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

What was it that that rejoiced thee all thy life, in thy prayers, and sufferings, and labours? was it not the hopes of heaven? And was Heaven the spring and motive of thy obedience, and the comfort of thy life? and yet wilt thou pass into it with heaviness? and shall thy approaches to it be thy sorrows? Didst thou pray for that which thou wouldst not have? Hast thou laboured for it, and denied thy self the pleasures of the world for it? and now art thou afraid to enter in? Fear not, poor soul! Thy Lord is there; Thy husband, and thy head, and life is there. Thou hast more there, a thousand fold more, than thou hast here. Here thou must leave poor mourning friends, that languish in their own infirmities, and troubled thee as well as comforted thee, while thou wast with them, and that are hasting after thee, and will shortly overtake thee. But there thou shalt find the souls of all the blessed Saints, that have lived since the Creation till this age: that are all unclothed of the rags of their mortality, and have laid by their frailties with their flesh, and are made up of holiness, and prepared for joy, and will be suitable ⟨p. 124⟩companions for thee in thy joys. Why shouldst thou be afraid to go the way that all the Saints have gone before thee? Where there is one on earth, how many are there in Heaven? and one of them is worth many of us. Art thou better then Noah, and Abraham, and David? then Peter and Paul and all the Saints? Or dost thou not love their names, and wouldst thou not be with them? Art thou loath to leave thy friends on earth? And hast thou not far better and more in heaven? Why then art thou not as loath to stay from them? Suppose that I, and such as I, were the friends that thou art loath to leave: What if we had dyed long before thee? If it be our company that thou lovest, thou shouldst then be willing to die, that thou mayst be with us. And if so, why then shouldst thou not be more willing to die, and be with Christ and all his holy ones, that are so much more excellent than we? Wouldst thou have our company? Remove then willingly to that place, where thou shalt have it to everlasting: and be not so loath to go from hence, where neither thou nor we can stay. Hadst thou rather travel with us, than dwell with us? And rather here suffer with us, than reign in Heaven with Christ and us?

What was it that that rejoyced thee all thy life, in thy prayers, and sufferings, and labours? was it not the hopes of heaven? And was Heaven the spring and motive of thy obedience, and the comfort of thy life? and yet wilt thou pass into it with heaviness? and shall thy approaches to it be thy sorrows? Didst thou pray for that which thou wouldst not have? Hast thou laboured for it, and denyed thy self the pleasures of the world for it? and now art thou afraid to enter in? Fear not, poor soul! Thy Lord is there; Thy husband, and thy head, and life is there. Thou hast more there, a thousand fold more, than thou hast here. Here thou must leave poor mourning friends, that languish in their own infimities, and troubled thee as well as comforted thee, while thou wast with them, and that are hasting after thee, and will shortly overtake thee. But there thou shalt find the souls of all the blessed Saints, that have lived since the Creation till this age: that are all uncloathed of the rags of their mortality, and have laid by their frailties with their flesh, and are made up of holiness, and prepard for joy, and will be suitable