...Men. Job iii. 11. Why died I not from the Womb? —• 13. for now mould I have lienftill. — 16. as an hidden untimely Birth I had not been ; as Infants which never Jaw Light. xiv. 10. Man dieth — and -where is he? — 14. If a Man die, (hall he live again ? [v....

...racking of pain^ the malice, contempt, and ill-will of the world can pursue us no farther than the grave; there (< the wicked cease from troubling, and there...the " weary be at rest ; there the prisoners rest toge" ther, they hear not the voice of the oppressor." In the Third place, death is the commencement...

...desolate places for themselves ; / should have been buried among noble and firinccly an15 cesters ; Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses •with silver ; who had chains and crowns buried with them, and 16 i»bo lay in fiomfi and quiet : Or as an hidden...

...mansions of peace, where in the comfortable language of him, who once so ardently prayed a change, " The wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest" It was the opinion of an ancient writer, " that the God's concealed from men the happiness of death....

...inquietudes of life, and sets before us the image of eternal rest. There, in the elegant expressions of Job, the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the 'weary...at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they bear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there ; and the servant is free from...

...taken away from the evil to come. Ver. 2. He shall enter into peace. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. ' Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 'Ps. Ixxiii....

...sleeps until the resurrection. Of this, Job in his affliction had a pleasing view, when he said, " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest." The children of God, also, at death rest from crosses and afflictions. Man that is born of a woman...

...at rest 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves ; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birtli I had not been ; as infants which never saw light. 1 7 There the...

...it, and let it have in thee a quiet rest from all its labours ; for thus we read it written of thee, there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. '' Besides, it is, O grave, a body that hath been sweetly embalmed by a virtuous, pious, peaceable...

...forecited. 2. From all persecutions and hardships from men for the cause of Christ, Job viii. 17. ' There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest.' i I shall conclnde it with a few inferences. Inf. 1 . That the saints may be encouraged and stirred...