, I Paul have written it with mine owtl hand, but Chrifi fpeaks thus, I{efm have ratified and confirmed it with my own blood. ' 4· Another cries thus, Oh I kgow not -wh.tt will become of tm, the firft thre.u that e'!lerwM (in the da] that thon eateft there~f Gen. t. 11 , thou (halt [ure!y die) now fits on my [pirit; me think! I fee 1 h: ' grizJy forme of deat? ftanding before.me; Oh this is he that. is the J(ing offears, the ch1efofmrors,the snlet to all thofe plagues m another. world; and die I muft, there uno remedy , Oh I ftartle,and am afraid of it. · · And why fo ? it is Chrijl that died , and by his death he hath Rom s.J<J. took away the fiing of death, t~at now the drone may hiffe, but cannot hurt: come, meditate much upon the death of thrill, · and thou {halt fiR de matter enough in his death, for the fubduing of thy flavi!h fears ofdeath, both in the merit of it , in the effeCt of it, and in the end of ir.- I. In the merit of it; C hnfis death is meritorious, and In that refpeet the writ of mortality is but to the Saints .1 writ ofeafe, a paffage into glory. 2.. In the: effeCt of it, Chrifis death is the conqueft of deatll; Chrift ~Ment down into the grave to make a back. door, that the grave which was before a prifon, might now be a thorough-fare; fo that all his Saints may with eafe pa!fe through, '. \. and fing, 0 de.zth where is thy fting? 0 hell whe1·e is thy viEtory? 3. lm the end of it, Chrifis death a mongO: other ends aimes at ~he ruine ofhim that h<?d the power of death; that is, the H b Devil; and todeliver ther11; who throughfellY of death were {Ill their e .t.l4,IS' • life-time in bondttge. ChriJl purfued this end in dying , to deli- · ver thee from the feare of death; and if now thou fearefl, thy fearing is a kin~e of making Chrifrs deat.h of nooe ett:eCf. 1 fa 1 ~. 1 0 come and wtth yoy draw water out of thss well of falvatton ! 3 5. Another crie5 thus, Oh Lk_nvw not wh11t will become ofme; the very thoughts of hell feeme to aftonijh my heart ; me thinkJ I fee a little peep-hole down into hell, and the devil roaring there, bei1rg referved in chaines under d~trk;_~e!Je, tmti!l tbe judgeme~t of the great day ; and methinkJ I fee the damned flaming , and JudM, And all the wick,!d in the world, and they ofSodom and GWiorrha, there lying, and roaring, andgnafhing thetr teeth: mw, · 1 have jinved, and why jhould not 1 be d, mned ? oh why {hould not the wr11th of G~d be executed on me, yea even up·~ on me? Q...qqq I
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