An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Again, Though death it self did not instantly seize upon him, yet the symptoms of death, and tokens of mortality did. Fear and shame, pains and distempers, sweat and weariness quickly showed themselves as so many harbingers or forerunners of his approaching dissolution: we see and feel death in these, before we see or feel death it self. These bid us prepare our bodies for the grave, and our souls for heaven.

Again, Though death it self did not instantly seize upon him, yet the symptoms of death, and tokens of mortality did. Fear and shame, pains and distempers, sweat and wearinesse quickly shewed themselves as so many harbingers or forerunners of his approaching dissolution: we see and feel death in these, before we see or feel death it self. These bid us prepare our bodies for the grave, and our souls for heaven.

Secondly, Others reason thus, Christ hath delivered his people, the elect, from all that punishment, which the sin of Adam did contract and deserve; but Christ hath not delivered his elect, his own people, from turning to the dust. Godly men die as well as the ungodly, believers as well as infidels, therefore (say they) the death of the body was not procured by sin.

I answer, Whatsoever is an evil in death, Christ hath delivered his people from; he hath taken away all that from death, which is punishment or annoyance, though death be not taken away. Christ hath freed us from the effects of sin, as he hath freed us from sin it self, that is, from their prevalence and dominion over us, not from their presence or being in and upon us. Hence the Apostle (1 Cor. 15.) triumpheth over death, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? As if he had said, Death once had a power over man to sting him to death, death once had a victorious power, and would have bin the great