Vife. z. 5 6 ojthe Rich snanond Lazarus. their good name, and the loíl'e oftheir time here Befides, for their afflidions,theirdeath onely makes an end of them; lifeandmifery being as two twins, that are or ne together, and muf{ die together. And is it not then thegreat aduan. tage of the righteous , and their great preferment by death, that by it they are drawne outof fo manyand fatali euils,in. to the bleffed reft andgloryofGod,in the which they (hall continue euer? So long as they abide here in their tents of warrc,they meff not put off their barndieat any tune: day and night they mutt lie in thef}ald, c.xpeUing a battell, wherein is no time of truce. For if Satan be ouercorne at one time , at another beewill fet vpost them .: onely death ends the battell,not to his auaile, but to theirs. They that die in thofe battellsarecuercome ; in thofe other theSaints neuer ouercome till they die : and is not their death then, their vndoubted aduantageand gaine t hat fodie? But doth God take away the righteous fpcedily and foo nefi,becaufe the worl1 is not worthy ofthem,as the wicked arevnworthy toline in theworld ? Then,they that furuiue the righteous, haue iu(i caufe to feare that for their vnwor- thtnedfe fuck arc taken from them ; and becaufe t hey no .betterregarded them, nor Gods ore by them. Some re- joice when a goodmandies ; not becaufe he is taken from labour to refl,rom death to life; but becaufe they hated him for his goodncs,anddefired rather hisrcome then hiscorn panyhere : but let filch know that LUt beingdepartedout ofS',dome,fireandbrimftonewill comequicklyafter, gen. r9. 1 7. 23. a4. For the wheate beinggathered into the barne, what (hall be done with the taras ? (hall they not (being bound vp for the fire) be fet on a burning? 11?ath. r 3.3o. When the godly Lazarrsr isdead, not long after dieth the vngodly Dities.: but Lazaru,is in Abrahams boforne, and therich man in hell in torments. Alfoo.neas Noah is in the Arke, theworld that mockedhim, is in their graueofwa ters, and mofi ofthem in theircenterofure. Therefore, when the righteous peri(h, thewicked (behind them) haue great caufe tohowle and weepe, but no .caufe to laugh or be
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