Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

It is reported of Mezentius the Hetrurian Tyrant, that he devised this torment, to chain a live man, and a dead man together, and so wheresoever he went, he should have the dead man to rot before him, and stink in his nostrils, till he was poisoned with it: Surely this was a great misery, a most grievous death: And Gods people should count it as great an evil to have filthy dead wretches, that are unsavoury in any thing that is good, to be joined with them: David prays in Psal. 26. 9. Gather not my soul with sinners: Would you not have your souls gathered with sinners hereafter? for the present take heed of joining with them. It was the prayer once that I have heard of a good Gentlewoman, when she was to dye, being in much trouble of conscience, O Lord, let me not go to hell where the wicked are, for Lord thou knowest, I never loved their company here: She prayed with David, Lord gather not my soul with sinners: If you would have evidence that God will not gather your souls to sinners, but that he ⟨p. 309⟩will gather them to the godly, labour to satisfy your souls with Gods people.

It is reported of Mezentius the Hetrurian Tyrant, that he devised this torment, to chain a live man, and a dead man together, and so wheresoever he went, he should have the dead man to rot before him, and stink in his nostrils, till he was poysoned with it: Surely this was a great misery, a most grievous death: And Gods people should count it as great an evil to have filthy dead wretches, that are unsavoury in any thing that is good, to be joyned with them: David prays in Psal. 26. 9. Gather not my soul with sinners: Would you not have your souls gathered with sinners hereafter? for the present take heed of joyning with them. It was the prayer once that I have heard of a good Gentlewoman, when she was to dye, being in much trouble of conscience, O Lord, let me not go to hell where the wicked are, for Lord thou knowest, I never loved their company here: She prayed with David, Lord gather not my soul with sinners: If you would have evidence that God will not gather your souls to sinners, but that he ⟨p. 309⟩will gather them to the godly, labor to satisfie your souls with Gods people.