30 The ChHrciJes Mr:tr1i11gt~ --=----- a:eath,that is, all this life isbell:owedon a Chri.. frian for his a·dyamage : to another man it is not fo; the longer hee lives, it is theworfe for him, . he ha.rh the further .reckoning; it doth bat make his linne ripe, and but lay up a treafure ofwrath .for him.; fo that all a ma-la:S life long, hee doth but-gathedl:icks tomake a fire to confume him at the la!l day. But now in the ponion ofa Chri– fiian, this is one thing, that Jefus Chrift bell:ows upon bim, that all his life is for qis advantage; all the good workeshedorh, all thofe .tball be re. membred, all thofe fhall goe along with him, and bring a fure rewar·d ; and then not onely life is his, but death 1i5 alfo. My beloved, it is a ftrange thing , that this lhould be reckoned arno~g thedowries, and commodities, and pri– viledges that Chri.ll:s beftowes ·onhis Spoufe, to. bring death with him; ye.t this is agreat privi .. ledge' that bee beftowe,s death onus ; for wnat . were the conqition ofa Chrill:ian ifdeath were not? were it not the mo~ miferable _of all o– ther ? for ifthere were no-dearh, there ihould be ~ noRefurrcc:tion i therefore death muR: needs be · a very great advantage·: it is that, that m~kesway for us,. to deliver us out ofall the miferies of this life, and to give us poffeffion ofthat everlafting Kingdome that is provided f9r us. whether they GC< - thingJ prefont, or thingJ to come, that is, all that be– . long to this prefent life, and not onelythofe, but th0fe that belong to the life to come , all thofe are yours: th~s is that we haveby Chrifr. · And lall:Iy confider, how faire a lifeyou lhall live
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