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

For it is the Messenger of the Almighty. The Commanders must obey it: The Conquerors must be conquered by it. The Rich cannot bribe it: The Learned Orator cannot persuade it to pass him by. The skilful Physician cannot save himself from the mortal stroke. Neither fields nor gardens, earth or sea affordeth any medicine to prevent it. All have sinned, and all must die: Dust we are, and to dust we must return, Gen. 3. 19. And thus should we remain, if the Lord of Life should not revive us.

For it is the Messenger of the Almighty. The Commanders must obey it: The Conquerours must be conquered by it. The Rich cannot bribe it: The Learned Orator cannot perswade it to pass him by. The skilful Physician cannot save himself from the mortal stroke. Neither fields nor gardens, earth or sea affordeth any medicine to prevent it. All have sinned, and all must die: Dust we are, and to dust we must return, Gen. 3. 19. And thus should we remain, if the Lord of Life should not revive us.

2. And it is not only to the Body, but to the Soul also that Death is naturally an Enemy. The Soul hath naturally a Love and Inclination to its Body: and therefore it feareth a Separation before, and desireth a Restoration afterward. Abstracting Joy and Torment, ⟨p. 8⟩Heaven and Hell, in our consideration, the state of Separation as such, is a natural evil: even to the humane Soul of Christ it was so, while his Body remained in the grave: which separated state is the Hades, that our English calleth Hell, that Christ is said to have gone into. And though (the Soul of Christ, and) the souls of those that die in him, do pass into a far more happy state, than they had in flesh, yet that is accidentally, from Rewarding Justice, and the Bounty of the Lord, and not at all from Death as Death: the separation as such is still an evil. And therefore the Soul is still desirous of the Bodies Resurrection, and knoweth that its felicity will then be greater, when the re-union, and glorification hath perfected the whole man. So that Death as Death is unwelcome to the soul it self, though Death as accidentally gainful may be desired.