r.Gar,ir.tj. 1iai1. Á. ifa ta.s,. au 1 -YJe-rtsYJi' way that is, dead, that theymight not be ere rcfemmecl withtheworld. Thusmuch offreedorn frommiferie,wbich is the firft benefit that comes bydeath,and the fiat fteppe to life : nowfollows the fccond,which is,that death glues an entrance tothe foule, that it may come into the pretence of theeuerIiuing God,QfChrif ,and ofail theangels andSaints in heauen. The worthines ofthis benefit makesthe death of the righteous to be no death, but rathera belling to be wifhed ofall men.The coníderationofthis made Paul to fay,7de/ire tebediffolued :;but what is the cattleof this ì afire' that foliowes in the nextwords, natnzty that bythis.dtiroiution he might come to bewit Chrifl. When the . -Ç entof eb4 rawall - Saiomons.wifdome, and the houfe that he had builtjan4feAneateofhis table,and thefittingof his fèruants,and the order of his tanniflers,and their apparell,&c. thee. farde, Hippie are thymeet, happie arethefä thy f ratmirts avhich(land eater before thee and hearer thywrfdorne: much more then may wefay, that theyare,ten thou= land foldhappie whichftandnot<intheprefenceofan,earthlyiing,but be- fore the King ofJings,the Lordofheauenandearthg and,atihisrighthand inioy pleafures for euermore.Mofesbath binrenovvmed'in-all ages forthis that God vouch afed him but. to much favouras tofee his hinder parts at his requefi: O eien, what happines is this to fee the glorie and maieflie of Godface to face,and tohaueeternaIlfelIowfhip,with Go lvurfather,Chri 1 our Redeemer, andtheholyatollour comfortmandwliue i with the blet- fed Saints and Angels is heauen forcue'' :;4 , .,rt nt Thus now the tinedpoint is manifefl namely, in what refpeas death is moreexcellent then life; It maybe here the minder ofman vnfatisfiedwill yetfather replie and lay, that howfbcuerin death the foules ofmen enter intoheauen,yet their bodies,thongh they hauebin tendetly kept for riaeate, drinke,and appareil; andhaue flept many a.night inbedsfaowne,tnufi lie in darke and loatlafome graues, and therebe wafted-atwleonfu;taedby wortnes. ./Inf. All this ittrueindeede,but alls:näthing iffo -be it we will but confider aright of ourgraues,.as-weought. We mull not iudge ofour graues,as they appear: to the bodily eye, but wemull looke upon them by theeyeoffaith, and confiderthem as they are alteredan4tchangedby the death and burial! ofCbtifl, who,b?ting,vanquifbedANth ponthe crofáe, purfued himafterward to his ownedeniand foiledsh r - theié:, tgid depriued himofhis power. And bythis.r, canesChriftin hispwne death-bathburi- ed our dcath,and bythe vertueofhisburiall,as fwcetincëfe,hath fwcetned and perfumedour grattes, and made them offlinkingand loathfomecab. bines, to become princely pallaces, and beddesofmolt fweete and hap- pie ref!, farcemore excellent then beds ofdowne. And though thebodierotre in thegrauc, or be eatenofwormes, or offr foes in the fea,or burnt toaLhe, yet that will not be vetovs amatter ofdif comfort, if we doe well confiderthegroundofall grace,natnely ourcon- iranElion withChrift. It is indeedeafpiriruall and yet a moll reall coniun. iori. Andwemull not imagine that our (oules alone are loyned to thebo- die
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