Baxter - HP BV4647 .S4 B39 1660

222 Direitions to be willing to die, for your unwillingnefs to die, as death is the 141 enemy to be conquered by Chrift, at the Refurreaion, fo the fears of death and the power of it, is the laft evil that we thall be troubled with ; and you muff not expeCt to be fully freed from thefe fears, in this life : for deathwill be death, and man will be man. But yet let me tell you that before you die,God mayvery much abate your fears ; and very ordinarily doth fo with his fervants ; I. By giving them that grace that is fuited to a dying Rate ; and 2. By the help of ficknefs and pain it- felt : And that is one great reafon why ficknefs thall ufually go before death, that pain and mifery may make the fleth even a wearyof it felf, and make the foul a weary of its com- panion, andboth awearyof this miferable life. And now I fliall briefly name fome few Directions which if you will praCtife, you will more eafily fubmit to death. CH AP. XL. Directions to be willing to die. Dina 1. 1-1Y all means endeavour the ftrengthening of -Llyour Belief of the Reality ofeternal life, and the truthof the promife of Chriff concerning it. For ifyou Believe it not, you cannot die for it ; nor cheerfully fubmit to anatural death, through the hopes of it. This is the fum or principal work of the Chriftian faith to Believe the ever- Lifting life as procuredfor us by the love of theFarber, the Obe- dience, Death, Befterrellion and Interceffion of the Son, and the S4PfaiflcationoftheRolIGhoff.lt is theunfoundnefs or theweak- nefs of this Belief, that is the principal caufe of our unwilling- nefs to di Dirt& 2. By all means endeavour to get andmaintain the Affurar ,z of your Title to this Promife and Felicity. Get found evidence, and keep it clear : Expunge all blots without delay. Take heed of fuch fin as woundeth Confcience, and waft, al comfort, and grieveth theCpirit ofAdoption by which you

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