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…

(First,) From the sting of death. He hath not delivered us from the stroke of death, but he hath from the sting of death. When the sting is out, the serpent may hiss, but he cannot sting. Death will put you into the possession of that which Christ hath provided for you: so that death now is become desirable, now there is beauty in it. There is no friend can do that for you, that death can do. It will at once deliver you from sin and Satan, and give you a possession in heaven. The Apostle, looking upon death through Christ, longs for death: having a desire to depart &c. Phil. 1. 23. This great robber, through Christ is become our greatest gain. That which would have marred us for ⟨p. 127⟩ever, will now make us for ever. O that this King of terrors should become desirable, what a mercy is this! O my beloved, did you know what the terrors of death be to an enlightened sinner, you would account it a great privilege to be free from the sting of death. When all his comforts are taking their everlasting farewell of him, you would account it a great salvation then. When he shall feel death putting in his cold hands, and pulling out his heart, when he s•ail see his house of his body falling down about his ears, and he cannot stay there any longer: and he sees the hell-hounds stand about him and waiting upon him to carry him to Hell, O what horror doth this work upon his heart! this hath Christ delivered us from. Death hath lest its sting in Christ, it can hurt us no longer.

(First,) From the sting of death. He hath not delivered us from the stroke of death, but he hath from the sting of death. When the sting is out, the serpent may hisse, but he cannot sting. Death will put you into the possession of that which Christ hath provided for you: so that death now is become desirable, now there is beauty in it. There is no friend can do that for you, that death can do. It will at once deliver you from sin and Satan, and give you a possession in heaven. The Apostle, looking upon death through Christ, longs for death: having a desire to depart &c. Phil. 1. 23. This great robber, through Christ is become our greatest gain. That which would have marr'd us for ⟨p. 127⟩