Ì Natures Good-night: LuIcE 8. 52 And all wept and bewailedber; Dot be Paid, Weep not,ié is not dead but fleepeth, Ur Life is divided into labour and refe, which Natisrr wifely hash contrived into waking and fleeping, in an ad- mirable manner providing the prefervacion of our being by a teeming diflolucion of ir. We mull intermit it to continue its Die we mote one half of the natural day, that we may live the ocher ; Lie down and fleeep (as ic, were) to die in the night, that we may awake and arife to live en the morrow; fo well acquainted is our Life with Death, that our whole age appears the Changes and In - tercourfe of both. Nay this kind of death is that which continueth life: Such is the frailty of the Creature, that it immediatelyows ics being to a kind of not being, to a privation, though not limply of life, yet'=Tall co fomething very well like death. For tell me, flrongeft Conflitution ! how long canft thou labour without the relief of rcft? howlongcanfi thou awake without refrefh- ment of bleep ? Jacobs anfwer Few and evil would our days be. Thole lodes and decays the body fuffers (by labour) in the day, are repaired by reft ne night : as if the feigned Plague of Tithes liverwere our real blefling ; Et none reparana guicqu4 ami /tdie; SenThyef. re.1. the animal and vital (pinks wearied with fore travel of the day, retire to recruit new flrength to their comfortable lodgings, that in the brain, this in the heart ; refrefhed by bleep, finable the morning body withnew and lively vigour, which' elfe would fall into its principles, dead dull and earth. Now crâíq and infirm bodies require longer and more frequent bleeps; whereby we fee the breaches of Nature are ;tor a while made up and fortified : but when the body is irreparably ! wafted, beyond the remedy of theft oftenbut fhorc deeps, then is it neceffary it fall into that long deep, then perpetueu Toper urges, the whole night of death muff¡recover fuch a lofs ; no repairing this tenement,but bypulling it down to the ground. Though to Man Deathmay teem a Murtherer, yet to Humanity it is a Phyfitiau ; to the hopelefs Heathen the Grave is (as was theirs) a fire, and Deatha perrifhiitg; but to the faithful Chriflian the Grave is a bed, and Death bleeping : all fuck we may unite into Chrifts fingular,whathe fays of one we may of all, They are not dead but pp. Non mortua eft fed dermit. But I would not bave you to be ignorant, Bretberen, concerning them which are aßeep, that ye forrow'not, as others thathave no hope : For if we believe that yefro dyed and rote again ; even fo themwhichflee? in 3efuo, will God bring Web him, as affirms Sc. Paul. Whenceit appears, that if the fleep,fhe fhall do well : and shall we take it ill, that our friendsare well? fhall we be troubled upon earth, becaufe our friends are at tell under it? Forbid it Religion! pereat contri- Aaaaa Jlatio Gen; 47.9; r Thef. 4.t;, 34 John u. r r.. Aug.
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