Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…

Paul Against the fear of death, note these preservatives: First, death it freeth the godly from the tyranny of Satan, sin, the world, the flesh, and eternal damnation; yea from infinite both perils and losses, and doth place us both safe and happy under the shadow (as it were) of Christs wings. Secondly, Christ by his death hath sanctified unto us both death and the grave. 3 Christ is both in life and death, gain to the godly, Phil. 1. 12. 4 Those consolations which the spirit of Christ doth suggest to the souls of the faithful, do by many degrees surmount the dolours of death. 5 The desire of that most bright and glorious beholding of God, and the presence of those Saints which are departed before us. 6 In stead of our bodies we shall be clothed with glory, 2. Cor. 5. 1. 7 The sting of death, namely sin, is then so taken away, as that that serpent can no more hurt us. 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death, where i• thy sting! O grave, where is thy victory! Heb. 2. ⟨p. 177⟩15. That he might deliver all them, which for fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage. 8 We should not so much think of our death, as to take an exact account of our life. For that man cannot die ill, who hath lived well: and he seldom dieth well, that hath lived badly. 9 The Angels they stand at our elbows, that so soon as a Saint departeth, they may with all speed immediately transport his soul into heaven. Souls being once in heaven, remain ther• till the last day of judgement, where they partly magnify the name of God, and partly do wait and pray for the consummation of the kingdom of glory, and full felicity in body and soul. Reu. 5. 8. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the Saints: 9. And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, because thou wast killed, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tong, and people, and nation.