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

Deadly sicknesses and extreme dangers are (as was showed in opening the words) those gates and doors. Many have been brought to those gates, and have been stepping into those shadows, who yet have been recalled and brought back again, as David and Hezekiah were, and as the Apostle Paul was, who had the sentence of death in himself, yet was delivered, trusting in him who raiseth the dead (2 Cor. 1.9, 10.)

Deadly sicknesses and extream dangers are (as was shewed in opening the words) those gates and doors. Many have been brought to those gates, and have been stepping into those shadows, who yet have been recalled and brought back again, as David and Hezekiah were, and as the Apostle Paul was, who had the sentence of death in himself, yet was delivered, trusting in him who raiseth the dead (2 Cor. 1.9, 10.)

And therefore in all such cases, whenever we are brought to the gates of death, and to the doors of the shadow of death, let us have recourse to the living God; to that God, to whom belong the issues from death (Psal. 68.20.) He that is our God, is the God of salvation, of eternal salvation, and of temporal salvation, of salvation from death by sickness, and of salvation from death by danger and trouble: our God is the God of salvation, to him belong the issues from death. As God openeth the gates of death to let man in, so he can open the gates of death to let man out. As there is a gate to go in unto, so there is a gate to go out from, or an out-gate from death. As the ways to, so the issues from death belong to God. Davids heart was full of this, when having said (Psal. 141.7.) Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth; that is, we are ready to be cut in pieces and perish by our enemies (having (I say) said this, he presently adds, vers. 8, 9.) But mine eyes are