And feeing the grave is the houfe appointed fot-all living* Then by way ofCorallary, Firft, Wee (hould prepare for onr going to that home; That houfe is quickly made ready for us; let us make ready for that houfe.Doe it,Firft,by fetting your houfes in order, (2Kings 20. &8j Secondly, by fetting your hearts in order ; Hav mifera- tie are they,whowhen they are foficke thattheycannot live, are yet fo unprepared that they dare not dye. Whatfoever goodly or beautiful houfes we have now, we muft fhortly have a little dark cold under-ground houfe, called the Grave , be not' ftrarigers inyour ' thoughts to that houfe, to which, we who fhould be ftrangers and are but pilgrims in this world are travelling every day. And how ftately, how proud, how high foever men have been in this world, they muft ftoope to and enter into that low built dark, and filent houfe Ills thehoufe appointedforall living. Secondly, Seeing it is fo, when God calls us to take up* our lodging there, let us quietly*and chearefully obey his call. The Appointments-ofGod muft be obeyed. Chrift was obedient unto death, even the death of the «offe,{W M M m Andhe with ' 1 9 a holy anger at any naturail ( though unfinful} ) relufrance, fayd, The cap whichmyfaehtr hathgiver, me, [ball I not drinkej (fohn 18.11.) And what cup was that? It was the cup of death, a bitter <up about.which he made that earneft prayer/Mat. 26. 39, ) 0 myfather, if it be pcjjfible, let this cstp p jfefrm me ■ yet , that was not a more earneft, then it was an humble and fubmit- tmg prayer, therefore he adds, ( v . 42,) O-tnyfather, if this cup ‘ may net paje frommeexcept Idrinke it, thy m i bedne. We may pray agairift death, but then we muft pray as Chrift u d, laying our prayer atthefooteof God. That which makes our lives fweet as well asholy, k>SHl we live having our^wills drawne foFth in continued atfts of obsdienceto the will or Godiand that which makes deaths the bitter cup of death'!weet to u s a n d us holy in dying, is, that we dye in obedience to the wuf and appointment of God, >The Apoftle -moves all men to a fteddines (not a fenceleffenefle) offpirit under affliftion upon this ground, / (lThe.i-i.)That noman bemovedby thefi nffl}bhons,fr youyeur 4feives know that vet are appointedthereunto. I may alio-caution all men againft all unquiet motions at the approach of deathv for weftnow that weare appointedthereunto. Weknow, That,hrft, €feap. 3©. A *E x p o lltio n u p e n th eB o o k e o f]b i. Verf. 23- 221
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