Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…

Now, if we will vigorously appear for God, against a sinful generation, how many will appear against us? how bitterly will they reproach us? how falsely will they slander us, and say all manner of evil against us? and it is well if we scape the violence of their hands! and what should be our joy in all these sufferings, but that Great is our reward in Heaven! Matth. 11. 12.

Now, if we will vigorously appear for God, against a sinful generation, how many will appear against us? how bitterly will they reproach us? how falsly will they slander us, and say all manner of evil against us? and it is well if we scape the violence of their hands! and what should be our joy in all these sufferings, but that Great is our reward in Heaven! Matth. 11. 12.

Alas! how are we continually here annoyed, by the presence, and the motions and the success of sin in our selves and others! It dwelleth in us night and day; we cannot get it to stay behind, no, not when we address our selves to God; not in our public worship, or our secret prayers: not for the space of one Lords Day, or one Sermon, or one Sacrament; in ordinary or extraordinary duty. O what a blessed day and duty would it be, ⟨p. 94⟩in which we could leave our sin behind us; and converse with God in spotless innocency, and worship and adore him without that darkness, and strangeness, and unbelief, and dullness, and doubtings, and distractions, that are now our daily miseries? Can we have grace and not be weary of these corruptions? Can we have life, and not be pained with these diseases? And can we live in daily pain and weariness, and not be willing of release? Is there a gracious soul, that groaneth not under the burden of these miseries? yea, in every prayer, what do we else but confess them, and lament them, and groan for help, and for deliverance? And yet shall we fear our day of freedom, and be loth that Death should bring us news, that our prayers are heard, and our groans have reached up to heaven, and that the bonds of flesh and sin shall be dissolved, and we shall have need to watch, and strive, and fear, and complain, and sigh, and weep no more? Shall the face of death discourage us from desiring such a blessed day? When we have so full assurance, that at last this enemy also shall be destroyed? The Lord heal and pardon the Hypocrisy of our complaints, together with the unbelief and cowardliness of our Souls! Do we speak so much, and hear so much, and