shall arise upon them, when all shall rise
again; and then the Righteousness shall have
dominion over them, and sit in Judgement
upon them. Oh how many changes are here
which they do not effectually foresee and
provide for! Friends are taken from them;
they are taken from their wealth; Death
killeth them, Death feedeth on them: and
if here were an end, it were nothing: but
then cometh that great day after this long
night, when they must be awakened by the
last Trumpet, and see the Righteous whom
despised, sit as Judges over them. But Ver.
15. The Psalmist sheweth, how he had ta∣ken
into consideration aforehand all these
things, and was prepared for them. But
God will redeem my Soul from the power of
the grave, for he shall receive me, Selah!
David did not settle his heart upon any things
of the world, but he looked for death, and
prepared for it, made account of being
Death's prisoner in the grave; but then with∣all
he had overcome death, and the grave be∣fore
hand by the power of faith, laying hold
of the promise of God, knowing that he
should be ransomed and redeemed from it;
not as the wicked, whose hearts were set upon
the things of the world, to be carried from
the prison of the grave to execution: but
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