ISS DEATH IMPROVES TO CrI ADVANTAGE. SEAM. Xtf. Awake my charity, and feed The hungry soul, and clothe the poor : In heav'n are found no sons of need, There all these duties are no more. Subdue thypassions, Omy soul, Maintain the fight, thy work pursue, Daily thy rising sins controul, And be thy vict'ries ever new. The land of triumph lies on high, There are no fields of battle there : Lord, I would congher till I die, And finish all the glorious war. Let ev'ry flying hour confess I gain thy gospel fresh renown, And, when my life and labours cease, May I possess the proinís'd crown. SERMON XLI. DEATH IMPROVED TO OUR ADVAÑ "TAGE. .l Cox. iii. 22. Whether life or death all are yours. THE chief thingwhich the apostle has in his eye in these verses, is to represent the glory and grandeur, the trea- sures and possessions that every believer is a partaker of, by virtue of his interest in Christ; and to, shew that whatsoever - persons or affairs a christian has to do with in the natural, the civil, and the religious life, they shall all turn to his benefit some way or other. All the cir- cumstances that attend him while he continues here in this world, and even his departure out of it too, shall work for his good. Deáth is numbered among his pos- sessions as well as lift. Death may be terrible to flesh And blood, for it is a curse in its original nature and de- sign, and sinners will find and feel the curse of it; but it is transformed into a blessing to the saints by the abound= ing grace ofthe gospel. I confess, it is a christian's own death, that the holy writer seems chiefly and most particularly to design and intend here: And this I shall most largely insist upon. But since death in all its circumstances and attendants, in all the extent of its dominion, and with all its power, is under the sovereign management of God our heavenly Father; it is constrained to subserve his kind and gra- cious purposes to his own people, in all its forms and ap- pearances. And I think upon this account, that I shall not transgress the apostle's great and general design, if I take the dreadful name of DEATH, in its widest and most
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