Twenty Realms for denying Life. and fenfitive appetite, and the inferiour faculties of nature in one thing,why not in another ? Thefe lower powers were made to be ruled by reafon, as leafs are made to be ruled by men, and more. And therefore feeing this Argument from Nature is but from the brutiih part of Nature it is but a brutish Argument. And if yet you fay , that for all thefe words, Death is fogreat an enemy to you, that lost cannot choofe it I anfwer, that is becaufe your teafon is not illuminated and elevatedby faith, to fee theNeceffity of choofmg it ; and to fee thole higher and better things, which by this meansyou may obtain. Had you that heavenly life of faith and love which the fpirit worketh in the Saints, it would carry you above this prefent life, and take you up with higher Matters, and thew you that (andfo thew it you ) as should procure your own confent to die. But becaufe this is the great point that Chrift doth purpofely here try our felf-denyal by, and a point of fuch great ne- ceffity to be lookt after, I (hall ftay a little longer on it,while I give you, firfi fome Reafons tomove you and 2. Some Di- redions to affift you,toget a felf-denying fubmiffion toDeath when Chrift requireth it. The many lamentable defeds ingrace which the inordinate fear ofdeath doth intimate,' havealready opened in the fourth Part of the Saints Refi : and therefore may not now repeat them, but thall add fome fewConfiderations more. I95 CH A?. XXXVIII TwentyReafons fordenying Life. COnfider, that Our Livesare not our Own; but God that Aloth require them is the Abfolu:e Lord of them. More truly then you are owner of any thing that you have in the world,is he the Owner ofyour lives aid you And therefore both in Reafon and Julli,ze we fhould be content that he difpofeof his owns If he maynot freely difpofe of you and C c 2 your 0.11M111111111Milmmiiiiimirau.wasourliala
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