An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 16-18

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Fourthly, The gates of death signify say others, nothing else but the grave, or those lower parts of the earth, in which mens bodies deceased are buried and laid up to rest till the resurrection. When we, that are earth in our constitution,¹ go out of the world by dissolution, our return is into the earth, into the lower parts of the earth, we sleep in the dust. According to this sense it is as if the Lord had said, Hast thou seen the state of the dead, or how it fares with them that are gone to their graves? Hast thou visited the courts and palaces of the King of terrors? Thus the gates of death are the gates of the dead.

Fourthly, The gates of death signifie say others, nothing else but the grave, or those lower parts of the earth, in which mens bodies deceased are buried and laid up to rest till the resurrection. When we, that are earth in our constitution,¹ go out of the world by dissolution, our return is into the earth, into the lower parts of the earth, we sleep in the dust. According to this sense it is as if the Lord had said, Hast thou seen the state of the dead, or how it fares with them that are gone to their graves? Hast thou visited the courts and palaces of the King of terrors? Thus the gates of death are the gates of the dead.

1Per portas mortis int•lliguntur loca subterraneana, eò quòd ibimortui see peliuntur. Pisc. Dicuntur portae mortis, i. e. mortuorum.Per portas mortis int•lliguntur loca subterraneana, eò quòd ibimortui se peliuntur. Pisc. Dicuntur portae mortis, i. e. mortuorum.

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Fifthly, We may understand by the gates of death in general,¹

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