( ' · "9o . qhe co~nrming W() rk greater Happinefs than fuch, if it were not for ·Re~peet .to an after and immortal State. -Q_ueh. ,IV. What Confirmation _to your· •· Fatth, does that great und amdzing _, Change by Death offer, when t"t would [ee1n to be fomething merely natttral? . -. - ·-c A.nf-u'. Th~' the only wife God move~ ~ ·- herein, according to the Nature of fe– cond Caufes, and it bath various Ways 'of Approach unto Men; yet may all fee . with the furthefl: ConviCl:ion of rational . - Evidence, as well as Certainty o1 Fait-h, I. That Death in its firft -Conftitution is Penal; and comes by a · divine Ap- -Pointment unto all, not merely as Meri, 1 • but as Sinqers ; and to be no natural Ac- – cident and R~!ult of our pri111itive and original Frame. -,, ' 11. . That 'tis Death, ~.as a Penalty, ~which- keeps the Fear and ·Dread there– «>f fo much on all living, it being in .hat raft Period, -·that the eternal State of Men is decided. Ill That the Sting and Bitternefs of Sin, is fo manifeft in innumerable 'Dif .. eafes and StrokesoJ Death, which n1any ,_ ·- -· ----- ----- ~- - -~ · ~- ~-- . ··-·-· · fee1 . ~-- - I
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