dust of Jacob] The infinite multitude of Jacobs or Israels posteritie are as the dust of the earth, Genesis 13. 16.
let me die] He would be like the godly in an happy death, but he cared not to be like them in an holy life; but his end is not like to be the same with theirs, unlesse he walke the same way with them, Proverbs 11:7. Numbers 31:8.