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

so was David, and Paul, and all the Saints, a while ago: yea and Christ himself. Am I beset with sin, and compassed with infirmities, and racked by my own distempered passion? so were the many saints now glorified, but the other day Elijah was a man subject (saith James,) to like passions as we are, James 5. 17. Am I maliced by dissenting adversaries? Do they privily lay snares for me, and watch my halting, and seek advantage against my name, and liberty and life? so did they by David, and many other now with Christ? But now these enemies are overcome. Art thou under pains, and consuming sicknesses? are thine eyes held waking; and doth trouble and sorrow wast thy spirits? doth thy flesh and thy heart fail thee, and thy friends prove silly comforters to thee? So was it with those thousands that are now in Heaven, where the night of calamities is past, and the just have dominion in the morning; and glory, hath banished all their griefs, and joys have made them forget their sorrows; unless as the remembrance of them doth promote ⟨p. 122⟩those joys. Are thy friends lamenting thee, and grieved to see the signs of thy approaching death? do they weep when they see thy pale face, and consumed body, and when they hear thy sighs and groans? Why thus it was once with the millions that are now triumphing with their Lord? They lay in sickness, and underwent the pains, and were lamented by their friends, as as thou art now. Even Christ himself was once in his agony, and some shake the head at him, and others pitied him, who should rather have wept for themselves, than for him. This is but the passage from the womb of mortality, into the life of immortality, which all the Saints have past before thee, that are now with Christ. Dost thou fear the dreadful face of death? Must thy tender flesh be turned to rottenness and dust? and must thou lie in darkness till the Resurrection, and thy body remain as the Common earth? And is not this the case of all those millions, whose souls now see the face of Christ? Did they not lie as thou dost, and die as thou must, and pass by death to the life which they have now attained? O then commit thy soul to Christ, and be quiet and comforted in his care and love. Trust him as the Mid-wife of thy departing soul, who will bring it safe into the light and life, which ⟨p. 123⟩thou are yet such a stranger to.