·-. OfMr. Henry Scoug~l. -. 455 defigq. tor which we are fent into !heworld~ and in this refp~a he being fantlijied in a .little time, hath fulfilled a long time: fo that he bath truly lived much in a ,few years, · and died an old man in eight and twenty~ He hath now finifhed the work that God bath given him to do: he bath accomplilh– ed the thing. for wnich he was fent into the • I world: by death he hath now perfeCted the facrifice of hin1felfand the will of God is fulfilled in him. W hatever horror there · ' ~1ay be in death to the natural man, how– ever terrible it is to the wicked and impe- , nitent; yet to the godly, to all that confider it in Jefos 9hrifl, it _is full of joy and con1~ fort. 0 death where is thy fling? ·o grave, ' where is thy vidory? The /li11g ofdeath is fin, and the flrength offin is the law. . Bttt thanks be' ~o god, who hath g iven us the vic– tory through Jefos Chrifl our l_Jord. e bath made the king of terrors to become the objeCt of the mo~ ardent defires. · and willies of his own ;· for if to us to live- be ' · Chrifl, fure ·. To die is gain I will not now launch out into this boundlefs ocean, to ,fpeak of I the unfpeakable happinefs of the other world, and of the great advantages. of the death of thofe whofe life is· Chrifl's. But . 0
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