.2849 Th~ Jl!icl:ed dji~g, driven a~ay State IV. to prepare for death, that ye may die fafely ? I anfwer, t have told you already, what mull be done. And ,that is, your nature and fiate mull ~e changed: ye 'mull: be 'horn •gain; ye mufi be united to jefus Chrifi by faith. And tiU this is done, ye are not cap:tble of other diretlion3, which belong to one's dying comfortably; wh~reofwe may difcourfe aftei~'afds, in the due place. ' .. ·, 'l I ' HEAD II; ' .. The Difference betwixt the RIGHTEous 4nd the · ' WicKED in their Death. . PR.Ol"iRBS xiv•.32. The 'Willud iJ driven away ·ill Mr 'Witlednefi: ou( thd righteous b-ath hope in his death. T HIS text looks like ~he cloud betwixt the lfraclitel . · , and Egyp.tiam; havmg a dark fide towards the lat· - ter, and a bright fide toward the for mer.. 1t reprefent~ death ' like P~ardoh's jaylor, bringing the chief butler and the chief baker out of one prifon; the one to be re!lO.red to his of.. 'ce, and the other to be led to e?'ecutioo. It fhows the difference betwixt the, godly and ungodJy in their death ; who, as they aCt a,very different part in life; to, in death, tlave a vafily different exit. Firfl, As to the cleath of a wicked man: here is, ( 1.• ) The .,anner of his. p;;ffing out of the world. He is drh--~n aru.•aj; mamely, in his dee}th, as is .dear from the oppofi'te claufe. He is forcibly thruft out of his pJa-ce in this ·world; dri':en away as chaff before the wind. (2.) The !late he paffeth. away in. He dies in a fioful and hopelefs fiate. 1. In .a_fin· / ful flate; he ,is driven away 'in hiJ rvJicludneji. He lived in it, and he dies in it : his filthy garments of fin , \in rwhich be Wrapt ap himfelf in his Jife. are hi~ prifon garm~nts, in whicp be fhalllie wrapt up for ever. 2· ln .a hopelds Hate; 'lut the righteotu hath hop~ in his deatli: which plainl'y ir,npotts the hopeldfnef! of the wicked in their death. ~'hereby is not mean~, that no wi.cked man lhall have any hope at alJ when he is a dying; but {halj die in defe_air. No : fome– tjme• it is fv icdeed; btit frequent!y it is otberwife : 'fooliili , virains l I
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