job speaking of the grave, calleth it the house appointed for all living; And Eccles. 12.5. where Solomon calls it our long home, Man dieth, ¹and goeth to his long home; the word in the Originall is, he goeth to the house of his age, or to the house of age. God is called the rock of ages, because he is an everlasting strength,