The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

2 Remember that thy abode here is but the second degree of thy life: for after thou hadst first lived nine Months in thy Mothers Womb, thou wast of necessity driven thence to live here in a second degree of life. And when that number of months which God hath determined for this life, are expired; thou must likewise leave this, ¹and pass to a third degree in the other world, which never ends. Which to them that live and die in the Lord, surpasseth as far this kind of life, as this doth that which one lives in his Mothers Womb. To this last and excellentest degree of life, through this door passed Christ himself, and all his Saints that were before thee: and so shall all the rest after them and thee. Why shouldst thou fear that which is common to all God's Elect? Why should that be uncouth to thee, which was so welcome to all them? Fear not death, for as it is the Exodus ⟨p. 427⟩of a bad, ²so it is the Genesis of a better World: the end of a temporal, but the beginning of an eternal life.

2 Remember that thy abode here is but the second degree of thy life: for after thou hadst first lived nine Months in thy Mothers Womb, thou wast of necessity driven thence to live here in a second degree of life. And when that number of months which God hath determined for this life, are expired; thou must likewise leave this, ¹and pass to a third degree in the other world, which never ends. Which to them that live and die in the Lord, surpasseth as far this kind of life, as this doth that which one lives in his Mothers Womb. To this last and excellentest degree of life, through this door passed Christ himself, and all his Saints that were before thee: and so shall all the rest after them and thee. Why shouldst thou fear that which is common to all God's Elect? Why should that be uncouth to thee, which was so welcom to all them? Fear not death, for as it is the Exodus ⟨p. 427⟩of a bad, ²