A.MINEMI Stje PdN Mang; fan1itp late; and rimeand Soul and Heaven be loft. It's Death that teachethmen the worth ofTime. S. Haveyou any more to fay of this P. 6. Death teacheth men how to behave thetnfelves to each other. How peaceably do thofe bones and that dull lie together t There is no ftriving, no cruelty, no domineering or abufing others. On a death-bed you. will fay that you forgive all the world : You dare not defire revenge then, left Godbe revenged on you. And will you be worfe Living than Dead? Doth opprefíion and per fecution and treading down the poor and low, be- feem them that mull fo foon be levelled with the lowefl ? and be unable to fir away a worm that feedeth on their heart or face ? 7. I will add but one more ; Death teacheth us whe- they we fhould rather fly from fufferings or from fin. Die we moll, whether we will or no ? And is it not bet- ter todie for Chrift,, if he require it, than die without any Inch advantage ? Will it comfort us at death, to thinkwhat. fufferings we fcap'd by fin ? S. Ihave oft marvelled why God would not f ve àts fromDying, teeing' Chrili dyed for us : But now you have partly fztisfiedmy doubt. P. Though Gods great day of Judgement be to come, yet he will have fome juftice done upon (inners in this world : And though Chrift have fuffercd for us, there is a neceflìty both to our own and to the common good, that even finning. Chriffans fuffer fomething them- felves. Put God doth fo moderate it by his wifdom and mercy, that even this punifhmer,t becotneth a cure to the finThat caufeth it, and a great means to our good,. Were it but an uncertain thing, whether we fhould die or na ; D:d but fame die and forne not die; yea did u en but live as many hundred years as before thy,
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