Cuhr.5. Epíflleto the Theffalanians. VE .9,i o. dífpoling in our outward effate, whether it (hall be by life or death : As m E L t, as ° D A V ID ; It is the Lord, la him doe whatfòeuer [cones go sd in his eies. Am I of i u- red, that neither (hall hinder my faluationahen though the Lord prolong my life, to fee neuer fo many euills ; though hec call to luffer death, neuer fo vntimely, or full of torture ; me thinkes I cannot but fay as they; The Lords wall be fulfilled . Sometimes it falls out, that life to Gods children feemes a burthen : So did it to o Elias, Peeing the cniferable deprauation of all things in the Kingdome of Ifiael, and the implacable fury of that Monfler le- zabel : So to r lob, fufpcE ing hi: frength in fuch ex tremitie of AfiElions. Sometimes Death, efpccially violent, affrights awn to amazement : it is, indeed, the moll terrible of all painfull euils. Confider wee, in either temptation, what Paul here teacheth ; What euer our lot (hall bee, whether Life or Death, our S'alsra- Ition is certaine ; founded on ,Gods vnchangeable De- cree, purchafed by the precious Bloud-(heding and Death of Chrifl. If Life be perplexed in miferie, yet hee whom thou half truffed, is able to keepe what thou haft committed un- to him. If Death fcize thee, whether naturali or vio- lent; it cannot feparare : whether wee (leepe, or wake, die, or hue, wee /halt file tegetber with him that died for vs. m I Sam. 3.18 z Sam.ís, z6. m r King.19. 4. PIo6.6.9aro. VrRS. -1,-",
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