; 2 4 Direclions tobewilling to die. ceive of their expected Meffiah ; and taking up with acar- nal falfe falvation, not purchafed byChrilt, but given by Sa- N, tan in the name Of Chrifl, and affumed by themfelves. They make it their bufinefs tohave buildings, and lands, and meats, and drinks, and honours ' and all things as pleating as may be to the flesh, and then they comp/din that they are renwilling t. dies and I eafily believe them : it is no wonder I They make it the work oftheir lives to feather their nefts, and make Pro- vifion for the flefh ; and then complain, that they are loth to leave thofe mils that they have been feathering fo long, and loth to fcatter all theheap and treafure which they have been gathering. And didyou think that gathering it was the way to make you willing to leave it ? Men load themfelves with the lumber and baggage of the world, and then complain that they cannot travail on their journey, but had rather fit down. They fall a building themhabitations in their way, when they Ihouldhave none but Inns or Tents ; and when they have be- llowedall their time, and coil, and charges on them , they complain of their hearts for being loth to leave them. Such mad doings as thefe are not the way tobe willing to die : To provide for fe/f andfitjh inyour Lfe-time, is not the way to Denyyour Lives. Sirs,theway is this, ifyouwill learn it, and flick not at the coil and trouble : Self mull be here itript nakedof all its carnal comforts, fo that it thall have nothing left to fly to or truit upon, nor nothing left that it can take delight in, and then it will away. If you would drive out an ill Tenant, you will call out all their goods, and leave them nothing but the bare walls, and not fomuch as a bed to lie on, and uncover the houfe over their heads, and then they will be gone. So if you call out all your fenfual commodities and delights, that when the flesh looks about, it thall fee no- thingbut the bare walls; and cannot find a refting place, then deathwill be lefs grievous and lefs unwelcome. Or rather in- deedeven the fiefh andfs/f mull be mortified;and in the fenfe in which it mull be denied, it mull have no being or life, (that is, as it is withdrawn from its fubordination to God) And then -there will be nothing to rife up againfl your fubmiffion to Death. Though nature as nature will keepyoufromLoving death
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