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John Trapp on Isaiah 57:2

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Isaiah57:2

Ver. 2. He ſhall enter into peace] i. e. Into heaven, where the righteous (however looked upon as loſt, ver. 1.) ſhall have life and peace, Rom. 8.6. joy and bliſs, Mat. 25.21, 23. reſt and peace, Rev. 14.13. and this [non-Latin text not transcribed] amodo, ſtrait upon't ſo ſoon as ever they are dead; from henceforth, forthwith their ſouls have happineſſe unconceivable. As for their bodies,

They ſhall reſt in their beds] So their graves are called, by an elegant Metaphor: like as the bier that carrieth to it, is called Matteh, a couch, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. 2 Sam. 3.31. the burying-place a dormitory, or place to ſleep in, and the Reſurrection an awaking, Pſal. 17. ult. To this bed Moſes went up, when his Father bad: he dyed ad [illegible: 1 letter]s Jehova, Malmould. Deut. 34.5. which the Jew-Doctors expound, as though God did take away his ſoul with a kiſſe: like as the loving mother kiſſeth the child, and then layeth it down to ſleep. Rhodingus, a Dutch Divine, when he perceived he ſhould dye,Melch. Adam. deſired to be laid in another hed which he called his bed of reſt, and upon which he had long before written this verſe, Ʋt ſomnus mortis, ſic lectus imago ſepulchri.

In this ſhort bed of the grave ſhall be laid up the infinite miſeries of many years; the bodies of the Saints ſhall by rotting, be refined, their precious duſt preſerved, till at laſt it ariſe incorruptible. O dieculam illam!

Each one walking in his uprightneſſe] Or, walking before him, or right over againſt him: that is, keeping equipage with him; as when one friend walketh with another.

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