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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, There is a gathering of the spirit to God, to be judged and disposed of by him, to receive a sentence of life or death from him. And thus the spirit of every man or woman that dieth, is gathered to God, be they good or bad, believers or unbelievers, (Heb. 9.27.) It is appointed for men once to die, but after this the judgement. 'Tis the Statute Law of God, man must die, and the sound of Judgement is at the heels of death. That Text saith, but after this the Judgement. The general day of judgement shall not be till the resurrection of man from the dead; But there is a personal judgement, or a determining of every mans state when he dieth; and for that end every mans spirit is gathered to God to receive his sentence. The spirits of wicked men are gathered to him and condemned, the spirits of the righteous are gathered to him and acquitted: We are come, saith the Apostle (Heb. 12.23.) to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. David knew he must be gathered to God, but he earnestly deprecated such a gathering as most shall have, (Psal. 26.9.) Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men. It is this word, when sinners die, they are gathered; ⟨p. 594⟩but David would not be gathered as they are gathered; They are gathered to God, but it is that they may be for ever separated from him; they are gathered to a day of vengeance and wrath: Therefore David prayed, Gather not my soul with sinners. Death is called a gathering in a threefold reference.
First, A gathering to our people. Thus it is said of Aaron, (Num. 20.24.) Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, for he shall not enter into the land, &c. Death separates the people of God from their people, that is, from those that are like them on earth, but it will be a means of bringing them into the society of their people, or fellow believers who are gone before them into heaven.