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…

Observe from this description of the grave,

That the statutes of death are unrepealable.

Death is an everlasting banishment from the world, I shall go• whence I shall not return. This may lie very sad upon their spirits,¹ who have not a better place then the world to go to, when they go from the world. To go whence we shall never return, and yet where we cannot endure to be a moment, is deepest misery: Such a man cannot choose but set out with a sad heart. And that's the reason why wicked men, whose consciences are awakened, go so unwillingly to this sleep, they know whither they are going, only they know they cannot return. Make ye friends ('tis Christs counsel) of the Mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations (Luk. 10.9.) Mammon of unrighteousness, that is, say most Interpreters, Mammon gotten unrighteously; but surely Christ would not teach any to make men our friends, by that which makes God our enemy.² They translate better, who render it, Make ye friends of the false or unfaithful Mammon, that is, of that Mammon which will deceive and leave you shortly, therefore make you friends of it, while you have it; that when ye fail, that is, when you die or go out of the world, they may receive you, that is, ye may be received into everlasting habitations; leave not this habitation, till ye have got interest in a better. The Saints arm themselves against death by this argument, We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hand, eternal in the heavens (