Chap.i6, An Expofitionupon the BooT{ofJ© B. Verfzz. 399 ofmortality,fo then death thall (at onebit or morfel)beTwat- /owed up oflife, 2 Cor.55.4. For. Chritt hath not only conque- red, but abolifhed death, andbath.brought, not only life, but immortality to light through the Gofsel, 2Tim. i.r o. Life is good, yet when it may be Paid of a life it fhall dye , that puts an evil into life : But if life be good, how good is immortality, which is a lif: that cannot die ? Sixthly, Note, yob is very importunate to have a blot upon his goodname wiped out , his confcience was clear, his tòul was well, he could fay, Chap. t 3. Hi is my Saviour, and 'know' that Ifhsll be juftified, yet becaufe he was under, afper tions and harth cenfures, he hatlens to have thefe taken off, becaufe he was to dye thortly. If we thouldon this ground, be careful to fettle our out wardOates and credites; how much- more should we be care- full upon this ground to fee that our foules be well felled ? How thould each one fay, I will hallen toget my fins pardon- ed, my perfon juftifiech I will haften to have all clear between God and my foul For when afew years are come, 1 fhall go the way whence I fhall not return : And if I do not fee thefe things done, while I am here, I (hall never come back to fee them done, nor can theybe done at all in theplace whither I am going. There is no repenting, no reforming, no believing in the grave: if our fpiritual change be not before our natural change, it will never be. This argument thould provoke us to fettle the affaires of our fouls fpeedily. It is am lawful, nay , it is a duty to vindicate our credit, and toorderthe affairs that concern this life , becaufe we have not long to live : The haft of death thould make us haft our work, even the work of this life; much more upon this ground thould we fee that our hearts be fettled, that our etera nal peace be fettled, how should the haft of death make us haft the work ofthe life which is to come ? But as it thould make us haften that work, Co it mutt not make us huddle that work, or ilubber it over, or do it to halves. Suchhale is waflè indeed : For, if we leave our foules half fettled, and our peace half made ; and our repentance and turning to God in the midd way, we thall never come again to finish and per- fed them, no more then we (hall, to begin them. Therefore fez fpeedilyabout the work, and give your felves no rat till he
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