Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

4. Be the death of your sins, that they may not fasten like Hell-hounds upon you, when you are most helpless. Mortify your corruptions, and then the bitterness of Death is past. Sin is the sting of Death, that makes it dreadful, that makes it hurtful; O do not arm your enemy against you, death cannot hurt you, but by the weapons that you put into its hands by your sins; if Sin be dead, death is conquered. This is the top of misery, when sin and death shall sly upon a poor creature together, when death, as the unclean Spirit, taking with him seven other Spirits worse than himself, shall set a man's Sins all upon him, and besides the terror of its own appalling looks, shall show him the more ghastly, and affrighting faces of those Fiends and Furies, his unpardoned sins; this is the sting of death, and makes that the King of terrors.

4. Be the death of your sins, that they may not fasten like Hell-hounds upon you, when you are most helpless. Mortifie your corruptions, and then the bitterness of Death is past. Sin is the sting of Death, that makes it dreadful, that makes it hurtful; O do not arm your enemy against you, death cannot hurt you, but by the weapons that you put into its hands by your sins; if Sin be dead, death is conquered. This is the top of misery, when sin and death shall sly upon a poor creature together, when death, as the unclean Spirit, taking with him seven other Spirits worse than himself, shall set a man's Sins all upon him, and besides the terrour of its own apaling looks, shall shew him the more ghastly, and affrighting faces of those Fiends and Furies, his unpardoned sins; this is the sting of death, and makes that the King of terrours.

5. Observe the approaches of your enemy daily, and remember that you are for ought you know, more than half dead already. Let not grey hairs be here and there upon you, and ⟨image 7⟩you know it not; observe all the warnings of death, and consider in all your pains and infirmities, that these are but twitches, and items from death. How often is death knocking at your doors? Death hath a great part of you already in possession; whatsoever is past, is death's; and how little, how very little is to come, God knows; sure I am, nothing is yours but the present time. Christians, shall Death get ground upon you every day, and be marching up towards you, and will not you provide accordingly, and make preparations for it every day? as Death comes daily towards you, do you labour to make it good against Death. Let your fortifications go on daily, let some breach be made up; let somewhat be mended every day, forget not that holy Counsel to meditate every evening, that seeing thy days are numbered, there is one more of thy number spent, and thou art now nearer to thy end by a day.