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…

But to hasten to an end:

First, this may serve to strengthen us against the fear of death, or of what shall become of us when we are dead: Since that, as ^awe go not any strange way when we die, such as none have gone before us, but a beaten path, that ^ball, even good, have gone; so we go not to any strange place, where either none are already, or none that we have any acquaintance withal; but we go to our Christian friends, to our religious Fore-fathers, ^cto a place, where we shall ⟨p. 61⟩meet again with all those, that we ^dsent from hence before us, having deceased in the faith. It is that indeed that much troubleth men and women many times, when they are enforced to travel into strange countries, and to change the places of their wonted and ancient abode; to fore-think, what an uncouth thing it will be, to come among a strange people, where they know none, and none know them. It would have troubled Jacob not a little to have removed into Egypt, had he not been ^*sure to find Joseph there. But the godly need not be troubled with any such thoughts, when they are to remove hence: For they shall go to their own people, their Friends, their Fathers: they shall be sure to ^efind country-men, kindred, acquaintance enough in heaven, that will be ^fready to receive them, to welcome them thither, to give them the best entertainment that can be there. Yea this should make us the rather desirous to die and to go hence,