Villory Dver Dea~h. 'p E R · I 0 D 111. From Death, through eternity. ·1T remains, that we confid~r the Promife-ofeternal life to the eleCt, as it i~ accomplifh•d to, and bath its effeCl: upon them, from their Death, all along thro' Et~rnity. And fo the great lines of it are two; viz. a promife of vi8ory over death, and aprom~fe ofever.. lafting life in heaven: And thefe things I fhall tou~h, more briefly, havil)g handled them at large elfewhere. ' I. The Promifo aj ViCtory over Death. · The promife of eternal life comprehends a·prom-ire ofviClory over death, to be conferr'd on all and eve- _ ry one of the fpiritual feed, in the encounter with that lail: enemy, Ifa . xxv. 8. ' He .will fi~allow up death ·in viCl:ory, and· the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces.' Afrer the weari fom march, and the . reiterated fights of faith, they have in their paff.1ge, through the wildernefs of this world ; they ;have to pafs the Jordan of death, and to fight the lafi battle with that enemy. But the viCtory ' is fecur'd on their · fide, by promife: of which there are two chiefbranches, to wit, a promife ofdiforming death, and a promife ofdeflraying it. 1 • Firfl, .There is a promife ofdifarming death to the dying b~liever; fo that it lhall at no rate be able to reach him a ruinating fl:roke. -Hof. xxiii. ~4· ' 0 d~th,, il _will be thy plagues ;' namely, by taking the fiing quire away, I Cor. xv. 55· When fin enter\.l the world, death follow'd ;· and fin furnifh'd death with an envenb.med fl:ing, wherewith to kill th« £inner, both foul and body at once : the holy law, with its curfe, fixed this fling in death's hand ; having firfi: fo pointed it, tha-t it could not mifs of d,oing executi· ' on.
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