234 Cbap.3o. .tin Ezpofition upon the Booÿ, o f Jo s. Verf.24. burdens. And there is not only ànegative, but an affirmative or poficive good in death to thole that are good, as it frees them from all thole things that areevil! fo it is a mranes to let them into & lead them unto the full pof effion and enjoyment of their chiefefl Good, TheprefenceofGcd, ìn 7hofe prefence there it (not only no forrow,but) fullnes of Toy, and at ;ph f right hand there are ( not only no paines, but) pleafuresfor°evermore ! Though while believers live, They are in deaths often,yet once dving,they (hallalwayes live. Secondly , This comfort isin it; ifdeath, and the grave, free believers from all their fufferings, that the fufferings of believers ( like the plea`ures of fin) are but for a*feafon. This life is but tbort, therefore the (ùfferings of this life cannot be long. Wee fpeas a fadly fometimes, O our forrows, and our fufferings are long-vi(bg'd, they Tooke as if they would alwayes Taft. A little muble is much to us, a,4 if it continue long, we reckon it a kind of-eternity ; we quickly chinke the forrows and troubles of this life, fo long and fo brood, that they cannot be meafured, yet our life is fo narrow & ibort,thac we can hardly find any thing fhort & narrow enough t, meafure it by. Our life at broadest is bu: as a hand breadth, and at longeft'tis hug a !Pan. 1,,ng. Certainly our ,forrows cannot be very broad, nor our afEliOions very long, fee- ing our lives are fo (bort and narrow. Therefore the'Apofìle calls all our aftlic& ions, even thole that are heavieft, litht afffl=ti- ens, which are but f r a moment ; our afflitiiorscan be but for a rnomen:, becaufe our lives are but for a moment : fo that if the aftlidions ofa Godlyman be as long as his life, Ord longer they cannot be) yet they are but fhort and momen"am, .Tor the time ofhis life compared with all time is very (bort, even a poore pit- tanceand parcel of time, but the time of this life compared with eternity is but a moment, yea the times of ml men that ever lived or (hall live till time (hall be no more, b i g lad or fum- med up together, and their total( fumme compared with eterni- ty, are but an indivifable poynt or moment of time. Thirdly . Let not true Believers feare the grave. for there they fhall bury all their fearesar or let them mourne iruinnd °_' ate- ly when their godly friends goe to the gave, for dico they fns!! neither weepenor mourne any more; why fhQulô art be over- burdened with forrow for them, who are dilburde 'd ofail their forrows ?
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