37 0 Directions for getting and keepin tion firl} : or would be fitter to meet our Lord. Blaine not a man to be fomewhat backward, that knows it muff go with him for ever in Heavenor Hell according as he is found at death. But thefe two be not fo much a loathnets to Dye, as a loathnefë to Dye nom, at 1431'3 time. 3. There is allo in all men living, Good and bad, a natural abhorrence and fear ofdeath. God bath put this intomans nature (even in Innocency ) to be his great means ofGoverning the World. No man would live in order, or be kept in obedience, but for this. I-le that cares not for his own Life, is Matterof anothers. Grace Both not root out this abhorrency of Death, no more then it unmanneth us : Only it refirains it from ex- ceis, and Co far overcometh the violence of the Pal ton, by the apprehersiions of a better life beyond death, that a Believer may the more quietly and wil- Jingly fubmit to it. Paril himfelfdefireth not Death, but the Life which followeth it ; He He had io de- part, and to be with Chri,1 : that is, rather be in Ieaven then on earth, and therefore he is con- tented to fubmit to the penal fharp paffage. God clothnot command you to Defire death it felf; nor forbid you fearing it as, an evil to nature, and a pu- ma}ment of fin : Only he requireth you to delire the Blefíednefs to be enjoyed after Death, & that fo earnef}ly as may make death it feif the caller toyou. ThankGod,if the fear of death be fomewhat abated in y =u, though it be not ffTetened. Men may pre- tendwhat they pleafe, but naturewill abhor death as long as its nature, and as long as a man is man : elfe temporal death had been no punifhment to Adam, if his Innocent nature had not abhorred it as
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