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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
thy
passions,
O
my 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 thing
which 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
of
the 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