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Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 13:36

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Acts13:36

36 For David after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Some point these words otherwise, reading them thus; David after he had served his generation, by the will of God fell asleep. Which contains indeed a truth, viz. that God hath appointed every ones time in the world, and that the issue of life and death are his; but thus they would prove little to Davids praise; for who dies otherwise, but according to the determinate counsel of God? But this is remembred to Davids glory, that according to the will of God, he was a publick good, and he liv'd and govern'd by the rule and square of Gods word.

Notwithstanding which he fell asleep, and saw death; but such as did not deserve so terrible a name.

Buried amongst his Ancestors.

And his body corrupted as theirs; now this verse explains the former, and draws the argument home, in that it proves, that the words before mentioned, could not be meant of David; but of one that he typified, and represented.

Marginal references: Or, After he had in his own age, served the will of God.; 1 King. 2.10. Chap. 2.29.

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