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

1 Cor. 15. 26. The last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death.

DEATH is the occasion of this days meeting: and Death may be the Subject of our present Meditations. I must speak of that which will shortly silence me; and you must hear of that which will speedily stop your ears▪ and we must spend this hour on that which waits to cut our thread▪ and take down our glass, and end our time, and tell us we have spent our last. But as it hath now done good by doing hurt, so are we to consider, of the accidental benefits, as well as of the natural evil, from which the heavenly wisdom doth […] them. Death-hath now bereaved a body of its Soul; but thereby it hath sent that […] ⟨p. 2⟩to Christ; where it hath now experience how good it is to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 8. It hath separated a faithful wife from a beloved husband: but it hath sent her to a husband dearlier beloved; and taught her now by experience to say, That to be with Christ is best of all, Phil. 1. 23. It hath deprived a sorrowful husband of a wife, & deprived us all of a faithful friend: but it hath thereby brought us to the house of mourning, which is better for us than the house of teasting, (a Paradox to the flesh, but an undoubted truth:) for here we may see the end of all men, and we that are yet living may lay it to our hearts, Eceles. 7. 2, 3. Yes, it hath brought us to the house of God; and occasioned this serious address to his Holiness, that we may be instructed by his Word, as we are warned by his Works; and that we may be wise to understand, and to consider our latter end, Deut. 32. 29.