An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

There is a four-fold rest which we obtain in death. First, A rest from labour and travail, no working there. Secondly, There is a rest from trouble and oppression, no wars, no bloody battles there. Thirdly, There is a rest from passion, no sorrow, no grief shall afflict us there. In the grave there is a fourth rest better then all these, a rest from sin, a rest from the drudgery of Satan, a rest from the winnowings and buffetings of Satan; a rest from the law of our members, warring against the law of our minds. When Saul went to the witch of Endor for advise with Samuel, that Samuel, or the Devil in the appearance of Samuel, speaks as one disturbed being raised from the grave; Why, (saith he,) hast thou disquieted me to bring me up, 1 Sam. 28.15. I was at rest, why diddest thou call me up to a land of trouble? It is the observation of an ancient Father, and the resolution of an ancient Council, concerning Christs weeping over Lazarus, Joh. 11.¹ That not his death, but his rising drew those tears. When Christ came to the grave where Lazarus lay, the Text saith that Jesus wept. Why did Christ weep saith Jerome, in comforting a mother that had lost her daughter? It is clear that Christ wept over Lazarus that was dead, but he did not weep thy tears; Christ did not weep because Lazarus was dead, but he wept rather because Lazarus was to be raised up again; he wept to think that his friend Lazarus should be brought back into so troublesome a world. And it was the resolution of the third Toletane Council, ⟨p. 404⟩that Christ did not weep over Lazarus because he was dead,² but because he was to be raised up again to feel the burdens and afflictions of this life: that was their apprehension of it. And it is a truth, that whosoever lives the common life of nature, lives in trouble: But such is not the life of him who is raised from the dead: The lives of such though here upon the earth, must needs lye out of the common course: And what their condition is, is such a secret as we cannot understand but by enjoying it.

There is a foure-fold rest which we obtaine in death. First, A rest from labour and travaile, no working there. Secondly, There is a rest from trouble and oppression, no warres, no bloody battels there. Thirdly, There is a rest from passion, no sorrow, no griefe shall afflict us there. In the grave there is a fourth rest better then all these, a rest from sin, a rest from the drudgerie of Satan, a rest from the winnowings and buffetings of Satan; a rest from the law of our members, warring against the law of our minds. When Saul went to the witch of Endor for advise with Samuel, that Samuel, or the Devill in the appearance of Samuel, speakes as one disturb'd being raised from the grave; Why, (saith he,) hast thou disquieted me to bring me up,