Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Think but with your selves you that are ancient, if you were to die, whether you are able to say thus as Christ did, for so you may say in your measure, though not so perfectly as Christ did Father glorify me with thy self, I have finished the work thou hast given me to do; Thou knowest it hath bin my care in the days of my poor pilgrimage, to finish this great work thou gavest me to finish in this world, O! How sweet will death be to such an one that shall die so.

Think but with your selves you that are ancient, if you were to die, whether you are able to say thus as Christ did, for so you may say in your measure, though not so perfectly as Christ did Father glorifie me with thy selfe, I have finished the work thou hast given me to do; Thou knowest it hath bin my care in the daies of my poor pilgrimage, to finish this great work thou gavest me to finish in this world, O! How sweet wil death be to such an one that shal die so.

ESE 3

One word to you that are young, (and so I have done all) Is it such a crown of Glory to be found Old in the ways of righteousness? Do you then begin to be Godly betimes, that if you live in this world you may have this crown set upon your heads when you are ancient, for is it not better for you to be plants of Gods house, then weeds upon the dunghill, Those that are wicked are but as weeds upon a dunghill, but you that are Godly are as plants in Gods own orchard in the last of the Romans, ⟨p. 451⟩3. We find that Andronicus and Junia are commended, because they were in Christ before saint Paul, They were in Christ before me. It is an honourable thing to be in Christ before others, this is honourable when you are young, and then going on in the ways of Godliness all your young time, and so in your middle age, and till you come to be Old. Here in my text you have this crown prepared for you, for so saith the Holy Ghost here, The hoary head is a crown of Glory, if it be found in the ways of righteousness.