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

Many afflictions to our sense are worse then death. They long for death, because they are in misery. It is said, and it is a truth, O death how bitter art thou to a man that is at ease in his possessions! And there is a truth also in this, O death how sweet art thou to a man, that is bitter in his soul! It often falls out, that to die, is but a short affliction, but affliction many times is a long and a continued death, a frequent death, as the Apostle speaks of his afflictions, in deaths often, (2 Cor. 11.23.) That there is a bitterness in death, the speech of Agag implies, (1 Sam. 15.) Surely the bitterness of death is past: Yet while a man (as lamenting Jeremiah complains, Lam. 3.19.) Remembers his afflictions, and his misery, the wormwood and the gall, that is, his afflictions and misery, more bitter then gall and wormwood, his sense overcomes ⟨p. 451⟩his judgement, to conclude, that there is a pleasantness in that bitter thing, which we call death. Secondly observe, That

Many afflictions to our sense are worse then death. They long for death, because they are in misery. It is said, and it is a truth, O death how bitter art thou to a man that is at ease in his possessions! And there is a truth also in this, O death how sweet art thou to a man, that is bitter in his soule! It often falls out, that to die, is but a short affliction, but affliction many times is a long and a continued death, a frequent death, as the Apostle speakes of his afflictions, in deaths often, (2 Cor. 11.23.) That there is a bitternesse in death, the speech of Agag implies, (1 Sam. 15.) Surely the bitternesse of death is past: Yet while a man (as lamenting Jeremie complaines, Lam. 3.19.) Remembers his afflictions, and his misery, the wormewood and the gall, that is, his afflictions and misery, more bitter then gall and wormewood, his sense overcomes ⟨p. 451⟩