3 9+ Peace in Death, or, fufficient to overthrow this dotage, for howwere death to theKighteous a difmif= fion, aIooung, a freedom from mifery, if there follovved after it a torment offar greater extremity then át any time before was ever tailed of ? So that the death of the fervants of Godbeing (as I have proved it to be) an enlargement from mifery, certainly the foul is not bound inany newPrifon, whence it mull expea, and Wait, and pray for a fecohd difiniffion. vfe For confolati- on óf the Saints. Gen.4i. 4 Rea. 5t.4. Eflh. 8.17e i Job. 3.2. t Gor. t ;. t z. ,Quefi; Anti. How to know; whether the dayof death be a dilchatge from all for- mer, and fol- timeofour lifehere,oúr beingftabjeit to corruption, and fin, bath teemedunto us lówing wife- thegreatefl burden, and bondage. They vvhich have groaisddand mourned under "e'' their ovvnnatural corruptions, as it vvere under Tome heavyand tyrannous yoak,or as the Ifraclites rnoùrned under their Egyptian Task- mafteri, to them only (hall theday of death, bea day of freedom. If fin be not aburdento thee; if thoudoll notmany times lament, andeven mourn to think hovv thouart Carried captiveunto evil ; ifthou doll not vvithgrief feel hovv thou are clogged vvith corruption, and hindredby it from doing the good vvhich thou fhouldell, certainly death vvill be to thee the beginning of thy thraldome, and after it thou (halt be a perpetual bond- fiavennto Satan in th kingdomofeternal darknefs: Mark ibis all ye that take de- light in evil, towhom it is apaftimetodo wickjdly, and who leek rather how to fatif. fie, thanhow to fupprcfs your own corruptions, who repineitakindofhappinefs to follow the fwingofyour owíilulls, and to have liberty todo as yourownhearts do lead you ; when you die, this!hall be your reward, even a moll miferable and end.' lets captivity Under Satan, him have youferved in the tufts of fin while ye lived, his (laves (hall yoube without hope of releafement, world without end. This is the right Applications of this Dotrine, death is a dayof enlargement to the godly, it is a difiniffron. The nextparticular h, that it is adifmiflronaccompanied with peace; the lean we are taught hence is that, Don,'. 5. TiefervantsofGod have attbeirgoing outofthe world, acomfortable, a quiet, and The Saints at peaceable departure. their going ;hence have a ThisSimeon here, he prayed for no other thiig, butthat his end might beas the commfortabk endof the Righteous is ever wont to be, even a departurehence inpeace. Hence is andpeaceable g departure. that general rule ofthe Pfalmifk, Mark the perfect man, andbeholdthe upright man, PCaL ;7.37, for the end ofthat man is peace. Agreeable whereunto is that ofSolomon; that, Nov. t4. iz.. the righteous hash hope in bie death. And memorable to this pnrpofe is thatwhich 'is floried ofold father ,íkcob,Ihewingunto us the quiet end of the Righteous,Hegga- Gen. à9. ; t. it ered up hisfeet into the bed, andfogaveup theGhoít. It was the bleffing promifed a5 toAbrabam,that he shouldgo tóhis athers in peace. And the fame was made togood a King: 22.50. g f p fofids. There is a two -fold reafon hereof. Fief, In the next place, this Do&rine makes much for the Comfort ofboas fervants 1 thefaceofDeath to thewicked is very dreadful,theday of it isto them thebeginning forrows, their fouls are inflantly arrelled by the damnedfpirits,and kept inever- falling. chains ofdarknef : but to thole that are the fervants ofGod it is otherwife. I may bywayofaileronto the phrafe ofniy Text,compare their day'unto that which happened doro 7áftph,in which hewas broughtoutofprifon tobe Rater overall the landofEgypt. So is their death untò them a dayofBailment out ofprifon, a day in which all liars 'hallbe ulpedaway3 In which they (hall have beautyfor afnes,and the oyl of gladnefs, for the Sfirit of heavanefs ; ànd the long white robes of Cbrills Rigbteoufnef, by which they (hail be prefented blamelefs unto God. That day (hall be to them,even as was the day ofefcape to the _levyes, a feafiandagoodday in which they /hall fee Goda heos, andknow him, as theyare knownofhim. But happily thou mail( fay, how (hall Iknow that theday of Death, is thé dayof diffolution, and:this kind of dilmiflioh? Avery neceffary quare indeed this is : forevery min almofl is readyto challenge to himfelfapart of this happinefs, and it is a matter prefumed uponbymany, which (hall never enjoy it: .I will thereforegive you one certain mark,by vvhich ver may knovv affuredly, that the dayof our death (hall be to US, aday ofenlargement,andof fìnaldifcharge fromall,both formerand follovvingmiferies, and that isthis ; if in the
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