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Is any thing sweeter than life? Yes, death to a believer: That of Solomon holds best in this case, the day of death is better than the day of birth: It is transcendently so to a Child of God, who is conveyed by death into his Fathers presence, where he shall dwell for ever: The passage is dark, ¹but it shall be quick and speedy; Thou wilt show me the path of life; the path of life lieth through the grave, but Christ hath gone it already, and will take the believer by the hand, and lead him through it into the Presence-chamber of the King of glory, where he shall hear the Bridegrooms voice, and his joy shall be fulfilled; then tremble thou not believer at the approach of death, but go forth and meet him with this friendly salutation, Come in thou blessed of the Lord; Art thou come to fetch me to my Father? Welcome death! thou art my best friend next to Jesus Christ: Death is only my passage into a blessed eternity. Death is Joseph's Chariot, not to carry the Saints down into Egypt, but up into Canaan, and how quickly doth he carry a believer thither? It is but winking, and he is at home; as soon as the eye of the body is closed here, the eye of the soul is open there (O blessed vision!) to behold at once all the glories of eternity! Say then (with Jacob) Jesus, my Lord and Redeemer, is yet alive, and seated on the Throne at the right hand of the Majesty on high, there proclaiming in the cars of all his trembling followers, ²I am he that liveth, and was dead: and behold, I live for evermore. Amen, and have the keys of hell and death. Fear not, O thou believer, to say with Jacob, I will go and see him, not before I dye, but I will dye, that I may go and see him: Death is but the flames that must singe asunder the cords of thy mortality; the hand that shall open the Cage, that thy soul may get loose, and take her flight for the Mountain of Spices, the glorious immortality and liberty of the Sons of God.

Is any thing sweeter than life? Yes, death to a believer: That of Solomon holds best in this case, the day of death is better than the day of birth: It is transcendently so to a Child of God, who is conveighed by death into his Fathers presence, where he shall dwell for ever: The passage is dark, ¹but it shall be quick and speedy; Thou wilt shew me the path of life; the path of life lieth through the grave, but Christ hath gone it already, and will take the believer by the hand, and lead him through it into the Presence-chamber of the King of glory, where he shall hear the Bridegrooms voice, and his joy shall be fulfilled; then tremble thou not believer at the approach of death, but go forth and meet him with this friendly salutation, Come in thou blessed of the Lord; Art thou come to fetch me to my Father? Welcome death! thou art my best friend next to Jesus Christ: Death is only my passage into a blessed eternity. Death is Joseph's Chariot, not to carry the Saints down into Egypt, but up into Canaan, and how quickly doth he carry a believer thither? It is but winking, and he is at home; as soon as the eye of the body is closed here, the eye of the soul is open there (O blessed vision!) to behold at once all the glories of eternity! Say then (with Jacob) Jesus, my Lord and Redeemer, is yet alive, and seated on the Throne at the right hand of the Majesty on high, there proclaiming in the cars of all his trembling followers,