Abraham's decease A meditation on Genesis 25.8. Delivered at the funeral of that worthy…Abrahams decease A meditation on Genesis 25.8. Deliuered at the funerall of that worthy…

Secondly, the use of the last of these points may be to show a difference between godly and worldly men. The godly have oft even a satiety of life: ^mAs willing they are to leave the world, as men are wont to be to rise from the board, when they have eaten their fill, or so much as they desire. But with worldly men for the most part it is far otherwise: they have never enough, as of ⁿthe wealth of this world, so of ^othis present life: by their good will they would never die. It is true indeed, that sometime, either crosses and calamities, extraordinary disasters, or sore torturing pains and long lingering diseases, out of a kind of impatience, may make them ^pweary of their lives and ^qdesirous of ⟨image 34⟩death, which but for those grievances and a••oia•ces they would else be far from: Whereas the godly, with Abraham & David, even then also, ^rwhen they have a good and a comfortable continuance of life, accompanied and attended as well with health of body, as with ^shonour and wealth, yet have their fill of it, and are as well willing to leave it, as the other are some dish of meat that they have eaten their fill of. Yea ^tso fondly are worldly men herein oft affected, and their hearts so possessed with the love of this life, that though they know not how to live, yet they are not willing to die; though their life be so irksome and painful unto them, that they seem to be ^u