io ACature's Good-night. s Pet ; u Luke 16. 9, Nil non mortele tom'', Pea's sú exceru ía- genüquefont, John 6. 24, i Kings f. 4. Ovidmt. t r. Averu:esl.tof, t)rpbeus. bymno in :";tr.tuq; odomitar fc, tabarum, &c. Sen. Mete. fur. Ecclef. 9.6. Jam. 4. I. cbryfoft. Job;. 17. Luke f. f. Patermiferi. tors Wit was- lia(acoberais- cula. Plato in Tim*. Awake therefore thou that fleepef}, and dream not whila thou l vel}, that thy foul (hall die when thou art dead : for as loon as the departs the prifon of the body, either (he afcends anwaive fphere of joy, and pleafure, and glory, or defceuds into a paffive hell of horrour and torment, as unexpreffible as is is un- avoidable : the foul is eithera brand in hell, or a flat in heaven immediately upon her expiration, and that for ever. Lazarus Raid not for his comfort, nor Di- for his laft day. But faith Arabam foon ves torment till the new, as as they were dead, but now be is comforted, and thou art tormented. Luke 16. if. Seeing therefore fetch adiverfe entertainment waits us at the Gates of death, What manner of perfons ought ye to be in all holy converfation andgodlinefs z How fhould your charity make to your felves friends of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlafiing habitations. What fpi- ritual providence to get Oyl into our lamps, and a Wedding garment on our backs, that we be not left either in nakednefs or darknefs ? When St. Aufiin would open the fountain of all difturbancesin this world, and miferies in the next, he fays it is becaufe men do uti datis tanquam innatie;rhe mil- placing of immortality is all ; the voluptuous removes it from the foul, and the cove ous place it on the body, or goods, or both, though they (peak it not out , yet their inward thoughts are, that their houfes 'hall continue for ever, Pfal. 49. r I. Hence proceed thofe cares and labours, thofe frauds and violences in the world to (ecure our interefts here. But (beloved) the foul only is immortal; the world may leave us whiff} we live, but we mull leave it when we die : be it our care to u(e all holy arcs, to lay out our days inall devout preparations, to (mute our eternal interef}s. Labour not for the meat that perifhetb, left you perih for your labour, but for that whichendureth untoeverlafing life; for it isthe body onely, not the foul, which is not dead butfleepetb. 4 A fourth proportionis in their government, which is like that of Solomon in refi on every flde,Sobsnus quiet reruns, * Kbnuo , l'Au izur drdaaunr, the cnyls and cares of the day are {lumbered all in the quiet of bleep at night. Our life is a day of travail and vexation : Death is the night wherein are buried all our cates and labours. Man is (as I have (aid) Mifery, then death which is the end of man, mutt be the end of Mfery. All their love and their hatred and Y their envy, is now peri(hed, Paid Solomon of the dead. Thofe wars and fightings arifing from thole lufts, have not only a ceffation, but an oblivion and final peace in the grave. The railing murmer of the drums, and trumpets furly node, fright not the dead; the artificial lightning and mimick thunder of the gun nothing difturbs the quiet of the grave. Noce); i Wow, dead men do not bite ; oppreffion, revenge, and cruelty, are not the bafinefs of our carkaffes; There (faith Job, pointing to the grave) thewicked ceafe from troubling ; There the prifoners refs together, they hear not the voice of the oppreffour, and the fervant u free from his wafter, the labourer coomplains not of the heat and burden of the day, nor the Per manof toyling aß night to catch nothing, for there the weary are at refs, as Job affirms. Nay that chrtftian duell, thofe unextingui(hable skit - mi(hes in the breafls of Saints, between the fells and the fpirit whilft we live, are determined into a ceffation by the hand of the grave. Could I prefent you an inventory of all thofe fins and forrows,thofe anxieties andcares, that fweat and labour, thofe troublefotne attendants on the heirs of Adam's curie, through this vale of mi'ery: we fhould eafily confefs with Rupertus, that it was not ¡rats juflitia, but miferantis gratia, an a& of judgement, but Grace, char finful man was made mortal: and with Plotinus fay pater mifericors, _. the Lord was great in mercy when he made our days few in mifery: Of Ifachars judgment all,whofaw that refi wasgood,Gen. 49. x5'. We fliould flie to St. Paul's curio difolvi, and defrre to be defolved with higher appetite than Miters court gold, or the emboffed Hart the fprings, the (weary Labourer the fhadow, or the wearied bleep, which to the labourer is f weet. Since here we not onely rett from our labours Rev. 14.13. as oxen unyoak'd, but in all moft eminent and livree
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