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

Quest. 6. Moreover canst thou not truly say, that Christs friends; so far as thou knowest them, are thy friends, and that which is against him, thou takest as against thy self? If so, undoubtedly, thy enemies also are to him as his enemies, and he will lay them at thy feet. Thy troubles are as his troubles, and in all thy afflictions he is as careful of thy good, as if he himself were thereby afflicted. Fear not those enemies that Christ takes as his own. It is he that is engaged to overcome them.

Quest. 6. Moreover canst thou not truly say, that Christs friends; so far as thou knowest them, are thy friends, and that whinh is against him, thou takest as against thy self? If so, undoubtedly, thy enemies also are to him as his enemies, and he will lay them at thy feet. Thy troubles are as his troubles, and in all thy afflictions he is as careful of thy good, as if he himself were thereby afflicted. Fear not those enemies that Christ takes as his own. It is he that is engaged to overcome them.

And now when Conscience it self beareth witness, that thus it is with thy soul, and that thou wouldst fain be what God would have thee be, and desirest nothing more then to be more like him, and nearer to him, and desirest no kind of life so much, as that in which thou mayest be most serviceable to him: Consider what a wrong it is then to Christ, and to the honour of his Covenant and grace, and to thy poor dejected soul, that thou shouldst lie questioning his love and thy part in him, and looking about for matter of accusation or causeless suspicion against his spirit working in thee? and that thou shouldst cast away the joy of the Lord which is thy strength, and gratify the enemy of thy peace? When sickness is upon thee, and death draws nigh, thou ⟨p. 120⟩shouldst then with joy lift up thy head, because thy warfare is almost accomplished, and thy Saviour ready to deliver thee the Crown. Is this a time to fear and mourn, when thou art entering into endless joy? Is it a time of lamentation, when thou art almost at thy journeys end, ready to see thy Saviours face, and to take thy place in the Heavenly Jerusalem, amongst those millions of holy souls that are gone before thee? Is it seemly for thee to lament thus at the door, when they are feasted with such unconceivable joys within? Dost thou know what thy Brethren are now enjoying, and what the heavenly Host are doing? how full they are of God and how they are ravished with his Light and Love? and canst thou think it seemly to be so unlike them, that are passing to them? I know there is such difference between imperfection and perfection, and between earth and heaven, that it justifieth our moderate sorrows, and commandeth us to take up infinitely short of their delights, till we are with them. But yet let there not be too great a disproportion between the members of Jesus Christ. We have the same Lord, and the same Spirit, and all that is theirs in possession, is in right and title ours. They are our elder brethren, and being at age, have possession of the inheritance: but we that are yet in the lap of the Church on earth, our