But the greatest trial of trust, is in our last encounter with death, wherein we shall find not only a deprivation of all comforts in this life, but a confluence 1of all ill at once, but we must know, God will be the God of his unto death, and not only unto death, but in death. We may trust God the Father with our bodies and souls which he hath created; and God the Son, with the bodies and souls which he hath redeemed; and the holy Spirit, with those bodies and souls that he hath sanctified. We are not disquieted when we put off our clothes and go to bed, because we trust Gods ordinary providence to raise us up again. And why should we be disquieted when we put off our bodies, and sleep our last sleep, considering ⟨p. 403⟩we are more sure to rise out of […] graves, then out of our beds. Nay, we are raised up already in Christ our •d: who is the resurrection and the life, 2in whom we may triumph over death, that triumpheth over the greatest Mo•chs, as a disarmed and conquered enemy. Death is the death of it self, and not of us. If we would have faith ready to die by, we must exercise it well in living by it, and then it will no more fail us, then the good things we lay hold on by it, until it hath brought […] into heaven, where that office of it is •aid aside: here is the prerogative of a true Christian above an hypocrite and a worldling, when as their trust, and the thing they trust in, fails them, then a true believers trust stands him in greatest stead.
But the greatest triall of trust, is in our last encounter with death, wherein we shall finde not only a deprivation of all comforts in this life, but a confluence 1of all ill at once, but wee must know, God will be the God of his unto death, and not only unto death, but in death. We may trust God the Father with our bodies and soules which he hath created; and God the Sonne, with the bodies and soules which he hath redeemed; and the holy Spirit, with those bodies and soules that he hath sanctified. We are not disquieted when wee put off our cloathes and goe to bed, because we trust Gods ordinary providence to raise us up againe. And why should we be disquieted when we put off our bodies, and sleep our last sleep, considering ⟨p. 403⟩we are more sure to rise out of 〈…〉 graves, then out of our beds. Nay, we are raised up already in Christ our •d: who is the resurrection and the life, 2in whom we may triumph over death, that triumpheth over the greatest Mo•chs, as a disarmed and conquered enemie. Death is the death of it selfe, and not of us. If we would have faith ready to die by, wee must exercise it well in living by it, and then it will no more faile us, then the good things we lay hold on by it, untill it hath brought 〈…〉 into heaven, where that office of it is •aid aside: here is the prerogative of a true Christian above an hypocrite and a worldling, when as their trust, and the thing they trust in, failes them, then a true beleevers trust stands him in greatest stead.
- 1Comfort in the hour of death.Comfort in the houre of death.
- 2Joh. 11. 25Ioh. 11. 25
