An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

When either civil or moral good is turned into evil, we are past all hope of good; if once our light be dark, we must expect nothing but darkness. The best works of hypocrites will be found wickedness, how wicked then will they be in their worst? If their holiness be unclean, how unclean is their unholiness? All their moral light is as darkness, and all their civil light shall be turned into darkness.

When either civil or morall good is turned into evil, we are past all hope of good; if once our light be dark, we must expect nothing but darknes. The best works of hypocrites will be found wickednes, how wicked then will they be in their worst? If their holines be unclean, how unclean is their unholines? All their morall light is as darknes, and all their civil light shall be turned into darknes.

Some (especially Popish) Interpreters understand this description not of the grave, but of hell. The same word in the Hebrew serves both hell and the grave. Death looks like hell, and bears much of it's image. What is there in hell, but the agonies and sweat of death, the pangs and paleness of death? the chains and bonds of death? The state of the damned in hell, is an eternal act of dying. And all that Job speaks of the grave, is fulfilled there to the utmost. There is darkness, like darkness it self, called therefore utter darkness; there is the shadow of death without any order, there the light is as darkness. But though the Text be true of hell, yet Job had nothing to do or suffer beyond the grave, and I shall carry his discourse no further, keeping within those confines: We may learn,

Some (especially Popish) Interpreters understand this description not of the grave, but of hell. The same word in the Hebrew serves both hell and the grave. Death looks like hell, and bears much of it's image. What is there in hell, but the agonies and sweat of death, the pangs and palenes of death? the chains and bonds of death? The state of the damned in hell, is an eternall act of dying. And all that Job speaks of the grave, is fulfilled there to the utmost. There is darknes, like darknes it self, called therefore utter darknes; there is the shadow of death without any order, there the light is as darknes. But though the Text be true of hell, yet Job had nothing to do or suffer beyond the grave, and I shall carry his discourse no further, keeping within those confines: We may learn,