Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

1. Be persuaded to Prize it; it is a Privilege that was purchased for you at a dear rate, even with the precious Blood of Christ. Oh what a blessed Privilege is this, not only to be delivered from the second Death, but also from the servile and enthralling fear of the first Death! This is the benefit and blessing that the Apostle Paul seems to be so much affected with: Thanks be to God (says he) who hath given us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ: What Victory doth he mean? The foregoing words tell us,¹ that he means a Victory over Death, with all its fearful concomitants and consequents. Death is become a Friend, and not an Enemy; 'tis without any Sting or Curse attending of it: Oh! this is owing to Jesus Christ, he is the great Deliverer; he hath so ordered the matter, that though we must dye, yet we shall not be ⟨image 49⟩in bondage all our days, through a slavish Fear of Death.

1. Be perswaded to Prize it; it is a Priviledge that was purchas'd for you at a dear rate, even with the precious Blood of Christ. Oh what a blessed Priviledge is this, not only to be delivered from the second Death, but also from the servile and enthralling fear of the first Death! This is the benefit and blessing that the Apostle Paul seems to be so much affected with: Thanks be to God (says he) who hath given us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ: What Victory doth he mean? The foregoing words tell us,¹ that he means a Victory over Death, with all its fearful concomitants and consequents. Death is become a Friend, and not an Enemy; 'tis without any Sting or Curse attending of it: Oh! this is owing to Jesus Christ, he is the great Deliverer; he hath so order'd the matter, that though we must dye, yet we shall not be ⟨image 49⟩in bondage all our dayes, through a slavish Fear of Death.

1. 11 Cor. 15.5•.