Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

2. Set aside those that die stupid, without any awakenings of Conscience, any sense or concernedness about their spiritual state, and so die as much like Beasts as they lived.

3. Those that die despairing, filled with horror, and void of hope; overwhelmed with the sense of sin, the thoughts of approaching vengeance, and a fearful expectation of appearing before the Tribunal of that righteous God, whom they cannot escape, and dare not trust. They have not hearts to pray to him, hope in him, or commit their Souls into his hands when they die, having never loved, nor served, nor regarded him while they lived.

3. Those that die despairing, fill'd with horror, and void of hope; overwhelmed with the sense of sin, the thoughts of approaching vengeance, and a fearful expectation of appearing before the Tribunal of that righteous God, whom they cannot escape, and dare not trust. They have not hearts to pray to him, hope in him, or commit their Souls into his hands when they die, having never loved, nor served, nor regarded him while they lived.

4. Those that die presuming. Such are the ignorant before mentioned; such are Formalists, Moralists, proud Pharisees, conceited self-justifiers. The Innocency of their Conversation, the Profession they make, or the Duties they perform, are the righteousness by which they expect to be justified. Nay, how many after a Life of sin hope to be saved, merely by the mercy of God, without respect to any righteousness at all, either of Justification, or Sanctification; either imputed to them, or inherent in them; either that whereby they may have a title to glory, or meetness for it? Sure I am, such as these are void of repentance; and when the greatest part of dying Sinners may be reduced to one or other of these sorts, to how few doth God