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A
freatife
of
Gonfcience.
77
more.
And
fo
Job
;
Let
me alone,
that
I
may
take
comfort a
lit-
Jab
io.zo'
tie,
before
I
go,whence
I
fhall
not
return. Thefe
good
men
were
2z'
then fomething unwilling
to
die
They
might
have
many rea-
fons; moll
likely this was
one,
That
they might
be
better
pre-
pared,
and
more
fit
and ready
for
their departure.
4. Some
of
Gods
people
;
as
there,
Job
and
David, at
other
cimes
;
I
fay,
fome
of
Gods
people
have
fuch
marvellous peace with
God
as
that
if
it
were
Gods
will they
had
much
rather
die then
live
;
I
Chi'.T,z3.
de
fire
to be
di
jrolved,
faith
Paul,
and
to
be
with
Chrill
;which
is
farre
better.
It
may
be
in
regard
of
the Church,
or
the
care
of
their
children and charge
God
hath
laid
on them, they could
be
content to
remain [till in
the
body
nevertheleffe, they
ac-
count
their
(late after death
much
better
;
and, were it
put
to
I
Kings
them
whether
to
die
or to
live
longer here, they would
choofe
'9.4.
death
rather
of
the
twain. Nay,
Elias requefted
for
himfelf
that
he
might
die
:It
k
enough,
Lord:
take
away
my
life.
Not
that
they love
death
it
felf;
for death
is
evil in its
own nature,
con-
trary to
nature,
a
badge
of
finne
:
but
for
the
love they
have
to
and
the
affurance
they
have
of
eternall
life
after
death.
5.
Nay
there
is
no child
of God
but
may
truly
be
Paid
to
love
death,
and
to
love
the
day
of judgement
and
the appearing
of
Chrift
Jefus.
Divines
ufe
to
put
this
as
a
ligne
of
Gods
children
:
Nay,
the
Apoftle
maker
"h
this
as
a
propertie
of
Gods
children,
to
love
(hrifts
appearing:
I
have
fought
a
good
fight,
faith
Paul,
I
have
faniJhedmy
courfe:
:
There he
teileth
us
of
his
own
peace
;
and
then
he tellLth
us
of
his
reward
;
From
henceforth
is
laid
up
2-
Ttm,4.&
for
me
a
crown
of
righteoufne
fife,
which the
Lord
the
righteous
?edge fhall
give
me
in
that
day
;and
not
to
me
onely,
but
to
them
alto
that
love
his
appearing:
that
is,
to
all his
children
:
For
all
the children
of
God
love
the appearing
of
Jeffs
Chrift
to
judgement, Though
all
do
not
delire
it
with the
fame
flrength
of
faith, yet
all
delire
it
with
faith,
They
believe
that
aria
bath
deftroyed him
that
hath
the
porter
of
death,
which
is
the
devil
";
Fi
b.xry,,
they
beleive
Chrift hath taken
away deaths
fling,
which
is
finne,
and /iralloWed death
up in
vúçory; and may
all
fay, Thanker
be
un-
I
Cor.
i
-.
6
to
Cod
why
bath
given
us
vi5lory
through
our
Lord
Plus
Chrift.
57
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